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cryptocurrency. The Tysons Corner, Virginia-based company booked impairment losses from digital assets of $1.01 billion in the quarter, compared with $39.2 million a year ago.

The world's biggest cryptocurrency struggled to make gains last week, as a rally that had seen it break above $100,000 after U.S. President Donald Trump's election ran out of steam.

Cryptocurrencies enable people to send money around the world without using the mainstream financial system. The underlying blockchain technology creates a record of transactions where senders and receivers are identified only by their wallet addresses, which are a string of letters and numbers. Chainalysis said the $24.2 billion number is almost certainly an underestimation and will rise as it identifies more illicit addresses. It also said it had doubled its 2022 estimate to $39.6 billion from $20.6 billion. Chainalysis' data only includes crypto-related crime. It said it was impossible to determine from blockchain data alone the volume of cryptocurrency that is the proceeds of non-crypto-related crime, for example when cryptocurrency is the means of payment in drug trafficking.

Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday asked chartered accountants to adequately familiarise themselves with new and growing areas of auditing, including ESG (environmental, social, and governance) and carbon accounting, and to adopt technology to improve their productivity. Developing expertise in new areas will help not just their clients but also the broader ecosystem, Sitharaman said at an event held by Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) in Bhubaneswar.

Wolfspeed (NYSE:WOLF) shares dropped about 13% in pre-market Thursday after the company reported results for its fiscal fourth quarter.

ASX-listed accounting group Kelly Partners has hit the ground running on its mooted strategic review, drafting in Jefferies Australia to consider capital structure and ownership options to solve its valuation blues.

Every year, in August, staff at DMG Partners, a modest accounting firm in Gippsland, Victoria, bake cupcakes and cookies for their colleagues.

By Tommy Wilkes

Financial accounting isn’t always the easiest topic to get fired up about. But that’s a mistake, especially these days. Accounting rules increasingly are driving companies to make bad decisions about how they hire, fire and develop their workforce.

By her own admission, Autumn Kimborough, 17, didn't have a passion for accounting. But the rising high school senior from Flossmoor, Illinois, heard about a well-paid summer internship at KPMG, which included a $250 clothing stipend, and got excited.

The Big Four accounting firms are trimming their consulting ranks—sometimes months after a promotion—after forecasting slower growth as more businesses scale back on third-party help in certain areas. The firms—Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers—are facing the consequences of aggressive hiring over the past two years as the pandemic spurred higher demand for consulting in areas such as corporate strategy, coupled with lower attrition than they expected during the first half of the year. The recent rounds of layoffs have been heavily focused on the advisory sides of the firms.

new accounting standard for insurance contracts, which would align Indian norms with international practices and help global investors better gauge the risk exposure of domestic insurers, a senior official said. The ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) has received recommendations by the National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) on the Indian Accounting Standard (Ind AS) 117 for insurance contracts, he told ET. «The NFRA's suggestions are being evaluated.

KPMG said on Tuesday it will spend $2 billion on artificial intelligence and cloud services through an expanded partnership with Microsoft, closely following Accenture in betting on the latest technologies to weather a slowdown in advisory deals. The accounting firm said it will incorporate AI into its core audit, tax and advisory services for clients as part of the five-year partnership.

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday said 'creative accounting', or the exploitation of loopholes in the financial rules and regulations, is soon going to be a 'thing of the past' due to fast-evolving technology in the auditing space. Addressing a gathering on the 75th Chartered Accountants' Day, the President said manual assessment of data is fast becoming outdated, as she called for the fast adoption of technology by auditors to easily detect wrongdoings by unscrupulous elements.

Manipulation of earnings from Corporate America is on the rise, an ominous omen for the U.S. economy.

Manipulation of earnings from Corporate America is on the rise, an ominous omen for the U.S. economy.

Manipulation of earnings from Corporate America is on the rise, an ominous omen for the U.S. economy.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a watchdog that oversees audits of public companies in the United States, recently issued an advisory that warned investors about proof-of-reserves (PoR) reports issued by auditing firms.

Two Republican lawmakers who have been central to the United States Congress’ continuing efforts to regulate cryptocurrency are questioning policies governing how financial firms handle crypto accounting in the country.

Two United States lawmakers have criticized crypto accounting guidelines outlined by the securities regulator, arguing it places crypto customers at greater risk of loss.

An accounting firm that touts itself as the first to open its headquarters in the metaverse was accused in a lawsuit of turning a blind eye to a pattern of racketeering at FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed causing billions of dollars in losses.