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Role of CPAs in the Overall Economy

Withum

Public accounting is a great profession performing a vital function for businesses, not-for-profit organizations and individuals in many different areas of the overall economy. 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.

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Friday Footnotes: The ERC Problem; EY Double Dips; Stress Less in Public Accounting | 5.26.23

Going Concern

Audit Bitcoin Miner Riot Dumps Auditor for ‘Big Four’ Accounting Firm [ Blockworks ] Riot Platforms is looking to switch accounting firms as the landscape for crypto company auditors remains in flux. Marcum had audited Riot’s consolidated financial statements for the fiscal years between 2018 and 2022.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Details on Grant Thornton’s PE Deal; What Is ‘Presented Fairly’ Anyway? | 5.13.24

Going Concern

We moved the requirements addressing the engagement partner’s responsibility for due professional care into a separate paragraph to highlight the important role engagement partners play and to help draw a distinction between the responsibilities applicable to all auditors and those that are incremental for engagement partners.

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Are Auditors Becoming as Hard to Find as a PS5?

Going Concern

Supply shortages include CPAs but the accounting pipeline problem as it’s called didn’t happen because of or due to the pandemic. 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. It’s been happening for years.

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PCAOB Has Handed Out a Slew of Punishments to Audit Firms Recently

CPA Practice

Shortly after criticizing audit firms for the number of errors they made on public company audits reviewed by PCAOB inspectors last year, the audit watchdog doled out sanctions to 12 accounting firms from July 28 to Aug. Top 60 accounting firm Blue & Co. 11 for breaking various auditing rules. Snodgrass, Mancera S.C.,

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ESG and data: Management tips for tax firm leaders

ThomsonReuters

Governance risks include financial reporting , fraud prevention, executive pay transparency, and overall business dealings of the company. Accountants and auditors have an expanding role to play in determining the integrity of a company’s disclosure of ESG topics.

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Ensuring Climate ESG Auditing Excellence: How Your Trusted Accounting Partner Makes the Difference

Withum

Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) are the trusted providers of most companies for financial auditing and have been supporting the assurance of non-financial ESG and climate information for decades. Future-looking information: Financial statements usually just look at the previous fiscal years’ balance sheets.

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