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Friday Footnotes: A Billion Dollar AI Audit Startup; Oops, All Independence Violations!; Bipartisan Tax Vote | 2.2.23

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PwC said on Monday that it had identified 129 breaches of independence rules affecting 74 clients and PCAOB inspectors had found a further one themselves while inspecting audit work in 2022. The figures were included in an update to PwC’s audit quality report, published on its website.

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Friday Footnotes: Inside PwC Cheating; Audit Market Monopoly; AI Anxiety | 12.15.23

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Cheaters What went wrong at PwC Canada: Accounting firm agrees to pay $1.45-million million to settle exam cheating scandal [ Canadian Accountant ] The Canadian member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International has agreed to pay the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario $1.45

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Picks a Global Chair; Guy Cusses Out KPMG | 10.30.23

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Instead, KPMG leaked my private texts – but I stand by every furious word I said Nyunggai Warren Mundine has doubled down after his foul-mouthed text messages to a top accounting firm were leaked. Tupperware noted there is not dispute between it and the firm. It’s more than $1.8

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Messing with Texas Costs EY $3 Million; CPA Says Blame Yourself, Not Your CPA | 11.13.23

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EY’s forthcoming PCAOB deficiency rate sucks harder than its competitors : EY aims to shake up US audit business after ‘unacceptable’ number of flaws The PCAOB had examined 54 audits carried out by EY US in 2022 for its latest round of inspections and found flaws in 46 per cent of them, the firm said. It’s you again.

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Blockchain in accounting – what does the future hold?

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When blockchain technology in accounting becomes more prevalent, record keeping and transactional accounting will become even more automated. This is also true of auditing – there will be the potential of an ‘always-on’ auditing methodology. What the top accounting firms are saying about blockchain.

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BDO Says It Is No Longer Doing Business In Russia and Belarus

Going Concern

The latest top accounting firm to turn its back on Russia and Belarus is No. noted today that Unicon is not currently a part of BDO’s global network after BDO divorced itself from the Russian firm last year due to a conflict of interest.

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