Accounting Today

JULY 25, 2025

FLORIDA Stefano Comotti was appointed chair of the global board of the Institute of Internal Auditors, Lake Mary, for 2025-26. MISSOURI Duke Johnson Duke Johnson, a senior accountant at KPM CPAs & Advisors, Springfield, earned his CPA license. RHODE ISLAND Elizabeth Harman was promoted to partner at KLR, Providence.

Rhode Island

Going Concern

OCTOBER 25, 2024

For the second year in a row, New York-based accounting firm PKF O’Connor Davies took the #1 spot on Vault’s Best Overall Internships list. Passage of the CPA Exam, as with all our pathways, remains a benchmark. CPA’s, PC, can no longer complete the audits due to staffing issues. The number of U.S.

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Accounting Today

JUNE 5, 2025

CPA Timothy Trifilo has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for making a false statement on a mortgage loan application and for not filing an income tax return. New York: Tax preparer Rafael Alvarez, 61, of Cortland Manor, New York, has been sentenced to four years in prison in connection with a decade-long, $145-million tax fraud.

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Accounting Today

JUNE 6, 2025

By Paige Hagy 6h ago Practice management On the move: HCVT hired CAS co-leader Grant Thornton names new CFO; CTCPA installs new board of directors; and more news from across the profession. Avalara launches APIs for 1099, W-9 solutions Scott McFarlane, chief executive officer of Avalara Inc.,

Technology

Going Concern

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

audit regulator for the first time, among new requirements that have faced pushback from auditors but have received support from many investors The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board on Thursday voted 4-1 to bolster the rules around firms’ reporting annually and for special circumstances, such as a filed lawsuit or private-equity investment.

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Accounting Today

JULY 1, 2025

In addition to the new audit format, OMB is launching a four-part agenda to improve the effectiveness of federal audits: Auditing the auditors : OMB will review the roles and value of auditors — including public accountants, inspectors general and agency CFOs — to ensure audits align with risk and mission outcomes.

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Going Concern

JUNE 16, 2025

Crete Professional Alliance says this on their website: “Crete Professionals Alliance (“Crete PA”) is not a licensed CPA firm. Its subsidiary entities, which are not licensed CPA firms, provide tax, advisory, and other non-attest services to clients. Note: Zora is a client.

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Going Concern

MARCH 10, 2025

Care for some news? This post from r/CPA popped up when I was scrolling over the weekend, the turnaround gave me a chuckle. See more: What TF Is Going on With CPA Exam Pass Rates? New York Times tells the story of an industry accountant turned IRS auditor in Stalled Audits and a Skeleton Staff: Inside Trumps War on the I.R.S.

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Accounting Today

JULY 8, 2025

(Read more: " Tax Strategy: Inside the Senate version of the OBBBA. ") "The new law has both temporary changes and permanent changes," said Miklos Ringbauer, founder of Miklos CPA in Southern California. For example, the SALT allowance has been capped at $40,000 for 2025. At that point it will drop back to $10,000."

Technology

Going Concern

APRIL 28, 2025

A CPA Journal article asks “ Did the CPA Evolution Leave Educators Behind? ” Authors Walied Keshk, PhD, CPA and Edward J. Among other things, the survey inquired about respondents readiness to adapt their courses and teaching methods to the new CPA exam requirements.

CPA

Going Concern

JANUARY 31, 2025

Latest Goldstein Lieberman acquisition boosts CPA firm into nations top 1% [ NJBIZ ] Um that’s some iffy math there considering no one has heard of either of these firms and they don’t rank on the IPA 500. One of the regions largest CPA firms is getting bigger, following Goldstein Lieberman & Co.

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Going Concern

JUNE 23, 2025

What’s funny is this paragraph they added to the article: AICPA leadership monitored the debate about the PCAOB’s future, showing general support for the role of the auditor in assuring public trust regardless of how supporting regulatory agencies are structured. per cent lower by Friday’s closing bell in New York.

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Accounting Today

JULY 3, 2025

Democrats could do little, but House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, gave a marathon speech on Thursday to delay passage of the bill, which he called the "one big ugly bill," decrying the extensive cutbacks in Medicaid and nutrition assistance for the poor.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 24, 2023

Founded in 1897, the NYSSCPA offers networking opportunities for CPAs, along with CPE courses and conferences, over 50 committees that cover various specializations, and also publishes the CPA Journal. NYSSCPA currently has 15 chapters throughout the state of New York and is currently governed by a 39-member board of directors.

New York

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? Stanton was licensed as a certified public accountant in New York in 1988 and had previously run his own firm. Auditors have done so too.

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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.

CPA

Going Concern

JUNE 23, 2023

The CPA Journal ] Generation Z is beginning to enter the workforce, bringing with it a demographic shift that will affect every facet of American society, including the accounting profession. That train departed the station in March of 2020,” says Brandon Smith, chief human resources officer at LMC in New York City.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Sadly, I had to argue with them over their own language in black and white on how… — Eric Pierre, CPA (@yourfavecpa) February 22, 2024 Deloitte’s Adam Powick wrestles with the complaints of former staff and directors about the pressure to perform in a gruelling corporate culture. in last 12 months. That is in the 19-story KPMG Plaza.

CPA

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 15, 2024

The New York-based company extended its 125,000-square-foot lease at 55 Second St. Audit The auditor’s role in supply chain due diligence [ Compliance Week ] A recent New York Times report detailed alleged examples of migrant children working for U.S. through September 2026, a spokesperson confirmed.

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Going Concern

MAY 12, 2023

He will be starting as an investment-banking analyst for the technology, media and communications team in New York City at Lincoln International this summer. Fired: job search or CPA exam? The post Friday Footnotes: CPA Exam Scares Accounting Majors Away; EY Loses Fees in China | 5.12.23

CPA

Going Concern

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Ironically, Ergo’s auditor is Mazars, a big rival of Grant Thornton among the second tier of Irish accounting firms. Grant Thornton were auditors until McCann became Ergo’s chairman in 2015. When I went on the board here we had to resign as auditors.” The number of non-CPA professionals employed by the St.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Top 20 accounting firm Armanino has received a minority investment from Further Global Capital Management, a New York-based employee-owned private equity firm that makes investments in businesses within the financial services industry. Collectively, these entities and the subsidiaries will continue under the brand name Armanino.

cpa firm

Going Concern

JANUARY 23, 2023

“Banks and auditors never reported any problems.” District Court judge in the Southern District of New York granted on Friday Deloitte LLP’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act that was filed in October of 2021. San Diego Business Journal ] A U.S.

public accounting

Going Concern

MAY 20, 2024

Illinois CPA Society has issued a new pipeline report: Re-Decoding the Decline. The findings provide invaluable insights the CPA profession and its stakeholders cannot ignore while trying to counter the persistent decline in the number of individuals pursuing the CPA credential. Can someone send us those slides ?

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Going Concern

MAY 26, 2023

Long Read How a Pandemic-Era Program Became a Magnet for Fraud [ New York Times ] Amid the onset of the pandemic in 2020, as large swaths of the economy went into lockdown, Washington set up various programs to help keep businesses and their workers afloat. Have a safe Memorial Day. million over a decade.

public accounting

Going Concern

MARCH 22, 2024

Rising through the ranks at the firm, his career path later took him to London, New York, and Munich serving as EY Global’s director of capital markets, as well as EY’s US chief accountant. But until a deferral is confirmed, CPAs must consider which role they will serve for clients required to file when the CTA becomes effective.

Minnesota

Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The New York resident found accounting work monotonous, with little room for creativity or growth, and maximum salaries weren’t as high as he would have liked. The AICPA often cites that the large pool of retiring Baby Boomers will leave a gaping hole in the supply of experienced CPAs.” .” Ruh-oh.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

SEC as EQCF: Statement on Public Company Accounting Oversight Board; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rules on a Firm’s System of Quality Control and Related Amendments to PCAOB Standards [ Statement by SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce ] Auditors play a critical role in maintaining healthy capital markets. Talent HEY, EMPLOYERS! The Future!

Kansas

CPA Practice

MAY 24, 2024

Hosts Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley, CPA, are joined by guest Will Zacher, co-founder of AIgency Partners , to discuss a recent study on how artificial intelligence fared when attempting to pass the CPA exam. And of course, Claude Opus, had passed multiple choice sections of the CPA examined both auditing and financial reporting.

CPA

Going Concern

MAY 31, 2024

Municipal Dumpster Fires Woonsocket city council respond to auditors abruptly quitting [ WLNE Providence ] Shout-out Mary Sahady who finally had enough of this b t and told this messy client to get bent. Woonsocket officials are hoping city auditors will change their mind, after they abruptly quit this past week. It went bankrupt.

auditor

Going Concern

JANUARY 6, 2023

“When you have a massive financial collapse like FTX, there are going to be many, many institutions—and perhaps individuals—who allegedly profited improperly along the way,” said Samuel Issacharoff, a New York University law professor. 2024 CPA Exam Blueprints released [ Journal of Accountancy ]. ” Employment.

cpa firm

Going Concern

MARCH 11, 2022

New York Times ] The Internal Revenue Service said on Thursday that it planned a hiring spree this tax season as it tries to clear a backlog of more than 20 million unprocessed tax returns from previous years. Auditors really are a class of their own. plans to hire 10,000 workers to clear a tax return backlog. [

auditor

Going Concern

MARCH 8, 2024

District Court for the Southern District of New York said. Auditors must respond appropriately when they encounter warning signs,” said PCAOB Chair Erica Y. banks and had long audited Long Island-based New York Community. When conducting the fiscal year 2021 audit of Tingo, Inc.,

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CPA Practice

JULY 17, 2024

For founders, regardless of whether they use a Big Four auditor, an independent firm, or an automated DIY solution, this headache will not affect tax season, says Richmond. Filling the CPA Gap A new generation of startups has made this problem their business. It is scary in the U.S. Other VCs would seem to agree.

Account

Going Concern

JULY 10, 2023

New to Crain’s top 25 is New York-based KPMG. Other leading accounting firms such as New York-based Deloitte and Ernst & Young also reported upticks in their Chicago headcounts. On average, these 25 employers, which are headquartered outside the city, only saw local employment grow by 0.3%

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