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Accountants Behaving Badly: Police Department Accountant Couldn’t Be Bothered, PPP Loan Fraud, and a Creepy Tax Preparer

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In that capacity, Urban was responsible for maintaining the company’s general ledger, preparing financial statements, and reconciling the company’s accounts payable and receivable and bank statements. Agoura Hills Accountant Pleads Guilty to Lying to Federal Officials Investigating Illegal Gambling Operation [ U.S.

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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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Beginning no later than 2011, Fulton was aware that Nix ran an illegal gambling business. Nonetheless, Fulton knowingly laundered Nix’s illegal gambling proceeds by continuing to provide financial services to Nix and providing access to the financial system. 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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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: A Billionaire KPMG Alum; EY Split Stalled (Again); NSA Accountants | 11.14.22

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PwC Deals Director Orla Fisher, who switched from Audit to Deals in 2007, tries to explain what she does for a living : “Deals is essentially helping people to buy and sell companies. A previously undisclosed government-ordered audit of Twitter Inc.’s A recent agreement between Washington and China allowing U.S.

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Friday Footnotes: How Much Big 4 Spent on Lobbying Last Year; Super Bowl Bets; CFOs Feeling Good | 2.9.24

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You gotta pay the piper’ on your winnings, says tax expert [ NBC10 Philadelphia ] All gambling winnings are considered taxable income by the Internal Revenue Service, even if you aren’t a professional gambler. researchers surveyed financial executives (e.g., Tax Betting on the Super Bowl? “Win big?

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Everything You Need for an SBA Loan Application

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Other reasons include: Prior bankruptcy Negative taxable income Prior violent or financial felony or misdemeanor Certain industries are ineligible for SBA loans as well. Those include: Gambling Real estate Lending institutions “Adult” businesses Non-profits What Documents Do You Need for an SBA Loan?

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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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creating general ledgers, organizing financial statements, and handling pricing and invoicing. So that’s not a scripted set of results, yet it is known prior to the event, and gambling is legal on the Oscars. We’ll allow gambling on it for a certain amount of time, then we’ll turn the gambling off.