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When a Bank Fails, People ‘Lose Faith’ in the Auditors

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Are bank failures bad PR for the firms that audit them? bank customers — find it difficult to trust auditors when those auditors have been associated with a failed bank. Via KU (Kentucky University) News : The word “audit” has a different meaning depending on whether you’re an individual or a bank.

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Friday Footnotes: Tim Ryan Works Too Hard; Fake CPA Gets Violent Over QuickBooks Files; PwC PR | 10.20.23

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Tennessee’s largest CPA firm announces expansion into Kentucky [ The Tennessean ] One of the Nashville area’s top-ranked business consulting firms is expanding its services to Kentucky. Audit & Assurance professionals in their daily tasks and decision-making processes.

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Friday Footnotes: EY Doesn’t Regret a Return to Office; Consulting Cut Backs; AI Will Not Replace Accountants | 8.11.23

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MCM CPAs & Advisors Joins Cherry Bekaert [ PR Newswire ] Cherry Bekaert (the Firm) is pleased to announce the completion of an acquisition transaction with MCM CPAs & Advisors LLP (MCM), a large regional accounting and advisory firm headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, providing highly specialized services to a broad range of clients.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Eff You, Pay Us; Let’s Complain About Auditing Again; RIP to a Real One | 8.14.23

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When you woke up this morning did you let out a big yawn and then ask yourself “how can audit firms respond to ongoing regulatory scrutiny?” PCAOB staff expects approximately 40% of the audits reviewed in 2022 will have one or more deficiencies, up from 34% in 2021 and 29% in 2020. Who’s gonna tell them?

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Friday Footnotes: Fired Accountant Spills the Dirty Laundry; Scandals of Yore; Gen AI For Good | 1.26.24

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Long Read Corporate Self-Oversight [ The American Prospect ] Four auditing firms examine the books of nearly every big U.S. How AI is transforming audit [ Thomson Reuters ] In the past, auditors have heavily relied on manual processes to uncover risks in financial statements and business operations. AI Is your firm keeping pace?

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