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

Going Concern

Three of the firms also joined industry efforts to designate accounting as a science, technology, engineering, and math—or STEM—field, according to federal lobbying disclosures. The majority are now using automation for at least some of their operations and this will grow as tech becomes more user intuitive and available.

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

Going Concern

Beginning no later than 2011, Fulton was aware that Nix ran an illegal gambling business. Nonetheless, Fulton knowingly laundered Nix’s illegal gambling proceeds by continuing to provide financial services to Nix and providing access to the financial system. we were first to them with innovative approaches to the problem.

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

Going Concern

Canadian Accountant put out a piece on the auditor shuffle using some Ideagen Audit Analytics data : While the annual data provided to Canadian Accountant by an American data analytics firm always contains a few fascinating odds and ends — and that year was no different — the most recent data available presented a mystery.

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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. That number is 64% globally, according to PwC.

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

Going Concern

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. It adjusts to the use of email and other technology widely adopted in recent decades, and bolsters confirmation procedures with the aim of averting fraud.

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Friday Footnotes: How EY Fights Poaching; Lack of Staff Is Closing Doors; Accounting to Biglaw? | 11.25.22

Going Concern

According to the FRC, it found serious failings in the reviewed audit, which demonstrated a “significant departure from the standards expected of a registered auditor”. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published a new report setting out examples of good practice to improve auditor scepticism and challenge.

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

Going Concern

Your technology strategy will become your talent strategy 2. The journey to zero-day close will drive further adoption of accounting automation 3. So that’s not a scripted set of results, yet it is known prior to the event, and gambling is legal on the Oscars. It seems there is a shortage brewing in The Philippines.