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Friday Footnotes: Higher Salaries Lead to Higher Fees; EY Auditors Quit; Senator Rags on Greedy Accounting Firms | 1.27.23

Going Concern

Big 4 EY auditors escape potential Wirecard sanctions after leaving profession [ Financial Times ] Germany’s audit watchdog closed investigations against four current and former EY auditors involved in inspecting collapsed payments firm Wirecard after they handed back their professional licences and left the profession earlier this month.

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Friday Footnotes: EY Can’t Hire Tech; John Doe Sues the PCAOB; Auditors Can’t Find Torpedoes and Missiles | 1.20.03

Going Concern

Under rules introduced in 2016, large UK-listed companies are required to change auditor at least every 20 years and to run a competitive tender once a decade. PwC took over from KPMG in 2015 and was eligible to serve until 2034 subject to a competitive tender at the 10-year mark. In 2001, the Pentagon said it would address the issue by 2005.

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Withum Noped Out of Trump Media So Fast

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Over the past week or so, various media outlets have been picking on Trump Media auditor BF Borgers and their 100% PCAOB deficiency rate. BF Borgers has become one of the most prolific auditors of US public companies just 15 years after its foundation, and regulators have warned that it has taken on new clients faster than it can manage.

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Best Practices for Managing a Sales Tax Audit

TaxConnex

Industry observers look for New York, Ohio and New Jersey to soon intensify enforcement. One of your customers undergoing their own audit might produce one of your invoices, resulting in the auditor possibly contacting you for an exemption certificate or other documents. Treat the auditor respectfully.

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IRS Getting Serious About Prosecuting ERC Fraud

CPA Practice

From the Kiplinger Consumer News Service (via TNS). Employee retention credits have been in the news lately. The Department of Justice recently arrested a New Jersey tax preparer for allegedly seeking more than $124 million from the IRS. Filing false employee retention credit claims According to a release from the U.S.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The Least Amount You’ll Make at Big 4; Carmine Gets a Sword Show | 4.22.24

Going Concern

Carmine’s post: The aftermath article goes on: Schmoozing the firm’s Japanese partners alongside Di Sibio was his successor, Janet Truncale, the EY lifer from New Jersey who, in July, takes the reins at the firm she joined as an intern in 1991. EY was not so convivial this time last spring.

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Withum Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Withum

Over the past 50 years, Withum has grown from a small, six-person New Jersey office to a top national firm with over 2500 team members across the United States and overseas. Pat Walsh , Managing Partner and CEO Take a Trip Through Time Withum’s story began around a kitchen table in a New Jersey, Victorian home office.