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Friday Footnotes: Big 4 Nixes Legal Practices; EY Looks the Other Way; Auditors Get Lectured Again | 10.14.22

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Big Four Audit Giants Shut Down Legal Operations in China Following ‘Regulatory Raids’ [ Law.com ]. The Big Four auditing giants have quietly shut down their legal affiliations in China following intense regulatory scrutiny, according to an investigation by Law.com International, in a major development for Asia’s legal industry.

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Cedar Raises $102M For Medical Billing

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based Novant is a nonprofit network consisting of more than 1,500 physicians and 15 medical centers in North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina, according to its 2018 audited financial statements. Winston, N.C.-based

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Friday Footnotes: Fired Accountant Spills the Dirty Laundry; Scandals of Yore; Gen AI For Good | 1.26.24

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Long Read Corporate Self-Oversight [ The American Prospect ] Four auditing firms examine the books of nearly every big U.S. How AI is transforming audit [ Thomson Reuters ] In the past, auditors have heavily relied on manual processes to uncover risks in financial statements and business operations.

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Friday Footnotes: KPMG’s ESG Conflict; PwC Fails to Deliver; FASB Turns Attention to AI | 3.3.23

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Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital to Restate Some Results on Accounting Issues [ CoinDesk ] Marathon Digital (MARA) said it will need to restate portions of its audited 2021 results and currently unaudited quarterly reports from 2022 after an inquiry from the U.S. They also state that digital assets should be backed by a safeguarding asset.

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Friday Footnotes: Deloitte Partner Scammed By Other Deloitte Partner; Big 4 Legal Grows; A $3.5 Billion Error | 2.17.23

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Audit Lack of Crypto Audit Regulation Raises Questions About PCAOB Authority [ Wall Street Journal ] The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is facing calls to be the regulator that brings supervision to bear on auditors of cryptocurrency companies, even as the majority of crypto businesses fall outside its jurisdiction. “It

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Whitley Penn Finds Out New Yorkers Do Not F Around

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After a frantic search, the Trump Organization settled on the firm of Whitley Penn, LLP (“Whitley Penn”) based out of Fort Worth, Texas to perform audit services, compilation services and tax preparation services, including the preparation of an SOFC for the year 2021. Let’s see what her beef is.

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