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Friday Footnotes: Inside PwC Cheating; Audit Market Monopoly; AI Anxiety | 12.15.23

Going Concern

There’s a reason the Big Four firms often schedule key staff up to 3,000 hours annually for hundreds of dollars (or GBP) per hour. The 10 Biggest New York City Office Leases of 2023 [ Commercial Observer ] New York City’s leasing stats this year might be worse than in 2022, but at least the top deals are bigger.

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Friday Footnotes: A Billion Dollar AI Audit Startup; Oops, All Independence Violations!; Bipartisan Tax Vote | 2.2.23

Going Concern

Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. And yet the auditing standards have been going up and there have been very few software solutions and tools built for auditors. And there are the same number of hours to do the work that they have been doing.

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