10 Things We Learned During #AuditorProud Day 2019
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that today is the fifth annual auditor lovefest known as #AuditorProud Day. There have been a lot of photos and videos posted on social media today of auditors holding balloons, wearing foam fingers, forcing awkward smiles, striking unnatural poses, and eating food of all kinds. Auditors […]
Exposure Drafts: Being #AuditorProud Means Not Having to Say, “I’ll be home for dinner.”
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#AuditorProud Day Hits the Trifecta
Has it been a year already? The third annual #AuditorProud Day is upon us and it’s building momentum. Last year, 115 countries participated posting over 14,000 tweets and 4,000 Instagram photos. Kiwis got into the act early: Happy #AuditorProud Day! Auditors instil trust and confidence & have indispensable role in capital market system #CAANZ @chartered_accts […]
A Poem for #AuditorProud Day
I am an auditor. I am proud. Say it with me nice and loud. I am an auditor. I am proud. I’m a proud auditor, no exceptions allowed. I audit all day, I audit all night. I am proud to audit with all my might. Sure we screw up now and then: Enron, WordCom, the […]
PwC’s 2017 to Forget Tour Rolls On
PwC, the Big 4 accounting firm most likely to request a mulligan on 2017, has been censured and fined $1 million by the PCAOB for violations in its audit of Merrill Lynch. The PCAOB order follows a SEC action against Merrill from last year after the broker “held tens of billions of dollars” of customer […]
Ukraine Yanks PwC’s Bank Audit License
From the Financial Times, the National Bank of Ukraine “announced it had pulled [PwC’s] domestic bank auditing rights for failing in prior audits to identify a $5.5bn balance-sheet hole at PrivatBank, the country’s largest lender.” Look for a press release stating that the annexation of Crimea was totally legal from the firm in the coming […]
Brace Yourself for the #AuditorProud Social Media Blitz
Ding. Ding. Are you ready for Round 2? It’s the second annual #AuditorProud day. Hey, wait a second. Wasn’t it in December last year? Actually, yes. At least we know now that the folks over at the Center for Audit Quality took a haphazard approach when selecting the day and it’s totally random. But hey, […]
Which Popular Accounting Hashtag Should You Use? An Explainer
You cannot deny the chaotic beauty of Twitter. There's something oddly soothing watching millions of voices shout into the void with little regard for who will be listening. Hashtags provide some method to the madness, yet each retains its own flavor of ridiculous. In the accounting world, I've noticed 3 hashtags emerge: #auditorproud, #BusySeasonProblems and […]
Don’t Worry Tax People, You Have a Lame Hashtag, Too
Last Thursday, all sorts of auditors who don't know what hashtags are bumrushed social media to tell #AuditorProud stories. I don't know whether or not #AuditorProud was ever trending on Twitter, but I do know that whatever people were tweeting, it was more worthy of your time than anything Donald Trump managed to share. Now, […]
Who’s #AuditorProud?
So here's a thing that is happening tomorrow: Use #AuditorProud & #PwC on Thursday to share your pride in the #accounting profession! pic.twitter.com/kp6M4TwozG — Bob Moritz (@Bob_Moritz) December 8, 2015 This whole thing is being spearheaded by the Center for Audit Quality who put out a fact sheet for anyone who's not familiar with how […]