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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

The combination of too few professionals and high demand is pushing firm leaders to merge up, outsource tax work and hire non-CPAs, among other strategies. They seem to be working so far, as firms are growing fast and producing impressive financial results. Such suggestions are false. appeared first on Going Concern. .

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

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Charlotte Business Journal ranked the largest local firms by number of staff and asked the firms how they’re using AI in their practice: Deloitte tops the list with 1,911 professionals, including 297 CPAs, in its local office, followed by EY with 1,743 professionals and KPMG with 685. Some are finding solutions overseas.

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

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Audit SEC approves new PCAOB audit confirmation standards targeting fraud [ CFO Dive ] The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved a new standard tightening the requirements for auditors when confirming details of an audit, including verifying with a third party assertions made by a client in a financial statement.

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

Going Concern

“A proposal like this could allow for the reinstatement of credit for more than 15,000 CPA candidates and re-open the door for those candidates to complete their journeys to becoming licensed CPAs. The best financial planners or wealth managers will set themselves apart with outstanding soft skills.”

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

Going Concern

The Financial Reporting Council’s Audit Quality team has issued a notice of a proposed sanction on Deloitte, proposing a regulatory penalty of £440k after it was determined that the Big Four firm failed to comply with the auditing framework in its audit of a listed company’s 2018 financial statements.

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