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Friday Footnotes: Accountant Shortage Ramps Up Work Pressure; Celebrities’ Trusted CPAs; ERC Reverse Card | 12.8.23

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companies while hindering recruitment and retention, according to 78% of audit partners surveyed by the Center for Audit Quality. The CAQ surveyed 748 audit partners at eight of the largest accounting firms about conditions for their clients. Cohen & Co., McKonly & Asbury ] The merger will be effective January 1, 2024.

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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Pays High Schoolers 20 Bucks an Hour; Deloitte Cyberattacked Too; IRS on ERC | 7.28.23

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The combination of too few professionals and high demand is pushing firm leaders to merge up, outsource tax work and hire non-CPAs, among other strategies. Beginning no later than 2011, Fulton was aware that Nix ran an illegal gambling business. The IRS audit rate for large partnerships has dropped to less than 0.5% since 2007.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY’s Paying Big For the Everest Failure; PwC UK Delays Promotions | 2.12.24

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Canadian Accountant put out a piece on the auditor shuffle using some Ideagen Audit Analytics data : While the annual data provided to Canadian Accountant by an American data analytics firm always contains a few fascinating odds and ends — and that year was no different — the most recent data available presented a mystery.

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Friday Footnotes: How EY Fights Poaching; Lack of Staff Is Closing Doors; Accounting to Biglaw? | 11.25.22

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FRC to fine Deloitte £440k over 2018 audit [ Accountancy Today ]. According to the FRC, it found serious failings in the reviewed audit, which demonstrated a “significant departure from the standards expected of a registered auditor”. Audit reform causing work to ‘cascade down’ through the market [ AccountancyAge ].

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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Downsizes (Office Space); CPA CPA CPA; Some Good News on Diversity | 8.26.22

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Headquarters at Hudson Yards [ Wall Street Journal ] The global audit and consulting firm KPMG LLP is shrinking its New York office space by more than 40%, becoming the latest big company to cut back on real estate as it embraces hybrid work. and China Announce Deal to Share Audits of U.S.-Listed stock exchanges.

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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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“A proposal like this could allow for the reinstatement of credit for more than 15,000 CPA candidates and re-open the door for those candidates to complete their journeys to becoming licensed CPAs. So that’s not a scripted set of results, yet it is known prior to the event, and gambling is legal on the Oscars.