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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. We were not willing to let Mr Carter continue practising.”

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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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The combination of too few professionals and high demand is pushing firm leaders to merge up, outsource tax work and hire non-CPAs, among other strategies. Beginning no later than 2011, Fulton was aware that Nix ran an illegal gambling business. The question now is whether year-over-year growth of 18% will continue next year.”

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY’s Paying Big For the Everest Failure; PwC UK Delays Promotions | 2.12.24

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Someone you know spoke to NPR’s Marketplace for this story: Some accountants are turning away new customers this tax season Tax filing season is here and if you’ve been putting off finding a CPA, good luck. How did one American firm gain 20 net new auditor engagements? “ Fiscal arrogance ” is an awesome phrase.

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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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Leadership PwC Vets Finalists for Top Job as Industry Meets AI, Gen Z Era [ Bloomberg Tax ] PwC’s next leader will confront the challenges of rapidly advancing technology, recruiting and training an evolving workforce, and keeping up with the needs of its core accounting clients. I get my tax documents in early. Fair enough.

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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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Big 4 Big Four Lobby Congress on Accounting Pipeline, AI, Crypto [ Bloomberg Tax ] PwC spent the most at $3.27 In a summary of the report, Linklaters said six unidentified partners outside Australia should have asked where the tax information had come from and that disciplinary action had been taken against them. “Win big?

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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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Auditors say accountant shortage ramps up work pressure: CAQ [ CFO Dive ] A shortage of accountants has intensified pressure and ramped up workloads for accounting teams at U.S. The new standard will help auditors detect fraud and better protect investors now and into the future,” PCAOB Chair Erica Williams said Monday. Cohen & Co.,

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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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On top of a strong background in finance, both fields require extensive knowledge of tax law, and those are just the beginning of the hard skills needed to excel. So that’s not a scripted set of results, yet it is known prior to the event, and gambling is legal on the Oscars.