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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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TPB slaps 5-year ban on accountant involved in $26m fraud [ Accountants Daily ] The Tax Practitioners Board has slapped a five-year ban on a Sydney accountant charged with stealing $26 million through his firm to fund a lavish lifestyle and gambling addiction.

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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Pays High Schoolers 20 Bucks an Hour; Deloitte Cyberattacked Too; IRS on ERC | 7.28.23

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INSIDE Public Accounting Releases Its Annual Rankings and Analysis of the Nation’s Largest, Fast-Growing Public Accounting Firms [ INSIDE Public Accounting ] “The labor shortage is a major driver behind the behavior of the IPA 100 firms,” says Charles Hylan, managing director at The Growth Partnership, IPA’s parent company.

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Friday Footnotes: Anyone Wanna Work in Hollywood?; Profit-Hungry CEOs Love Gen AI; KPMG’s SF Future | 1.19.24

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ICYMI | Get Ready for the Future of Auditing [ CPA Journal ] The increasing use of technology is changing how businesses operate, which methodology and technology auditors use, and what career paths they follow. According to court documents, Stewart was employed as a certified public accountant in Bakersfield. Talbert announced.

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Friday Footnotes: How Much Big 4 Spent on Lobbying Last Year; Super Bowl Bets; CFOs Feeling Good | 2.9.24

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‘You gotta pay the piper’ on your winnings, says tax expert [ NBC10 Philadelphia ] All gambling winnings are considered taxable income by the Internal Revenue Service, even if you aren’t a professional gambler. You gotta pay the piper,” Romeo Razi, a certified public accountant based in Las Vegas, tells CNBC Make It.

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Friday Footnotes: Accountant Shortage Ramps Up Work Pressure; Celebrities’ Trusted CPAs; ERC Reverse Card | 12.8.23

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Expand the accounting pipeline with a mentorship circle [ Journal of Accountancy ] At a time when the CPA pipeline is running slow, mentoring can be a powerful tool to recruit potentially interested students into accounting and guide them to careers in the profession. The SEC approved the standard on Dec.

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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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Restoring Exam credits expired during COVID would help address CPA shortage [ AICPA ] The accounting profession is confronted with a talent shortage, and reinstating CPA exam credits that have expired since January 1, 2020, could have an immediate impact on our CPA pipeline.

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Fourteen People Who Inspired Future Tax Criminals in 2022

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Mentioned in: Friday Footnotes: Why People Leave Public Accounting; Audit Workloads Up; Terrorist Clients (Literally) | 12.2.22 Burnell, instead, spent the money on gambling and luxury items, including private jet trips, designer merchandise and luxury cars. million, significantly more than it was worth.

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