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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Capping Busy Season Hours FTW; Open the Books on Audit Firms? | 4.15.24

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The audit opinions they issue typically have meaning and value because the firms operate with public trust. In the public company audit arena, this transparency is maintained through PCAOB inspections of auditors. In the public company audit arena, this transparency is maintained through PCAOB inspections of auditors.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Deloitte Refutes a Demand Shift; Firm Data Breach; KPMG’s New AI Partner | 4.24.23

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The study found that audit firms “are significantly more likely to remove” a partner from a continuing engagement when the partner issued an adverse internal control opinion in the previous year. Such problem is tied to the client-pay audit model, which critics say produces inherent conflicts of interest.

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Car Vending Machine Company Carvana Goes Up Against Wall Street

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For example, as reported by Forbes, auditor Grant Thornton wrote that “management believes” it can meet its financial obligations through February 2021. Oklahoma City, and Memphis. Our cohort growth was broad based with many markets crossing key milestones.”. Ontario (L.A.), It is only part of a stepped-up marketing effort.

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What’s new in sales tax?

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It did, but the South Carolina Department of Revenue later audited Amazon and found that it had failed to adequately tax sales by third-party merchants. Auditors slapped Amazon with some $12.5 Oklahoma Gov. million in taxes, penalties and interest for the first three months of 2016. sales tax on groceries.

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Friday Footnotes: An Outsourcing Shortage Now Too?; Finally, Some Disruption; PwC Haters Celebrate Government Inquiry | 3.17.23

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Audit Deloitte Hit by Record China Fine, Suspension Over Huarong [ Bloomberg News ] China suspended the operations of Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Beijing office for three months and fined the firm after a review of its work on auditing of China Huarong Asset Management Co. The firm was fined about 212 million yuan ($30.8

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Friday Footnotes: Why Private Equity Loves the Profession; A Very Naughty KPMG Employee; WTF PwC Guy | 4.5.24

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Anderson Hall of Fame Banquet [ Oklahoma State University ] Oklahoma State University’s School of Accounting will honor three outstanding alumni during the 2024 Wilton T. At that firm, I was an external auditor for almost five years, and in the final year, I was working in our Financial Accounting Advisory Services group.”

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Friday Footnotes: Working Late; The Year of the ESOP?; It’s Not Layoffs, It’s “Repositioning” | 1.5.24

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As the accounting industry continues to move away from commoditized audit and tax services to value-based delivery of holistic business solutions, technology is key to enhancing this value through increased efficiencies and heightened support of our role as trusted business advisors. Trump business got at least $7.8