Today’s nugget of knowledge comes courtesy this Reddit post and the OP’s ethics textbook: Debit Does Dallas heh. The textbook author who came up with that deserves a raise. In case you didn’t know, Rule 501 of the AICPA Code of Conduct is a bit controversial due to its completely open nature. The code itself […]
How much concern do we feel for Kevin Ellis? He should sit pretty—senior partner of the UK firm of PwC, which in 2021 clocked up record global revenue of $45 billion. The average profit of his UK partners was a league-leading £868,000, and Ellis himself in 2020 took home a handsome £4.4 million. Instead, this week’s press attention […]
As the UK’s audit cops are kicking back and watching KPMGers throw each other under the bus and a former audit partner feign ignorance about documents being forged during a tribunal hearing on the clown show that was the firm’s auditing of Carillion, the Financial Reporting Council decided to give KPMG a small taste of […]
A candlelight vigil was held in Times Square last night in memory of Michelle Go, the 40-year-old Deloitte Consulting senior manager who was killed by a mentally ill homeless man last Saturday morning while waiting for a train inside the Times Square subway station. Here is a collection of photos and videos from last night’s […]
For today’s episode of “What Can We Rag on Big 4 Firms For” we’re going to dive into this article I came across this morning in Fair Observer, an independent outlet which I’ve never heard of but hey, any article that bashes Big 4 firms is OK in my book. Let’s be real, visiting Going […]
We know it doesn’t belong to former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann or it would be called “Community Adjusted EBITDA.” No words… pic.twitter.com/cV6kzUCZ6s — The Wet Bandits (@ChaseJones11) August 1, 2021 Happy Monday, everyone. Related article: Let’s All Have a Good Laugh at WeWork’s Stupid ‘Community Adjusted Ebitda’
After years at a private equity-backed technology company in Seattle, I had an opportunity to take on a new role as controller at CorneaGen, a mission-driven organization devoted to transforming cornea care and eliminating corneal blindness worldwide by 2040. This role blended two passions: my love of accounting and a childhood love of medicine. The […]
The holiday smells of pine and evergreen have been replaced with the smells of new partners and principals at RSM US offices across the country, as its newest class of rainmakers was released into the wild on Jan. 1. The class of 2022 has slightly more members than the class of 2021. This is also […]
For far too long, the accounting industry has been plagued with this idea that sacrificing your personal life for the firm is some badge of honor to be celebrated rather than pitied. When millennials showed up in the workplace, we started destroying this concept just like we destroyed frozen food sit-down restaurants, the wedding industrial […]
Accounting Principals has finally released its salary guide for 2022, and the main takeaway is average base salaries for roles in public accounting are expected to increase 6.4% across the board next year. So you guys get a salary adjustment that would barely cover the current inflation rate. Hooray. For 2022’s salary guide, Accounting Principals […]
In today’s edition of “How Much Are You Worth?” let’s take a look at public accounting salary projections for 2022 from recruitment firm Hays US. We chose four tax and four audit roles from Hays’s 2022 Salary Guide to highlight in this post. Hays provides accounting salary ranges, with the first figure indicating minimum pay […]
