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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Consulting Really Sucks Right Now; Inside a PwC Leadership Race | 3.25.24

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Britain’s accounting watchdog said on Monday it would scrap a planned increase in staff because of continued delay in obtaining new powers to crack down on lax auditors after a string of high-profile company failures.

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A Certain Big 4 Firm Gets Another Chance to Screw Up a State’s Unemployment Benefits System

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Hopefully Uncle D will do a bang-up job this time for the state of Michigan, unlike some of the other state unemployment benefits systems it has handled (or mishandled) like Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and California. The state of Michigan last month reached a settlement in one of the class-action lawsuits against the agency for $20 million.

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Tuesday Morning Accounting News Brief: A New Kind of Audit Quality Report; Merger Mania; Skilled Talent, Not Newbies | 5.28.24

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Nearby, a Canadian firm is elbowing its way into the United States : Melo, a Leamington, Ontario, Canada-based accounting, tax, legal, and financial advisory firm, has acquired Edwards, Ellis & Associates, which has offices in Troy and Ann Arbor (Michigan). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. – More than 1.2

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Friday Footnotes: Know Your Value; Retired EY Partners Complain; ‘Rest For Success’ | 2.3.23

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Ironically, Ergo’s auditor is Mazars, a big rival of Grant Thornton among the second tier of Irish accounting firms. Grant Thornton were auditors until McCann became Ergo’s chairman in 2015. When I went on the board here we had to resign as auditors.” When is he changing back? “Ha Ha ha,” he chuckles. Mazars do a good job.

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Friday Footnotes: Opinions!; EY’s Blockchain Aspirations; KPMG Junior Reprimanded | 9.30.22

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Rehmann, a Top 40 Firm based in Troy, Michigan, is continuing to expand its footprint in Florida by adding Vestal & Wiler, a firm based in Orlando, effective Nov. At trial, Vatican auditor says he was shocked by misuse of funds [ Catholic News Service ]. Rehmann merges in Vestal & Wiler [ Accounting Today ].

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Sales tax and nonprofits

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Most states, like Michigan , require special registration for exemption. During a sales tax audit, one of the first requests from the auditor will be for copies of all exemption certificates for any exemptions claimed on sales tax returns. But as always with sales tax, rules vary state to state. How important are these certificates?

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Is Tops in M&A Advisory; What You Can Do With a MAcc; EY Consolidates in LatAm | 4.28.23

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The setback for auditor partners is especially severe when their ICOs are somewhat subjective and when they focus on more important clients, according to the study published last month by academics at the University of Arkansas, Colorado State University and the University of Kansas. There’s one problem.

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