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Friday Footnotes: Consulting Gets Bumpy for New Hires; Cities Sans Accountants; PCAOB Priorities | 4.21.23

Going Concern

Accountant Shortage Leaves Some US Cities Without Credit Ratings [ Bloomberg ] The municipality of Marion had planned to finance a new $10 million firehouse with a bond deal later this year, but that project and others are on pause because the city north of Columbus, Ohio, doesn’t have a credit rating.

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Friday Footnotes: ‘KPMG Did Not Know What They Were Doing’; Are You Boring?; PCAOB Warns About Confirmations | 3.25.22

Going Concern

Many firms turn to third-party service providers to send and receive electronic audit confirmations to and from “confirming parties,” including banks, financial institutions, investment and brokerage firms, and law firms. In some cases, auditing firms may be relying too heavily on such outside companies. PCAOB Spotlight PDF here.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Eff You, Pay Us; Let’s Complain About Auditing Again; RIP to a Real One | 8.14.23

Going Concern

Indeed, regulators have historically taken the approach of where there is one, there are many —whether it is financial services firms, technology companies, or now audit firms, once one major breach of misconduct occurs, regulators take a closer look at the industry at large to understand how deep and wide an issue may be.

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