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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Messing with Texas Costs EY $3 Million; CPA Says Blame Yourself, Not Your CPA | 11.13.23

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EY’s forthcoming PCAOB deficiency rate sucks harder than its competitors : EY aims to shake up US audit business after ‘unacceptable’ number of flaws The PCAOB had examined 54 audits carried out by EY US in 2022 for its latest round of inspections and found flaws in 46 per cent of them, the firm said. Baker Tilly (No.

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Friday Footnotes: A Billion Dollar AI Audit Startup; Oops, All Independence Violations!; Bipartisan Tax Vote | 2.2.23

Going Concern

PwC said on Monday that it had identified 129 breaches of independence rules affecting 74 clients and PCAOB inspectors had found a further one themselves while inspecting audit work in 2022. The figures were included in an update to PwC’s audit quality report, published on its website. But the challenges she is facing defy simplicity.

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