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Friday Footnotes: The Profession vs. Gen Z; CPA Firms Get Back to the Office; Deloitte Quits | 6.23.23

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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. Expect 2023 enforcement against auditors to focus on quality control, culture, ethics and integrity. My concern is that it goes beyond KPMG.”

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Accountants Behaving Badly: Kickback Schemes, Hiding Money From the IRS, Embezzlement Spree

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Plus, Pennsylvania accountant loves tax evasion, North Carolina CPA indicted on securities fraud charge, and Kentucky accountant gets jail time for sex trafficking. Hammer, who pleaded guilty in August 2018 to one count of filing a false tax return, was the financial officer for various companies controlled by Michael D.

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Accountants Behaving Badly: Police Department Accountant Couldn’t Be Bothered, PPP Loan Fraud, and a Creepy Tax Preparer

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Attorney’s Office, Western District of North Carolina ] A federal grand jury in Charlotte has indicted Mandy Deann Urban, 47, formerly of Charlotte, with wire fraud, for allegedly embezzling more than $1.1 Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. million from her employer, announced Dena J.

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Friday Footnotes: Why Private Equity Loves the Profession; A Very Naughty KPMG Employee; WTF PwC Guy | 4.5.24

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CPA licensure program off to ‘promising’ start [ Journal of Accountancy ] 38 people huh? The Experience, Learn & Earn (ELE) program, a pilot program designed to help accounting graduates earn required academic credits for CPA licensure, has received early positive reviews. million in 2023 while generating total revenues of $4.1

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Friday Footnotes: EY Split Drags Out; Advisory Firm Defrauds Clients; Student Loan Forgiveness and Taxes | 9.2.22

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Our firm now has the capacity to provide a much more diverse range of business and personal services than ever before, and our growing team of talented professionals leverages new and emerging skills to help our clients succeed,” said Robert Lange, III, CPA and Managing Partner of CLH. Accounting Firm M&A.

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Friday Footnotes: Remembering Legend Sid Kess; Andersen’s Doing Great; Poland Banned Deloitte From Auditing? | 9.22.23

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Both Mendlowitz and his father, also a CPA, attended the CUNY school. Summing up Sid: The ultimate CPA and friend to all [ Journal of Accountancy podcast ] Plenty of CPAs can say they learned something from Sid Kess, who died last week at age 97. Williams said in a news release.

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Friday Footnotes: Big 4 Culture Gets Slammed Again; Audit Leads the Way in AI; Small Firm Gripes | 11.10.23

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They also expect auditors to understand and evaluate processes and controls, analyze transaction-level data for anomalies, and test more data in real-time,” said Scott Flynn, KPMG vice chair—Audit, in a news release. Earnest and Randell were separately convicted of individual counts of preparing false tax returns.

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