CPA Practice

APRIL 12, 2023

By Blake Oliver, CPA, and Chris Vanover, CPA. CPAs have always been passionate about numbers, using various metrics such as revenue, profit, headcount and realization to measure success. However, this focus on numerical indicators is contributing to the decline of the CPA profession itself.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 31, 2023

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

More generally, accounting talent pool concerns are pressing even for accounting firms , as enrollment rates of accounting students continue to fall. The accounting education pipeline is drier than ever even as accounting degrees require many additional course hours. Are they experienced with auditors?

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Going Concern

JUNE 28, 2022

The SEC has fined EY a record $100 million after an investigation revealed auditors at EY were cheating on ethics exams (open book ethics exams we presume) and CPE; worse than cheating alone, they actively tried to cover it up and hide the cheating from the SEC. Well this is bad. Mind the KPMG cheating also involved ethics.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Rather, how dueling factions within the profession are fighting for and against keeping it as the only option to CPA licensure. To summarize most of the article: barrier to entry, US workforce hemorrhaged 334,000 accountants and auditors in two years, pipeline pipeline pipeline, blah blah. We needed to take some action.”

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Going Concern

MAY 12, 2023

Colorado Springs accounting firm to open Denver office [ Denver Business Journal ] Stockman Kast Ryan and Co., Fired: job search or CPA exam? KPMG, PwC and Deloitte got less than 4% each, according to data from the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants analyzed by Bloomberg. Is AI going to replace me? [

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Going Concern

MARCH 22, 2024

She made general manager at 29 with a CPA [ eFinancialCareers ] Many young professionals begin to eye managerial posts as they approach their 30s – but Shanny Lee (CPA, Aust.) But until a deferral is confirmed, CPAs must consider which role they will serve for clients required to file when the CTA becomes effective.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Perusing The CPA Journal as one does when one is tasked with the onerous burden of reporting on happenings in a profession in which so few things happen, I saw this discussion on CPA Evolution by Nina Terranova Dorata, PhD, CPA and Vincent J. Evaluating the CPA Evolution Initiative [ The CPA Journal ].

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

That’s sort of what’s happening in the profession right now over proposed legislation in Minnesota that offers an alternative to the traditional 150 units of education required for licensure. The proposal would make it harder for Minnesota CPAs to practice across state lines, physically and virtually.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 15, 2023

Snodgrass —failed to obtain audit committee pre-approval in connection with providing audit and/or non-audit services to issuer audit clients, in violation of PCAOB Rule 3520, Auditor Independence , and for two of the three firms (BPM and Plante Moran) PCAOB Rule 3524, Audit Committee Pre-Approval of Certain Tax Services. 9: Blue & Co.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 22, 2022

PwC is being sued by a 28-year-old auditor who claims he suffered a serious head injury after attending a work event that involved an “excessive” drinking game of pub golf. Reno’s KOLO ran a segment about the accountant shortage : “The reasons are simple say analysts. There’s consistent continuing education.

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Cherry Bekaert

MAY 3, 2024

Accounting and finance employment is projected to grow 4% from 2022 to 2032, with about 126,500 openings for accountants and auditors each year on average. 1 But attracting and retaining talent is proving difficult for several accounting recruiters and accounting talent acquisition specialists. retirement).

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

CPA Exam Friendly reminder, deadlines to apply for BEC before the new exam in 2024 are quickly approaching. CPA Exam Candidates: You Better Hurry Up and Apply For BEC Before It’s Gone Forever Also, WTF? CPA Exam Candidates: You Better Hurry Up and Apply For BEC Before It’s Gone Forever Also, WTF? Did Exam Costs go up?

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Going Concern

MARCH 11, 2024

Minnesota’s proposal to add a second pathway to CPA licensure that doesn’t require 150 hours of education is moving forward in the MN Senate. ” … The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, one of the organizations asserting itself in Minnesota, does not care. It prefers the status quo.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The next generation of accountants and auditors is in demand, but Ben Lansford, an accounting professor and director of the Master of Accounting program at the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University explained why some are hesitant. Accounting is difficult,” he says. It’s still a good path,” he says.

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ThomsonReuters

JANUARY 18, 2024

Jump to: What are the roles and responsibilities for accountants? Accountant vs. CPA vs. tax preparer: What are the differences? GAAP and AICPA What issues should accountants be aware of in the profession? How can accountants be more efficient? Accountant responsibilities extend far beyond number crunching.

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Going Concern

MAY 5, 2023

Entry-level CPAs in advisory practices are making $11,000 more than CPAs starting out in audit and tax, and $20,000 more than non-CPAs in advisory. The report says CPAs are generally paid more than non-CPAs, but the pay gap between the two shrinks when moving from entry-level to the manager level. “We

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Going Concern

APRIL 15, 2022

More Predictions about the Profession’s Future [ The CPA Journal ] Writes Yigal Rechtman, CPA, CFE, CITP, CISM: The current impediments to growth are mostly driven by the perception of prospective entrants to the CPA profession. For example, every startup would benefit immensely from having a CPA among its founders.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 16, 2024

Accountants from EY and PwC are braced for questioning by the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal, which is expected to turn its attention to the embattled institution’s external auditors later this year. As reported by Canadian Accountant, Marcum agreed in September 2023 to pay $1.2 ” Introspection huh? “I

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Going Concern

JANUARY 19, 2024

ICYMI | Get Ready for the Future of Auditing [ CPA Journal ] The increasing use of technology is changing how businesses operate, which methodology and technology auditors use, and what career paths they follow. According to court documents, Stewart was employed as a certified public accountant in Bakersfield.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Birthdays A CPA Firm Celebrates a Century in Business [ The CPA Journal ] In today’s climate of accounting firm mergers, it is worth recognizing when a CPA firm has managed to remain independent and partner-owned for 100 years. “Win big? The sessions will begin Feb. 12 and run each day next week. 1, 2024.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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. Additionally, it is alleged that Urban transferred significant amounts of embezzled funds to family members.

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Basis 365

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A controller, however, is the more senior position responsible for managing accounting-related activities within the company. Moreover, controllers often start as public accountants before moving up to corporate environments and gaining the trust required to perform controller duties. What is an accountant?

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The firm now under contract the prepare the audit, RSM, has said city departments do not regularly reconcile accounts and complete other functions that would allow them to close the books in time to complete the current audit by June 30, and would allow them to tackle the next audit soon after the new fiscal year begins July 1.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Michael Harlow to Lead Cannabis Practice at CohnReznick [ INSIDE Public Accounting ] New York-based IPA 100 firm CohnReznick LLP (FY23 net revenue of $920 million) has named Michael Harlow as leader of its cannabis industry practice. Both Mendlowitz and his father, also a CPA, attended the CUNY school.

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Going Concern

APRIL 20, 2022

As I snarkily mentioned last week , the AICPA has finally released its much-anticipated 2021 Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits (or Trends , for short) report [PDF here ], a behemoth data dump of accounting industry stats first released in 1971 and released every two years since 2009.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The FinTech Flo Podcast: A podcast co-hosted by FloQast CEO Mike Whitmire, discussing trending news and media in the accounting and fintech world. Audit Trails : A podcast-style interview offering a fresh perspective on public accounting life by sharing real stories from current or former auditors.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The FinTech Flo Podcast: A podcast co-hosted by FloQast CEO Mike Whitmire, discussing trending news and media in the accounting and fintech world. Audit Trails : A podcast-style interview offering a fresh perspective on public accounting life by sharing real stories from current or former auditors.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

AICPA News is a roundup of recent announcements from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The practice aid, Accounting for and Auditing of Digital Assets , is intended to provide nonauthoritative guidance on how to account for and audit digital assets under U.S.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Meanwhile, Deloitte affiliates are at number 3 with 141 clients and Grant Thornton Bharat LLP associates have taken the fourth spot with 87 audits, as per the study of auditors of all listed companies. After 1,600 auditors combed through DOD’s $3.5 Teaching Accounting Students an Alphabet Soup of Technology [ The CPA Journal ].

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CPA Practice

JULY 27, 2023

As an example of the ChatGPT response to “What are the most time-consuming items in a CPA Firm,” ChatGPT suggested the following (completely unedited): Accounting or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) firms often have to manage numerous tasks, some of which can be quite time-consuming.

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Going Concern

APRIL 21, 2023

with offer letters that if they waited to start until April 2024, the firm would pay them $40,000 to work for a nonprofit or $30,000 to learn a new language or participate in an educational program, in one communication that suggested hires could also become yoga instructors or go on safari for $20,000. At McKinsey, many M.B.A.s

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Going Concern

JUNE 12, 2023

Mississippi auditor Shad White issued a report Thursday that said the state’s public universities spent $23.4 In light of all this, as a starting point, I thought it was important for taxpayers to know what public universities are spending on DEI.” Ackerman in the Sep/Oct 2022 CPA Journal was a great article.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 17, 2023

In the last few years there has been a shortage of critical skills with regards to the accounting profession and especially in the output of North American and European professionals with CPA, EA and CMA qualifications. The development of technology is hastening the transformation of the accounting sector. The three primary U.S.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 23, 2023

Brazilian retailer and PwC client Americanas filed for bankruptcy, its three largest shareholders said over the weekend they had not known of $4 billion in accounting inconsistencies. “We didn’t know of and would never allow any accounting manipulation in the company”, they said in a statement.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 12, 2024

Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. Long Reads How Auditor Deloitte Missed A Nigerian Company’s Massive Fraud [ Forbes ] Hindenburg Research, known for sniffing out corporate scams, took aim in June at an obscure Nigeria-based outfit named Tingo Group. Tingo paid $1.6

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 11, 2022

note: the following is penned by Bob Jennings CPA, EA for his Taxspeaker.com newsletter. Smaller firms cannot pay competitive salaries because the graduates must be expensively retrained in small business accounting needs. According to the SBA , small business generates about 44% of GDP in America and 2/3 of new jobs annually.

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