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

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Local CPA weighs in on accountant shortage [ WMDT ] The Salisbury, MD news spoke to a UHY partner about the issue. CPA at UHY Group Mark Welsh tells 47ABC that recruiting slowing down has meant firms are turning to AI, Bots, and international workers to help fill demand, raising prices as much as ten percent for end-users. Welsh said.

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Friday Footnotes: For the Last Time, Salaries Are Too Low; NOCLAR Is Back; Big 4 Beat Up Again | 3.1.24

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For many 22- to 27-year-olds, known as Generation Z, their average student debt of more than $20,000 and the lure of higher-paying Wall Street and Silicon Valley firms means the time and effort required to become a CPA doesn’t pencil out.

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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Client’s Spectacular Failure; PwC Gets Defensive; Kids Doing Taxes | 3.10.23

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KPMG has served as SVB auditor since 1994. Iowa state auditor slams bill that would limit state watchdog [ The Gazette ] Limits would be placed on what personal information the state taxpayers’ watchdog could demand during an audit under legislation being advanced by state lawmakers. Check out the auditor.

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Friday Footnotes: IRS Chief Hoping for ‘Financial Sacrifice’; PwC Spin-Off Layoff; KPMG Unites Deals and Other Deals | 10.27.23

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Joshua Lance, CPA, CGMA, founder and owner of the virtual firm Lance CPA Group, passed away Saturday after a nearly yearlong battle with cancer. I served with Josh on the Illinois CPA Society Board of Directors and regularly attended the same accounting events. He was 40 years old. Party supply retailer Party City Holdco Inc.

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There Are 340,000 Fewer Accountants—and Companies Are Paying the Price

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“If the people preparing the financials are overworked, or there’s not enough of them, you will have errors,” said Joshua Khavis, assistant professor of accounting and law at the University at Buffalo School of Management, whose research has documented links between auditor turnover , long working hours and mistakes.

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Friday Footnotes: KPMG’s Idea of a Fun Summer; IRS Eats Their Homework; Downsized GT Downsizes | 5.13.22

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Junior KPMG auditor ‘should not lose his home’ for misleading regulator, says tribunal [ Financial Times ] A former junior KPMG auditor should not receive a fine so large it could force him to sell his matrimonial home, a tribunal has said. ” COVID-19 has negatively impacted how auditors work [ Phys.org ] Duh? .

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Deloitte Goes Big in Boston; Advisory Readies For Pain | 7.10.23

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The firm’s junior auditors have been told that the pay band for one cohort would be frozen while others would increase by just 3pc or 6pc. A survey published last week by the Management Consultancies Association (MCA) spelled out the problems for Britain. PwC said this was owing to “challenging” market conditions.

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