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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Unintended Audit Consequences; The IRS Needs Experienced Accountants; PwC AI | 9.18.23

Going Concern

‘There is no work to balance’: how shrinking budgets, Covid and AI shook up life in consulting : Andrew* is a 63-year-old partner in a small consultancy in England who finds himself with too much free time and too little cash. Sierra, a 23-year-old associate in New York is feeling “horrible” pressure to perform so she is not laid off.

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Talent-Strapped Down Under Deloitte and EY Are Importing Staff

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Our favorite Aussie professional services expert Edmund Tadros at Australian Financial Review has written about Deloitte and EY bringing more than 800 warm bodies into the country to staff areas like audit and cybersecurity where talent is scarce. Let’s see what he said.

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Friday Footnotes: Tim Ryan Works Too Hard; Fake CPA Gets Violent Over QuickBooks Files; PwC PR | 10.20.23

Going Concern

A consulting firm struggled to find the right hybrid work model. day workweek [ Fortune ] Management consulting firm Insigniam has seemingly found that happy medium after instituting a 4.5-day Audit & Assurance professionals in their daily tasks and decision-making processes. Here’s how it landed on a 4.5-day

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Friday Footnotes: Firms on India Hiring Spree; PCAOB Heads Overseas; PwC Lets You See Your Family This Summer | 5.6.22

Going Concern

The 25-year-old tax accountant saw the story on the news and decided he wanted to take Ralph, a woman he’d never met, to Game 2 of the NBA Finals. It builds upon other, more targeted interim audits and previous reports and will be followed up with further examination of the full 2022 season, TIGTA said.

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