PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

Ernst & Young ( EY ), the global accounting firm hired to verify Wirecard’s financials, failed to request crucial information from a Singapore bank where the German payment processor claimed it had up to 1 billion euros ($1.1 The big question for me is what on earth did EY do when they signed off the accounts?”

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CFO Dive

JUNE 22, 2022

The new requirements come as many companies have expanded their operations globally, leading to an increase in audits executed by multiple accounting firms.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

’s Big Four accountancy firms — KPMG , PwC , EY and Deloitte — have escaped a forced breakup from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), The Guardia n reported on Tuesday (Dec. ” “Most people will never read an auditor’s opinion on a company’s accounts,” he said. ”

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

The Big Four accounting firms will have to put their United Kingdom auditing and consulting practices in separate business units by 2024, but may keep them within the same parent companies, under regulations announced today by the Financial Reporting Council. The FRC notified the firms of its intent to compel changes in March.

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CFO News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The exchanges had sought a clarification from the company after Business Standard reported that the embattled Adani group had appointed accountancy firm Grant Thornton for an independent audit of some of its companies in a bid to come clean of the damning allegations levelled by the US short-seller Hindenburg Research and to assure investors and regulators. (..)

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2019

s so-called Big Four accountancy firms — KPMG, PwC, EY and Deloitte — have reportedly failed to reach audit quality standards set by the Financial Reporting Council , Reuters reported this week. Only 75 percent of the audits of the U.K.’s s largest 350 public firms met that 90 percent performance threshold.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2020

s audit regulator, announced plans this week to break up the dominance of the largest four accounting firms, Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC , according to the Financial Times. The regulator issued letters to those firms, known as the Big Four, Thursday. She said the goal was for audits to be “clear and transparent.”.

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The Charity CFO

AUGUST 15, 2023

Myths of Nonprofit Accounting and Why They Matter to Job Seekers Unfortunately, many job seekers fall victim to the stereotypes and believe the myths surrounding nonprofit accounting. In this section, we will debunk the three most common nonprofit accounting myths. Ready to dive deep into this exciting realm?

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 21, 2022

And the issue of restricted funds presents unique bookkeeping and accounting challenges for a nonprofit that a for-profit company doesn’t face. This accounting system is called fund accounting. This accounting system is called fund accounting. Who’s Required to Use Fund Accounting? .

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CFO News

JULY 16, 2023

The size of the contract will require the Big Four accounting firm to call in staff from other countries to work on the audit, two people told the FT. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which has been Credit Suisse's auditor since 2020, will audit the acquired bank's accounts for 2023, according to the newspaper.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

As the fallout from Wirecard ’s troubles unfold, Germany’s deputy finance minister has called for radical solutions to fix how accounting firms are regulated, the Financial Times reported. Its founder and CEO Markus Braun, 51, resigned and was later arrested on charges of misrepresenting Wirecard’s accounts and market manipulation.

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CFO News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Kishore Biyani, founder of the Future Group, has challenged the forensic audit process and report submitted by accounting firm BDO India LLP and its lender, Bank of India, at the Bombay High Court. This development comes after Bank of India asked Future Retail and its promoters to respond to a forensic audit report.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Munich prosecutors have launched an investigation into the Ernst & Young ( EY ) audit of Wirecard AG, compounding the firm’s troubles associated with $2.3 EY’s Wirecard fiasco triggered a 90 percent freefall in its share price in June, while critics have come down on the accounting firm for not noticing billions were missing.

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CFO Talks

JULY 5, 2022

Join the SAIBA Tour to India as we attend the 21st IFAC World Congress of Accountants. This year’s World Congress of Accountants 2022, will be hosted by the Institute of Charteded Accountants of India in Mumbai, India. Professional Accountancy organization leaders. Theme they will be focusing on: Building trust.

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 17, 2022

If you’re like most nonprofit leaders, you’re not researching nonprofit accounting basics to satisfy your curiosity. with this overview of nonprofit accounting basics. . What is nonprofit accounting? Investopedia defines accounting as “the process of recording financial transactions pertaining to a business.” .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

.’s so-called Big Four accounting giants — PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY — have reportedly set aside more than $212 million in preparation for potential fines ahead as auditing scrutiny grows. million in fines to the auditing industry, three times the value of fines it had issued in the year prior.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Parliament will commence an inquiry into the nation’s corporate auditing market, which is currently dominated by the Big Four accounting firms Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG, adding new pressure on an industry already being probed by other policymakers. Reports in Reuters on Sunday (November 11) said the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2020

The German payment processing company’s operating performance in Europe and the Americas was far worse than previously known, according to a report from KPMG, the Netherlands-based global accounting firm, obtained by the newspaper. Wirecard’s filing insolvency two weeks ago has exposed a pair of deposits totaling $2.1

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Focus CFO

APRIL 7, 2023

Jim has over 30 years of progressive financial and operations leadership beginning with five years of diverse audit experience with Big 4 public accounting firm Arthur Andersen, LLP, including a major fraud investigation. He reated and managed the first internal audit department at a community hospital located in Wheeling, WV.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

A research firm has discovered that the number of material accounting mistakes made by U.S. Massachusetts-based Audit Analytics looked at disclosures from more than 9,000 U.S.-listed listed companies since 2005, finding firms that had to reissue their financials due to errors. tax law and revenue accounting rules.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

One day after an Ernst & Young ( EY ) whistleblower’s warning about potential fraud at Wirecard was made public, the global accounting firm is facing backlash, the Financial Times (FT) reported. Details of the allegations were included in an unpublished section of a special audit into Wirecard by KPMG. On Tuesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

may be changing course in its efforts to break up the Big Four accountancy firms after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) decided against such action late last year. audits for large businesses. audits for large businesses. Reports in Bloomberg on Monday (April 1) said a U.K.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

regulators are encouraging an inquiry into whether the market’s Big Four accountancy firms — KPMG, Deloitte, PwC and EY — should be broken up and forced to spin off their auditing arms, reports said. So, it seems to me that we ought to have another look at [the audit market].”. A previous inquiry by the then-U.K.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

Anxieties that automation will replace humans have waned in the accounting sector, as industry players begin to realize that technology can actually help accountants play a more important role for their small business (SMB) customers as advisors and guides, rather than replacing their roles outright. Tax reform in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

An EY whistleblower has alleged the global accounting firm was warned as far back as 2016 that senior managers at Wirecard may have committed fraud and one had tried to bribe an auditor, the Financial Times (FT) reported. An audit by KPMG , a global auditing firm, criticized Wirecard’s lack of transparency.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

But even then, there were concerns about Wirecard’s accounting practices, the network reported. billion) were missing from the German payment processor’s accounts in two Philippines banks. Within days, Braun, 50, was arrested on charges of accounting fraud and market manipulation. billion euros ($2.1

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

It’s common sense that a corporation would want its C-Suite to have some knowledge of accounting practices, and one could assume that a lack of understanding of corporate accounting may heighten the risk for misstatements on financial reports. ” Below, PYMNTS breaks down some of the key data points from the research.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

In a 2017 report from job hunting site Indeed , researchers found that “small business accountant” was nowhere to be found in the top-10 job positions sought after by most small business employers. “Bookkeeping is the low-value work performed by accounting firms,” he said.

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Future CFO

MARCH 1, 2023

When it comes to corporate ESG reporting and related assurance involving ESG issues, the largest global companies continue to show momentum, according to a new report from the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and AICPA & CIMA, the latter two of which form the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2018

have been chosen to lead the inquiry into the nation’s accounting watchdog and assess whether the body is effective at identifying and preventing accounting issues. Reports said no current executives from the so-called Big Four accountancy firms — PwC , Deloitte , EY and KPMG — are in the group.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This shift has been so acute that small business cloud accounting firm Xero is even petitioning the Oxford English Dictionary to change the definition of “accountant” to one that includes the word “advise.” Changing Demand. That demand for human talent, by the way, hasn’t decreased.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 18, 2022

The number of global companies obtaining independent assurance on their ESG information increased from 51% to 58% in 2020, compared to the previous year, said the International Federation of Accountants ( IFAC ) recently. The use of, or reference to, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards more than doubled in 2020.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2020

Wirecard AG’s accounting firm said an independent report failed to account for half of the German payment company’s revenue and all its operating profit, the Financial Times (FT) reported. .

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CFO Talks

AUGUST 23, 2023

Nonkululeko Gobodo’s advice for shattering glass ceilings Written by: Leigh Schaller Nonkululeko Gobodo, one of the founders of what would become South Africa’s largest black-owned accounting firms as well as the first black female CA(SA) spoke to Chwayita Deliwe, co-owner of CN Outsourced Finance on the CFOClub Podcast.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has reportedly sent a letter to KPMG, Wells Fargo’s auditor, questioning why the accounting firm did not catch the fake accounts that resulted in $185 million in fines for Wells Fargo. It’s estimated that 14,000 of those accounts accrued $403,145 in fees. Warren in the letter.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The finance profession will see new roles created out of sustainability needs, said the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) recently. The findings show that executives in the accountancy and finance profession play a critical role in integrating sustainability into businesses, said ISCA President Teo Ser Luck.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz and Economy Minister Peter Altmaier faced hours of questioning by Parliament Wednesday (July 29) over allegations they failed to prevent the Wirecard AG accounting scandal. Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said auditing should be improved.

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