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Tuesday Morning Accounting News Brief: CPA Numbers Are Abysmal; PwC Blocked Government Inquiry | 5.30.23

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Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) is hoarding the funds paid to it as a result of fines , writes Richard Murphy on his blog Funding the Future. It is time for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to put the fines paid by to [sic?]

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UK Accounting Watchdog Ramps Up Fines

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The FRC issued fines totaling $19 million against PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and KPMG last week, while the regulator also sent KPMG an unprecedented warning that its auditing processes are subpar. “The risk in imposing ever-greater financial sanctions is that these increase the risk profile of auditing,” he said. .

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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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The parliamentary scrutiny made household names of high-fliers who had become used to operating under the radar of public opinion or corporate accountability. Racial diversity in accounting has been treated as a “box-ticking exercise”, Atul said to The Mail on Sunday in December, even when professions are a magnet for minorities.