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ERC IRS Audit Representation: Your Comprehensive FAQ Guide

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Businesses should be prepared to provide documentation supporting their ERC claims, including payroll records, financial statements, employment tax returns, and any other relevant records. Certified Public Accountants (CPAs): CPAs are licensed accountants with expertise in tax matters.

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Friday Footnotes: EY’s Six CEO Candidates; Deloitte UK Partner Payouts Increase Again; IIA Gets Their Way | 9.29.23

Going Concern

What CPAs can learn from Smucker’s [ Accounting Today Voices ] J.M. And CPAs in this space know what that means in terms of legal exposure. Rapid growth is great news for accounting firms. But when it takes place in situations of significant information asymmetry between companies and investors, CPA firms should beware.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Wants to Buy; Losers Dump NFTs For Tax Purposes; CPA Demand in 2031 | 1.9.23

Going Concern

A PCAOB inspections leader offers his insight to auditors at a conference: “The role of the financial statement auditor and the auditing profession continues to be a noble endeavor that has never been more needed and vital to our economic stability and the well-being of our capital markets,” said George Botic, CPA.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Partners Banging the Client Again; Turnstile Data Shows Staff DGAF About RTO | 1.29.24

Going Concern

This is part of why New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s recent signing of “non-CPA ownership” into law is such a big deal. More on the New York non-CPA ownership bill. In the column he referenced this ancient document (August 1993) entitled “The case for non-CPA owners in CPA firms.”

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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

Upon graduation, Mr. Seidman joined the accounting firm of Apfel and Englander and thereafter enrolled in night school at New York University, where he earned a law degree and served on the law review. They seem to be working so far, as firms are growing fast and producing impressive financial results.

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Friday Footnotes: Behemoth Big 4 Firms Get Behemothier; Audits Get Harder; Eliminate Clients! | 11.11.22

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There’s definitely an accountant shortage out there’: MBAs have become the go-to degree and companies are struggling to hire enough CPAs [ Fortune ]. FTX Trading LLC, the exchange’s international arm, worked with auditing firm Prager Metis, according to financial statements seen Friday by CoinDesk. Accounting Firm M&A.

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Friday Footnotes: The ERC Problem; EY Double Dips; Stress Less in Public Accounting | 5.26.23

Going Concern

Long Read How a Pandemic-Era Program Became a Magnet for Fraud [ New York Times ] Amid the onset of the pandemic in 2020, as large swaths of the economy went into lockdown, Washington set up various programs to help keep businesses and their workers afloat. Have a safe Memorial Day. Here’s the problem: The meaning has become muddled.