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EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client (UPDATE)
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Friday Footnotes: Regulators Turn Their Eye to Offshoring; Auditors Ask “Is It Incompetence or Is It Fraud?” | 7.24.26
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. While you're here, subscribe to our newsletter to…
EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client (UPDATE)
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Big 4 Firm With AI Quotas Unironically Explains Why AI Quotas Are Such a Terrible Idea in Latest Survey
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Beware This Hot New Scam: LinkedIn Job Hunt Takes a Sharp Detour Into Attempted Bank Emptying
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Sometimes these opportunities arise at logical places and times like a client meeting or maybe during a training session. It's also possible for these opportunities to arise at unexpected times like at a team lunch when you have broccoli stuck in your teeth or when you are forced pull an LBJ on a colleague because, well, these things happen.
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The PCAOB’s Disciplinary Action Against Deloitte Is the Latest Embarrassment for the Auditing Profession
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Accounting News Roundup: What You Need to Know About Withholding; Tax Credits By State; Under the Bus, You Thrown | 10.23.13
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Deloitte Fined $2M for Allowing Suspended Audit Partner to Keep on Auditing
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