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CLA and Digits Are Training an AI on Their Clients' Books: What Firm-Built AI Bookkeeping Means for Your Small Business

CLA, a top-10 U.S. accounting firm with nearly $2 billion in revenue and 9,000 people, is co-building a proprietary AI model with Digits trained on its own client base and rolling it out to thousands of clients over three years. Here is what firm-trained AI bookkeeping means for small businesses — what gets automated versus reviewed, where your data goes, how pricing shifts, and why keeping a portable plain-text copy of your books matters more as accounting goes AI-native.

mike

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PCAOB AS 1215: The New 14-Day Audit Documentation Deadline and What It Means for Small Firms

PCAOB AS 1215 cuts the audit documentation completion window from 45 days to 14 after the report release date. Large firms have complied since fiscal years beginning December 15, 2024; all other registered firms follow for fiscal years beginning December 15, 2025 — meaning most calendar-year 2026 audits are already covered. Here's who's affected, the mistakes firms keep making, and how small practices are adapting.

mike

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PCAOB Bars Auditor Jennifer Crofoot Over Skipped Engagement Quality Reviews: What It Teaches You About Vetting an Audit Firm

In December 2025 the PCAOB barred CPA Jennifer Crofoot for at least three years and fined Fruci & Associates $50,000 after four public-company audits were released without the mandatory engagement quality review under AS 1220. Here is what the second-reviewer requirement actually protects against, and five concrete questions to ask before relying on any firm's audit opinion.

mike

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PCAOB Bars Zwick CPA Over Fabricated Genie Energy Workpapers: What Audit Quality Failures Mean for Small Businesses

The PCAOB revoked Zwick CPA's registration and fined the firm $50,000 after finding its 2022 Genie Energy audit relied on the predecessor auditor's recycled workpapers with swapped names and fabricated documentation. With 61% aggregate deficiency rates at triennially inspected firms, here's how small businesses can vet the audits they rely on — and keep their own books diligence-ready.

mike

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KPMG Australia Cut Partner Pay 20% Over an Ethics Scandal. Here's How to Vet Your Own Accountant.

KPMG Australia is preparing to cut over 1,000 of roughly 10,000 jobs and reduce partner pay by up to 20% after admitting it mishandled a 2024 whistleblower complaint alleging misuse of confidential client data. The same five independence threats behind the scandal — self-interest, self-review, advocacy, familiarity, and intimidation — apply to any local CPA firm, and this guide covers the red flags plus a five-step due-diligence checklist (license lookup, peer review report, references, commission disclosure, engagement-letter scope) for vetting your own accountant.

mike

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