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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Hires Ex-Prisoners; Notes From PwC’s All-Hands; Why CPAs Are Leaving | 4.26.24

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Accountant Shortage PIPCA Survey Sheds Light on What Existing CPAs Want and Why Some are Leaving [ INSIDE Public Accounting ] Accounting firm business models need to change to retain and attract CPAs amid the worst talent shortage in recent history, the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) asserts in a new survey.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Slashes Partner Class; Accounting Firm Rescues Dog; Do We Still Need CPAs? | 4.19.24

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CPAs Have a Branding Problem for the Younger Generation [ CPA Journal ] By Jason L. Ackerman, CPA, CFP, CGMA Probably the hottest topic in the profession over the past few years has been the pipeline problem: Firms can’t find qualified individuals to handle the increasingly complex world that CPAs deal with on an ongoing basis.

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Friday Footnotes: Ex-CPA Leaves Clients in the Lurch Before Tax Day; EY Layoffs; More ERC Concerns | 4.12.24

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ICYMI: These are the most-read articles on Going Concern this week: Tax Preparer Finds Out in the Worst Way Possible That ERC Wasn’t a Free Money Glitch Survey Says: Which Group of Auditors Are Most Satisfied With Their Salaries? the auditor of Tesla Korea, about the company’s financial statements for last year.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Is Tops in M&A Advisory; What You Can Do With a MAcc; EY Consolidates in LatAm | 4.28.23

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New Jersey Society of CPAs Awards $221,500 in Accounting Scholarships [ NJCPA ] The New Jersey Society of CPAs (NJCPA) awarded $221,500 in scholarships to 53 New Jersey-based high school and college students on April 27 at the Pines Manor in Edison. Education What can you do with a master’s degree in accounting? Forget an MBA.

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Friday Footnotes: Deloitte’s Naughty Workpapers; Audit Reform Critics; Clients Getting Dropped Like Mics | 3.4.22

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Meanwhile on Twitter, our friend Sam Antar is still roasting the KPMG auditors (well, technically Peat Marwick) who let the Crazy Eddie fraud slip through their horny little fingers: Two hookers and an auditor. in Tax Season ‘Chaos’ [ New York Times ] At the Internal Revenue Service’s sprawling Kansas City, Mo.,

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Identical Twins Head to Deloitte; TWO PwC Leaks; VA Tackles 150 | 5.15.23

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Virginia Society of CPAs is tackling the question “ is 150 too many? ” For nearly the past two decades, prospective CPAs in Virginia have had to undertake 150 hours of education before becoming licensed. But a declining CPA pipeline has accountants asking: Is the 150 now a barrier to becoming a CPA?

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Gen Z Ruins Accounting; EY Hammers Out Some Deets; Internal Control Controversy | 12.05.22

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Cohen and Company, CPAs of Rockville, Maryland, merged into Marcum effective December 1, adding to Marcum’s presence in the Mid-Atlantic. Scupin Professor at the University of Kansas School of Business. They assume since management is doing the internal control evaluation themselves, the auditor opinion does not matter.

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