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Moving from software engineering into accounting
After 20 years of designing electronics and writing software as a person with aptitude and interest (and after having had some good breaks allowing me to learn quickly), I feel like I have completed engineering. Alongside working in industrial units which are cold, a...
Banking Webinar Series | Understanding CRA’s New Retail Lending Test: What Banks of Every Size Need to Know
Face your Retail Lending Test with confidence backed by to-the-minute research on an evolving regulation. Wednesday, March 27 at 10:00am CT The new Retail Lending Test was introduced as part of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) final rule and its implementation...
Form PF Changes Could Impact Reporting for Investment Advisers to Private Funds
The SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)—collectively, the Commissions—jointly adopted amendments to Form PF, the confidential reporting form for certain SEC-registered investment advisers to private funds, on February 8, 2024. Form PF was adopted...
CTA; share for share/reorganization content
So I'm starting the CTA exams and I was wondering if anyone would be able to point me in the right direction off the top of their heads. One thing I'd like to add to my skill set is company reorganizations and share for share exchange (particularly holding company's...
Performing a Quality Audit: PCAOB Spotlight
"When inspection reports are finalized, PCAOB inspectors expect that approximately 40% of the audits they reviewed in 2022 will have had one or more deficiencies…This means audit opinions were signed without completing the audit work required to verify the accuracy of...
CMS Final Rule for 2024 OPPS and ASC Payment System Update
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized Medicare payment rates on November 2, 2023. Payment rates affect the calendar year (CY) 2024 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) services and became...