CPA Practice

JUNE 7, 2023

The PCAOB on Tuesday introduced a proposal amending current PCAOB auditing standards related to the auditor’s responsibility to detect noncompliance with laws and regulations, including fraud, in the audit of a public company. The proposal also makes explicit that financial statement fraud is a type of noncompliance with laws and regulations.

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Going Concern

JULY 31, 2023

The PCAOB’s new rules would widen auditors’ responsibility to scrutinise whether a company is complying with laws and regulations, and to communicate more of their concerns to a company’s board of directors. Such suggestions are false. In response, commissioner Hester Peirce tweeted (X’d?) and Congressman Jason Smith, R-Mo.,

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Going Concern

APRIL 7, 2023

Big Four Auditors and Consultants Need Liability—And a Divorce [ Bloomberg Tax ] Part of the problem is the revolving door of personnel between the major accounting firms and the banks they purport to audit. In the letter, Revolut requested changes to Reuters’ article on the financial statements, which the news agency declined to make.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 27, 2023

The proposal includes changes to update aspects of AS 1105, Audit Evidence , and AS 2301, The Auditor’s Responses to the Risks of Material Misstatement. Auditors use technology-assisted analysis in many audit areas, including those involving significant risks of material misstatement to financial statements due to error or fraud.

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Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2022

With the EY cheating scandal making headlines even outside of our precious little accountosphere we decided to take a look at the full SEC order to answer the question — how and why were EY auditors cheating on CPE exams? The long and short of it is, EY auditors trying to shortcut CPE took advantage of a software exploit.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 9, 2023

A PCAOB inspections leader offers his insight to auditors at a conference: “The role of the financial statement auditor and the auditing profession continues to be a noble endeavor that has never been more needed and vital to our economic stability and the well-being of our capital markets,” said George Botic, CPA.

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Going Concern

MARCH 24, 2023

Reminder: you have until April 17 to weigh in on a proposal to extend the CPA exam window Practice Is it time for firms to transform their business model? Auditors have done so too. Auditors Are Demanding Concessions in Split [ Wall Street Journal ] Ernst & Young’s renegade U.S.

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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.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 17, 2024

Drawing inspiration from the customer-centric and digital experiences offered by modern companies, CPAClub was driven to address the profession’s staffing shortages and streamline outdated processes by upending the traditional CPA firm model. Traditional CPA and consulting firms’ approaches have become outdated and ineffective.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 12, 2022

Hold Auditors Accountable for Complicity in Corporate Fraud [ Bloomberg Tax ] Unfortunately, since the fall of Arthur Anderson in the wake of the Enron scandal, the SEC and PCAOB have often failed to go after auditors playing fast and loose with the rules. Here’s how recruiters and career experts recommend that you proceed.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 29, 2024

Calling all public company executives, board members, auditors, financial analysts, and investors: The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Investor Advisory Group (IAG) needs a favor. KAMs are selected from matters communicated with those charged with governance.

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Going Concern

MAY 2, 2024

Struggling to find remote accountants, CAS experts, auditors, or tax professionals for your firm or internal team? Accountingfly can help! With our Always-On Recruiting service, access a pool of skilled remote accountants without any upfront costs. Sign up now to see the complete candidate list and connect with potential hires.

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CPA Practice

JULY 9, 2023

Advantage Audit is an audit planning aid and audit program series designed to help auditors comply with risk-based professional standards in a straightforward and efficient manner. AuditFile is the only complete, cloud-based, all-in-one engagement automation platform for public accounting professionals and internal auditors.

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Going Concern

MAY 5, 2022

Here’s a 2015 AICPA article that sort of cosigns my foggy recollection : The profession’s focus on the CPA pipeline has long been a priority. That will continue, with new approaches to attracting, engaging and inspiring the future generation of CPAs. Building relationships with academics. What can we extrapolate from this?

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Anders CPA

JANUARY 9, 2024

FDICIA Requirements for over $500 Million in Assets After a bank has crossed $500 million in assets, the following additional FDICIA requirements will become effective: Comparative audited financial statements are due to the appropriate federal bank agency within 120 days after the fiscal year-end for non-public banking institutions.

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Withum

JANUARY 24, 2023

Although an independent financial statement audit may not gain the day-to-day attention of management the same way as growing revenue or projecting cash flows; for many, there will come a time when an audit becomes a vital part of the company’s lifecycle. Auditors can only work as quickly as the requested information is provided.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Auditors are poised to become crucial facilitators in the accounting and finance function’s adoption of AI and large language models (LLMs). Auditors are the Keystone for AI Integration The successful integration of AI has one essential requirement—a nuanced understanding of the model’s data origins and its interpretations.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Just kidding, it’s a guest post from Parker Skaats, CPA, an experienced government worker who’s here to pitch the joys of government work to the unwashed overworked masses. It’s not just about financial statements and ledgers. But in the halls of government auditing, the CPA is not all that common.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As part of the Checkpoint Engage family of products, Checkpoint Engage Single Audit provides auditors a seamless experience for financial statement audits of local governments, nonprofits, school districts, and HUD engagements, along with a host of other Thomson Reuters Cloud Audit Suite industry titles and applications.

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Going Concern

APRIL 29, 2022

ICYMI | The CPA Evolution Project Realigns the Professional Certification and Challenges Accounting’s Viability as a Stand-alone Major [ The CPA Journal ] Accounting—at least as an independent field of study—is becoming obsolete in today’s technology- and analytics-focused world. Less work for EY auditors?

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Accounting Education Disrupted [ CPA Journal ] Although emerging technologies have disrupted the entire accounting ecosystem in recent years, the education realm has been one of the areas hardest hit. Declining enrollments and decreased numbers of CPA candidates have presented formidable challenges for institutions of higher learning. .”

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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.

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Going Concern

APRIL 1, 2022

ARB’s auditor Messrs BDO voluntarily resigns after failure to reach agreement on proposed increase of audit fees [ The Edge ] Expect to see a lot of this going forward: ARB Bhd on Friday (April 1) announced its auditor Messrs BDO PLT (BDO) has voluntarily resigned. Andrea Carr CPA (@andreacpa0) March 31, 2022. is it over yet?

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CPA Practice

MAY 2, 2023

There is a brand-new section that debuted today in PCAOB inspection reports of audit firms, and it is devoted to auditor independence. “We The auditor independence section will appear in reports for PCAOB inspections completed in 2022, beginning with eight reports that were released on Tuesday.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Panama) Frost, PLLC Harbourside CPA LLP (Canada) Keith K Zhen CPA Maggart & Associates, P.C Inc UHY LLP Warren Averett, LLC Zwick CPA, PLLC Expanded reports Baker Tilly US, LLP (12/21/2020 Report) Ernst & Young, S.L. For one of these lucky audits, PwC Canada was not the primary auditor. AS 2315.16,23, and.23A)

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As they study for the CPA exam, move to their first apartments, and navigate their early careers, they get to witness how “leading with love” and compassion can bolster their professional journeys. Fort Wright-based VonLehman CPA & Advisory Firm has agreed to a merger with accounting firm Dean Dorton in a deal to be completed Jan.

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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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Going Concern

JANUARY 29, 2024

NYSSCPA CEO Calvin Harris, CPA said in a column for CPA Journal : But the winds of change have long been upon us. This is part of why New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s recent signing of “non-CPA ownership” into law is such a big deal. More on the New York non-CPA ownership bill. Let’s read a little bit.

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Going Concern

APRIL 12, 2023

Bloomberg has reported that Silicon Valley Bank auditors KPMG have been sued — along with underwriters Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley — after SVB’s spectacular collapse on March 10. The complaint appears to be the first to target the bank’s auditors and underwriters. We knew this was coming.

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Withum

MAY 10, 2022

I am scheduled to present four free webinars primarily for CPAs, but anyone in business that uses financial statements might also find them interesting and insightful. The following are being presented for CPA Academy. – Financial Statement Myths. Here is my schedule with brief descriptions.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Someone you know spoke to NPR’s Marketplace for this story: Some accountants are turning away new customers this tax season Tax filing season is here and if you’ve been putting off finding a CPA, good luck. We get calls all the time saying, ‘Hey, my CPA just retired. And we don’t,” said Jenni Merrell, a CPA in Chico, California.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 23, 2023

Many experts predict that the years ahead will be fueled by financial fraud investigations and a heightened emphasis on the ability to conduct due diligence and ensure clear financial insights. As accounting firms begin 2023 they have one thing top of mind — how to effectively recruit and retain talent.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 19, 2023

According to Caseware’s 2023 State of Accounting Firms Trend Report , more than 90% of accountants and 95% of auditors find hiring skilled talent challenging. Everything was handled by a CPA, from collecting client documents to doing the work and delivering the tax return, financial statements or other work products.

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Withum

OCTOBER 12, 2023

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. Accounting is the means of expressing these activities, and financial statements are how the activities are presented.

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Withum

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The AICPA Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. The AICPA Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. There was a need to strengthen the quality of employee benefit plan audits and enhance auditor reporting. The study found that 39% of employee benefit plan audits had one or more major deficiencies. What is Changing?

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 27, 2022

.” The administrators, whose job it is to find some funds to repay NMC creditors, say EY auditors did not detect that NMC’s accounts were fraudulently misstated to the tune of a couple billion dollars. “Whose statements are these? EY says that wasn’t their job.

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