CPA Practice

MARCH 21, 2024

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) doled out a total of $150,000 in fines to three partners at KPMG in China for turning a blind eye to U.S. auditing standards. audit regulator. Specifically, they didn’t appropriately evaluate the reasonableness of Tarena’s allowance for doubtful accounts.

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CPA Practice

MAY 10, 2023

The head of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) said today that its inspectors found significant deficiencies in the audits of U.S.-listed In a statement, PCAOB Chair Erica Williams said: Both reports show unacceptable rates of Part I.A Today’s reports are a powerful first step toward accountability.

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Going Concern

MAY 26, 2023

EY US reshuffles leadership following failure of spin-off plan [ Financial Times ] EY’s US chair Julie Boland has reshuffled the firm’s leadership, elevating loyalists after winning a power struggle with the Big Four accounting firm’s global bosses that scuppered a plan to spin off its consulting arm. million over a decade.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 10, 2024

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) issued a pair of proposals on April 9, one of which would require audit firms to publicly disclose several metrics —including the involvement of partners and managers on an audit, auditor workload, and auditor turnover—on a new form that would be accessible to investors.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

note: This post brought to you by the Big Government Auditing lobby. When you hear “government auditing,” do you picture dull offices with fluorescent lighting, stacks of paper taller than you, and people who still think fax machines are the pinnacle of technology? Enter the world of government auditing.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has not been in a jovial mood lately. Shortly after criticizing audit firms for the number of errors they made on public company audits reviewed by PCAOB inspectors last year, the audit watchdog doled out sanctions to 12 accounting firms from July 28 to Aug.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

auditing requirements because in numerous audits over numerous years Deloitte China asked clients to select their own samples for testing and to prepare their own audit documentation. auditing requirements in its component audits of U.S. issuers and its audits of foreign companies listed on U.S.

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Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2022

The hardworking human beings at Audit Analytics have released their analysis of initial public offering trends and IPO auditor market share for the first quarter of this year , a period in which the number of companies going public was minuscule compared to Q1 of 2021. Marcum and Withum combined audited 49.3%

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Withum

JULY 12, 2023

Whatever the case may be, you may need an audit of your financial statements. If you have been tasked to communicate with the auditors, you are aware of the many emails, phone calls, and documents that flow back and forth from the beginning to the end of the audit. Why these three documents?

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 2, 2024

PKF Mueller Joins Cherry Bekaert to Expand Chicago Market Reach Cherry Bekaery, an assurance, tax and advisory firm, recently completed an acquisition transaction with PKF Mueller , a full-service certified public accounting and business advisory firm located in the metropolitan Chicago area.

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Going Concern

APRIL 15, 2024

In response, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has drafted a rule that the accounting firms can have public trust or private financials—but they can’t have both. Public accounting firms operate in a unique space in our society. Regulations need to change to match. Right now, they don’t.

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Anders CPA

JANUARY 8, 2024

Jeanne Dee, CPA/CGMA, audit and assurance partner at Anders CPAs + Advisors (Anders), has been appointed to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Not-for-Profit Advisory Committee (NAC) effective January 1, 2024. in Accounting from the University of Missouri – St. She holds a B.S.

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Withum

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The AICPA Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. The Standard was originally effective for audits of employee benefit plan (EBP) financial statements subject to the ERISA for periods ending on or after December 15, 2020, but was delayed one year to December 15, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Going Concern

MAY 6, 2022

Audit rooms come in all shapes and sizes—usually small, often windowless, sometimes with chairs you can actually sit on, and almost always as far away from the finance/accounting department as possible. After eight years in public accounting, I have loads of unforgettable audit room experiences. The b oardroom.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Under his leadership, the Division of Finance has enhanced university business practices and transformed several financial and business information systems to improve customer service for faculty, staff, and students. The 2023 Forum on Auditing in the Small Business Environment and on Auditing Broker-Dealers is set for Oct.

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Withum

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Audited financial statements are a cornerstone of the financial markets. Tonight I will conduct my second Auditing class session of this semester at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and I will be teaching what the auditor’s opinion means and what auditors do to arrive at their opinion.

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Withum

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Now, regulations, investors and other stakeholders want companies to prove their ESG and climate information is accurate and reliable through audits and assurance. This experience puts them at the top of most companies’ list when considering a firm to perform the third-party audit of their ESG and climate reporting.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Haoxin”), a mainland China-based registered public accounting firm, and four of its associated persons for violations that include issuing a false audit report, failing to maintain independence from their issuer client, and improperly adopting the work of another accounting firm as their own. auditing curriculum.

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Going Concern

MARCH 23, 2022

But here’s some good news associated with the Andersen name: audit partners who worked at Arthur Andersen during its collapse and who currently work in the Big 4 provide higher-quality audits than audit partners at other public accounting firms who weren’t at Andersen during the Enron scandal, according to a new study.

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Going Concern

MAY 12, 2022

After doing a quick Google search, it looks like the PCAOB hasn’t punished a public accounting firm for failures in its audits of brokers and dealers since 2016. And three Citrin Cooperman partners were fined a total of $55,000 for their roles in the firm’s subpar auditing.

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Going Concern

JULY 5, 2022

Interesting piece over at the Wall Street Journal this morning about environmental disclosures or, more significantly, who gets to charge clients for auditing this data under SEC climate disclosure rules proposed in March. Only certified public accountants can audit public companies’ financial statements, per U.S.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In an article for CoinDesk , Francine McKenna took a crack at why the FTX debacle happened, and like she always does when there ’s really bad accounting at a company going through a financial crisis, who are/were the auditors: It’s not clear why FTX commissioned two different audit firms to audit its 2020 and 2021 financial statements.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Audit Fees Rise Only 2.5%, But Audits Require Greater Effort [ CFO ]. and 2.3%, respectively, in 2021, according to the Financial Education & Research Foundation’s Public Company Audit Fee Study. India Launches Audit Inspections After Spate Of Scandals [ Bloomberg Tax ].

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

a Top 60 independent Certified Public Accounting (CPA) firm has expanded the leadership team in its Tax Advisory practice through the addition of several new hires. Janelle Merlo , Tax Director, has 20 years of public accounting experience, providing a wide variety of tax and consulting services to a broad range of clients.

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Cherry Bekaert

MARCH 6, 2024

Offering Simple Solutions to Complex Requirements Growing businesses are challenged when complying with financial statement tax reporting requirements. Cherry Bekaert’s tax team brings expertise in both industry and public accounting to deliver a tailored solution.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 29, 2024

Top 100 accounting firm Haynie & Co. was fined $400,000 and two current and two former partners were fined a total of $190,000 by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on Jan. 23 for subpar auditing and quality control failures. or Haynie’s 2019 audit of Investview Inc.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 30, 2023

But they also overwhelming said it’s boring, it’s stuffy, you do taxes or audit. That’s it, you sit at a desk all day and crunch numbers, and that’s not true either, particularly if you’re in public accounting or doing consulting work for clients. There’s a lot more to it than doing audit and tax. It’s not glamorous.

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Going Concern

JULY 13, 2023

PCAOB Rule 2203, Special Reports requires any registered public accounting firm to file a special report on Form 3 to report information to the Board no later than thirty days after the occurrence of the event. You can read about that here. million penalty for the firm.

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Going Concern

MARCH 30, 2022

The latest audit inspection results for Crowe show the 11th-ranked public accounting firm by revenue bombed 27% of the audits reviewed in the most recent PCAOB inspection cycle, but the firm was less bad in its 2020 report card than it was in 2019’s. Let’s take a look: Crowe. Moss Adams.

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Going Concern

APRIL 12, 2023

KPMG audited the bank for nearly 30 years. As you may recall, KPMG issued an unqualified audit opinion two weeks before SVB went down in flames. As a publicly traded company, SVB would be required to provide a 10-Q, which is an unaudited and condensed version of a 10-K, which are audited financial statements.

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Going Concern

JULY 31, 2023

Currently KPMG, Deloitte and EY provide both consulting and audit to both the public and private sector. Originally they were just audit firms,” he said. Then the audit firms decided to create this problem by going off and doing their own consulting and the whole thing’s got out of hand.”

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Going Concern

MARCH 16, 2022

The big news in the accounting profession yesterday afternoon from Dave Michaels of the Wall Street Journal was that the SEC is investigating the Big 4 and other public accounting firms on whether the consulting and non-audit services they sell to clients is conflicting with their independence as the auditors of said clients.

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Withum

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Public accounting is a great profession performing a vital function for businesses, not-for-profit organizations and individuals in many different areas of the overall economy. My career was spent as a certified public accountant (CPA) and it was extremely rewarding since I was able to help many clients in many different situations.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

a Top 60 independent Certified Public Accounting (CPA) firm has expanded the leadership team in its Tax Advisory practice through the addition of several new hires. Janelle Merlo , Tax Director, has 20 years of public accounting experience, providing a wide variety of tax and consulting services to a broad range of clients.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 27, 2023

A rules proposal issued by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on June 26 addresses aspects of designing and performing audit procedures that involve technology-assisted analysis of information contained in electronic format.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The settlement resolves allegations of multiple instances of partners at US-based Marcum LLP engaging in public accounting work in Ontario, including performing audits of reporting issuers, without being members of CPA Ontario or holding Public Accounting Licenses in Ontario. CPA Ontario Reaches a $1.2M

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Going Concern

JULY 28, 2023

INSIDE Public Accounting Releases Its Annual Rankings and Analysis of the Nation’s Largest, Fast-Growing Public Accounting Firms [ INSIDE Public Accounting ] “The labor shortage is a major driver behind the behavior of the IPA 100 firms,” says Charles Hylan, managing director at The Growth Partnership, IPA’s parent company.

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