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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big 4 Firms Hate Going Concern (Warnings, That Is); Being a Whistleblower Blows | 5.20.24

Going Concern

Auditors are required to include a going-concern warning if they believe there is a risk that the company may go bankrupt, rather than making a prediction that it will. The quality control standard represents the give and take of a decade’s worth of consideration on how to improve audit quality among auditors of public companies.

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AuditClub Appoints PwC Veteran in Leadership Expansion

CPA Practice

Brian Yujuico has been named vice president and senior chief auditor at AuditClub, the Audit Service Center and creator of the innovative auditors-as-a-service model. In this newly created role, Yujuico, a Certified Public Accountant, will oversee day-to-day activities of the growing team of chief auditors, crew and cadets.

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King Charles Gives Audit Reform a Shout-Out, Guy Not at Big 4 Complains Big 4 Gets All the Business

Going Concern

Audit reform was supposed to be included in the last King’s Speech but was noticeably absent, an omission deemed “very disappointing” by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) at that time. This cannot be allowed to go on,” he said. After all, four eyes see more than two.

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Here’s How Mid-Tier Accounting Firms Are Feeling About Private Equity and M&A

Going Concern

As mentioned in this week’s news brief, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) put together a snazzy little report on the state of mid-tier firms based on a survey of managing partners. This is gonna be long and there’s no TLDR. Get over it.

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Professor Accuses Professional Accountant Body of Hoarding Fines Like Smaug Hoards Gold

Going Concern

It appears the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has finally pushed Sheffield University’s Richard Murphy over the edge. The Professor of Accounting Practice at Sheffield’s Management School issued a new report chastising the group for hoarding funds.

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UK Accounting Watchdog Ramps Up Fines

PYMNTS

The newly aggressive tactics suggest the FRC took note of criticism by policymakers that the regulator was ineffective and “toothless” to address substandard auditing by the nation’s Big Four auditors: KPMG, PwC, Ernst & Young and Deloitte. Meanwhile, other lawmakers have called on the FTC and the U.K.’s

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The Age of the Non-CPA; PwC Explains the Chevron Thing | 7.29.24

Going Concern

All this time we thought it was going to be robots that take accounting jobs, it was Indians all along. Oh and reminder: the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is working on a plan to consolidate India’s 96,000 little accountancy firms into mega-firms that they think could compete with Big 4 on the global stage.

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