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Friday Footnotes: PwC Slashes Partner Class; Accounting Firm Rescues Dog; Do We Still Need CPAs? | 4.19.24

Going Concern

The Big Four accounting firm is considering adding about 85 U.S. The figures include both partners and principals, which are partners who aren’t certified public accountants. CPAs Have a Branding Problem for the Younger Generation [ CPA Journal ] By Jason L.

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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Hires Ex-Prisoners; Notes From PwC’s All-Hands; Why CPAs Are Leaving | 4.26.24

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One of the Big Four firms, KPMG, has become the first white-collar British business to employ former prisoners as part of the government’s new pilot programme. Its part of a campaign by the Government urging the UK’s biggest businesses to recruit prison leavers as part of in order to reduce reoffending as well as growing the economy.

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Attention, Soon-to-be-Accountants: Governments Need You

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By Girard Miller, Governing (TNS) S&P Global Ratings recently withdrew its credit ratings on 64 local governments after they failed to file financial updates on time because of staff shortages and delayed audits. So what’s changed in the supply chain for governmental accountants? Or is something else going on?

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Massachusetts Society of CPAs Announces New Board of Directors

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BDO USA, LLP Molly Griffiths, RSM US LLP Rose Jardim, CPA, Jardim & Marotta LLC Adnani Johari, CPA, CGMA, MBA, Brighthouse Financial, Inc. Katie Soule, CPA, CFP, CIMA, Merrill Lynch The Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants, Inc.

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Friday Footnotes: The ERC Problem; EY Double Dips; Stress Less in Public Accounting | 5.26.23

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PwC to remove staff involved in Australia tax leak scandal from govt work [ Reuters ] PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has agreed to remove staff with links to the leak and use of confidential Australian tax plans from government work, a senior government official told an inquiry on Thursday. The reshuffle goes into effect on July 1. ‘No

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The Audit Profession’s Inability to Retain Talent Poses a Serious Threat to Audit Quality

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Those employers with a history of mismanaging their human capital , like the largest audit firms, are being hit the hardest. The public accounting business model has relied excessively on its ability to counter the effects of massive turnover with its ability to hire and train massive numbers of new people every year directly out of college.

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State CPA Societies in Action: The Texas Society of CPAs (TXCPA)

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One of the oldest and largest societies in the United States, the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants or TXCPA currently has 28,000 members. Founded in 1915, the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants (TXCPA) provides a wide array of professional resources for CPAs.

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