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New CEO at Deloitte & Touche has always been a fan of numbers [WaPo]
Grant Thornton partners vote to boldly become shared enterprise firm [Accountancy Age]
Are the Big 4 accounting firms or technology giants? [AFR]
Apollo-Backed Athene CFO Leaves Amid Accounting Lapses [Bloomberg]
Accounting Firm Wealth Management Practices Often Severely Underperform [Forbes]
Fewer Returns for Large Tax Prep Chains [AT]
"In The Shower Eating Cherries" and More Tales of Nightmare IT Calls [Gizmodo]
City employee fired after watching porn on the job for 39 hours over two weeks [Baltimore Sun]