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Average audit fees are rising as auditors turn more to technology

Accounting Today

Average audit fees increased by 4.6% from 2021 to 2022, and more auditors are using data analytics in their audits, according to a new report.

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2021 broke downward trend on restatements

Accounting Today

Financial restatements, which have generally been on a downward trend since 2003, spiked in 2021.

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Audit fees edged up from 2020 to 2021

Accounting Today

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PCAOB finds auditor evaluation deficiencies

Accounting Today

Seventeen percent of comment forms in 2021 and 2022 contained auditor evaluation deficiencies, according to the PCAOB.

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NY sues FDIC over $44M in unpaid Signature Bank taxes

Accounting Today

The city's department of finance audited Signature after the bank shuttered in March and found tax deficiencies for years 2015 through 2021 related to unreported income allocation and adjustments to investment and capital income.

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Airbnb to pay €576M to settle Italian tax claim

Accounting Today

billion of rental revenue and claimed that the company owed about €779 million after an audit of the tax years from 2017 to 2021. Italy's finance police had claimed that the company failed to pay taxes on about €3.7

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Decarbonisation: What’s in it for accountants and bookkeepers?

Xero

In a Xero study undertaken in 2021 we found that 68% of small businesses want to improve their sustainability practices, but many don’t know where to start. As financial professionals, your skills in data collection, verification, assurance and audit can be applied to the carbon certification space. What’s driving this?