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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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PwC Locks Down Top Spot in Vault’s Best Accounting Firms Ranking for 2025

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Vault’s ranking for 2025 came out Monday morning, and for the 12th straight year, PwC was named the top accounting firm in the U.S. Accountants at peer firms tell us that PwC is ‘the gold standard of audit and puts the other audit firms to shame,’” Vault said in a media release. in 2020 , 3.6%

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Plenty of Other Firms Were Winners in Vault’s 2024 Accounting Rankings

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But those weren’t the only firms to receive kudos from Vault, a website that provides career resources and advice to students and job seekers. Each year Vault recognizes the top accounting firms in several different workplace categories, based on the feedback it receives from a survey of accountants.

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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. Jen came out in support of an alternate pathway to CPA licensure in April. He passed away on September 11.

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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.

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