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The PwC Partner Class Will Be Much Smaller This Year

Going Concern

WSJ: PricewaterhouseCoopers is looking to shrink its new class of U.S. Of the 283 new partners and principals in 2022, 203 of them were in ‘Consulting Solutions,’ almost three times as many as assurance and tax promotions that year (76) if we’re being generous with the math for simplicity’s sake.

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Rumor: Mid-Tier Firms Are Getting Out of the Public Company Audit Game

Going Concern

It does look like CBIZ has left or is leaving the space. ” Per Ideagen Audit Analytics’ “ Who Audits Public Companies ” published in June, as of May 14, 2023 there were 258 firms conducting audits for 6,950 Securities and Exchange Commission registrants. I’ll do some digging in the meantime.

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2024 Guide to State Sales Tax Holidays

CPA Practice

Sales tax holidays typically last for a day, a weekend, or a week, though they’ve been known to go on for months or even years (we’re looking at you, Florida and Tennessee). on the first Saturday of August and ends at 11:59 p.m. A vacation from sales tax, if you will. Do tax-free weekends have price restrictions? the following Sunday.

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The Big 4 Ranks Are Thinning Out Again

Going Concern

for the year through June: While hiring soared in the wake of the pandemic, other data sets show exits were also rising. In 2022, roughly 56,600 people collectively left the firms, up 8.3% through June from the year-earlier period, to about 21,400 in the U.S., In the U.S. from a year earlier in the Revelio data. Why not both.

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Looks Like PwC Australia Is Getting in Trouble With the PCAOB For Failing to Report an ‘Event’

Going Concern

It was Jan 22, 2023 when AFR first reported a PwC partner leaked government tax plans to clients and November 16, 2022 when the Tax Practitioners Board (the TPB) decided to impose an Order on PwC under section 30-20 of the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 (TASA) related to said partner leaking tax plans to clients (and his colleagues).

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The PCAOB Just Handed Out Its Biggest Fine to Date to Some KPMG Cheaters

Going Concern

First, the earlier reporting. For example, starting in June 2020, the firm was aware that (1) answer sharing had occurred at a KPMG service delivery center serving KPMG Netherlands and KPMG LLP (United Kingdom) and (2) the sharing had extended to the U.K. Not just a fine. firm’s personnel. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

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Top Pension Funds Saw Largest Fall in Assets in 20 Years

CPA Practice

The world’s largest 300 pension funds saw their assets decline for the first time since 2018, according to this year’s Global Top 300 Pensions Funds conducted by WTW’s Thinking Ahead Institute. By the end of 2022, combined assets of the world’s top 300 pension funds had decreased by 12.9% during 2022, compared with a decrease of 10.6%