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Friday Footnotes: EYers Fed Up; KPMG Love Triangle; CGMA For Young’uns | 11.19.21
EY faces staff backlash over handling of sexual harassment case [Financial Times] EY is facing […]
Friday Footnotes: More Big 4 Lawsuits; The White Way In the UK; EY-Parthenon Found a Guy | 11.12.21
KPMG Sued for $600 Million Over Alleged Sloppy Auditing in Dubai’s Abraaj Scandal [Bloomberg] KPMG […]
Friday Footnotes: KPMG Sued (Again); Accounting For Weed; Less Travel Equals Profit For EY Partners | 11.5.21
.CPA Web Domain Launches in Canada [Business Wire] The restricted web domain, administered by the […]
Friday Footnotes: A Very Guilty Accountant; Beware Audit Independence; Grant Thornton Does a Thing | 10.29.21
Wealthy retired accountant is found guilty of murder [Daily Mail] The pregnant daughter of a […]
Friday Footnotes: Deloitte Complains Its Way to a Contract; Deficiencies Abound; Beyond the Windowless Audit Room | 10.22.21
How CPAs can rise above a polarized political climate [Journal of Accountancy] Aside from being […]
Friday Footnotes: Deloitte Sued; RSM Sued; PwC Not Sued But Incompetent | 10.15.21
‘What do you actually do?’: Redditors scratch heads at consulting firms [Yahoo News] We’ve often […]
Friday Footnotes: Firm Fined For Data Breach; Deloitte Named Most Attractive; EY Expands Legal Arm | 10.8.21
FRC’s changes to fraud auditing standard explained [ICAEW Insights] The Financial Reporting Council (FRC)’s UK […]
Friday Footnotes: Deloitte’s Plush Profits; Britney’s New CPA Conservator; KPMG Gives a Partner the Boot | 10.1.21
Deloitte UK profits boosted by public sector pandemic work [Financial Times] Deloitte has confirmed a […]
Friday Footnotes: PwC Has an Evergrande Problem; Too Hard to Be a CPA; Big 4 Rot | 9.24.21
China Evergrande Auditor Gave Clean Bill of Health Despite Debt [Wall Street Journal] Last year […]
Number of the Day: 53
The average age of a non-Big 4 public accounting firm partner hasn’t really changed at […]
Friday Footnotes: PwC Pays the Poors Less; Deloitte’s New Minis; BDO Brings on Audit Staff | 9.17.21
Malaysia says auditor KPMG to pay $80 million in 1MDB settlement [Reuters] Malaysia said on […]