Grant Thornton LLP has sold its public sector advisory practice to Guidehouse, a consultancy owned by private equity fund Veritas Capital. The move is part of Chicago-based Grant Thornton’s strategy of divesting some of its practice niches to focus more on audit, tax and advisory services. Guidepost will be gaining
Deloitte’s Center for Controllership released a new poll highlighting why accounting firms are looking for new talent, and why accountants are leaving their posts. The poll, released Monday, found that public companies have been more challenged with talent retention than their private counterparts. Last year, 82% of public firms said
New York State is expanding a tax break that allows smaller companies to circumvent the $10,000 limit on state and local tax deductions from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, similar to a workaround also being permitted in some other high-tax states. The legislation, which was passed by the
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board reported Friday it uncovered a high rate of deficiencies last year in firms that perform audits of broker-dealers similar to 2020, but there were signs of improvement in terms of audit engagements and quality control systems. The proportion of inspected firms where the PCAOB
As discussed in my last article, running a mastermind group can be highly rewarding for you and for participants. But, before sending out the invites and booking a meeting place, you need to figure out the goals for the group. Here we’ll discuss how to manage the roles and responsibilities
You may not be able to touch information or even declare it as an asset on the balance sheet (not yet at least) but a recent set of experiments found that this doesn’t really matter to people in terms of how much they value it versus physical objects. The Carnegie
AuditBoard released its Third Party Risk Management solution, available Tuesday as an extension of the company’s connected risk platform. The solution allows for tasks like periodic monitoring of vendor control environments and vulnerabilities, the ability to create custom risk assessments (or use one of its templates) to assess vendors and
Last week I wrote about the potential difficulties faced by sole practitioners and small partnerships in eventually selling their practices. It elicited many comments, some of which had to do with the difficulties in managing their practices, and I am addressing today. Some readers affirmed the difficulty in selling their
House Democrats delivered the final votes needed to send President Joe Biden a slimmed-down version of his tax, climate and drug price agenda, overcoming a year of infighting and giving themselves a cornerstone achievement to campaign on for the November congressional election. The legislation passed the House Friday on a
Big Four accounting firm KPMG LLP nominated Derek Thomas as national partner-in-charge of the firm’s university talent acquisition. Thomas joined the firm in 2000 as a senior associate before working for KPMG’s federal audit practice three years later. Eager to expose himself to a different field and using his experience