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Friday Footnotes: Big 4 Nixes Legal Practices; EY Looks the Other Way; Auditors Get Lectured Again | 10.14.22

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PYA, a Top 100 accounting firm and one of the nation’s largest privately held healthcare consulting firms, is pleased to announce it is opening a seventh office location in Charlotte, North Carolina. Where climate change isn’t global: auditing [ Financial Times Opinion ]. appeared first on Going Concern.

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

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Audit PCAOB offers forum for auditors; SEC releases several updates [ Journal of Accountancy ] Days after issuing a proposal to strengthen individual accountability for firm violations in audits, the PCAOB has announced a livestreamed forum aimed at educating auditors on how to avoid deficiencies. Williams said in a news release.

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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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Audit “When you are a hammer, the world is a nail” – SEC and PCAOB Senior Staff Signal Increased SEC and PCAOB Gatekeeper Enforcement [ Lexology ] SEC Enforcement and PCAOB Enforcement both are pursuing more significant sanctions against auditors, particularly with respect to civil money penalties. 31 is still not finished.

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Friday Footnotes: An Outsourcing Shortage Now Too?; Finally, Some Disruption; PwC Haters Celebrate Government Inquiry | 3.17.23

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creating general ledgers, organizing financial statements, and handling pricing and invoicing. Debunking common myths about auditors, auditing [ The Journal Record ] The people of Oklahoma get a lesson on what audit is.

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Helping Non-finance Professionals Utilize Cash Flow Forecasting

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Terrell (00:01:59) – I didn’t want to be an auditor. Tom (00:06:10) – So a lot of our financial statement conversation, maybe if you are low on revenue, focusing more on how you had fewer hours than what we had forecast or what you needed to have in the bill rate was lower and here is why.

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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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SEC Charges Advisory Firm and Executives with Devising an Elaborate Scheme to Defraud Clients out of More Than $75 Million [ SEC ] The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two North Carolina-based executives, Gregory E. Audit under fire: Is the worst yet to come? China securities regulator says will implement Sino-U.S.