As it’s the first Friday of March, today is Employee Appreciation Day. I never would […]
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.
Why Did the PCAOB Redact KPMG’s Audit Failure Rate?
What the fuck is this?? WSJ doesn’t know why it was redacted either. NO ONE […]
EY Gave a Hilarious Excuse For Walking Away From This Awful Municipal Audit Client
Across the pond, EY is earning headlines for its abandoning the Wokingham Borough Council, a […]
Study: ChatGPT Won’t Be Replacing Accounting Professors In the Near Future
If you’re a high school student and future accounting major hoping to receive your undergraduate […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Semper Fi-nancial; EY Gets a D in Auditing; Deepfake CFOs Are a Thing | 2.26.24
Hi, welcome to another Monday. *insert sassy observation here* As you ready yourself for the […]
Weekend Discussion: Are Partners Basically Better-Dressed Used Car Salesmen?
*and saleswomen This person on r/Big4 seems to have had an epiphany that partners are […]
LPT: Don’t Eavesdrop On Your Partner’s WFH Calls and Inside Trade on What You Hear
Yesterday the SEC charged the soon-to-be-ex-husband of a BP mergers and acquisitions manager with insider […]
Only the Dumb Firms Monitor Badge Swipes
Monitoring badge swipes fosters a culture of distrust and only discourages people from coming to […]
Friendly Reminder to Double-Check Your ChatGPT Output Today
So apparently ChatGPT went psychotic some time yesterday with multiple users on r/chatgpt reporting issues […]
Layoff Watch ’24: The Canadian Version of the AICPA Cuts One Fifth of Its Workforce
TLDR: CPA Canada is laying off 20 percent of its workforce because CPA Ontario and […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Watch That Utilization; PwC CEO Doesn’t Know His Own Salary | 2.19.24
It’s a bit quiet on the news front today, no doubt partially due to President’s […]
Weekend Discussion: “The System Is Very Close to a Tipping Point of Massive Non-Compliance”
Said accounting profession veteran Kim Moody in Financial Post: In my view, the system is […]