Some time last evening we received a quiet little tip about a firm we rarely […]
Author: Adrienne Gonzalez
Adrienne is a 15-year veteran of the accounting industry, if by "veteran" you mean "vulture prowling the periphery of the profession waiting for something exciting to happen."
She has been spewing vitriol on Going Concern since the site was founded in 2009. A former CPA review employee, she has sat through more FAR classes than any CPA exam candidate ever could -- even one who has failed FAR seven times -- and can still recall most of the mnemonics all these years later.
China’s About to Dropkick PwC Right in the Wallet
This would be a highly inappropriate article to use PwC Chad on. Perhaps our own […]
I Was a Naive Fool to Think Firms Wouldn’t Be Money-Grubbing Pricks
So EisnerAmper announced they bought themselves a smallish firm in Los Angeles this week. Whoop-de-doo. […]
“There is a Risk That PE Investors May Lack a Deep Understanding of Audit Practice Objectives”
Tucked 22 pages deep into the Financial Reporting Council’s 2024 Annual Review of Audit Quality […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Partners Take a Hit; Grant Thornton Commits to Audit Quality After Blowing It | 8.19.24
Hey. I’m a little disappointed we’re already back at Monday but what can you do? […]
Survey Says: More Than 75% of Millennial Workers Would Quit Due to a Bad Manager
Seven out of 10 workers in the United States would quit a job if they’re […]
“The AICPA Can Eat a Bag of Dicks,” or Here’s What CPA Candidates Are Mad About Today (UPDATE)
According to the latest information on the AICPA’s “Find out when you’ll get your CPA […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Tax Practitioners Resent Getting Lumped in with PwC Scandal; Marcum’s Orphan | 8.12.24
What’s up, newshounds? Everyone good? I hope so. Don’t want to hold you up so […]
The Only Piece of Advice You Need to Survive Layoffs at Your Firm
If it backfires so what, they were going to lay you off anyway. I really […]
Comp Season PSA: If You’re Disappointed, It Might Be Because They Want You to Quit
Evidently EY missed its revenue target and as a result, some EYers are getting bad […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Inside PwC When Scandal Breaks; SCOTUS Makes CPAs Nervous | 8.5.24
Is that Sister Minnie in the stock photo? She and I share the same iblis. […]
Weekend Discussion: We’re in the ‘Throwing Spaghetti at the Wall’ Stage of Accounting Firm Strategy
Is this a viable strategy? “We are no longer a capital-light profession, we’re a cap-heavy […]