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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.
EY Gone Wild? 1200 Rowdy EYers Are Partying Like It’s 1999 in the Netherlands
A tipster has directed us to some news coming out of the Netherlands this week […]
In 2019, Academic Researchers Tried to Answer the Question ‘Is Accounting a Miserable Job?’
Stumbled across this interesting paper by authors Paul Madsen and Jeffrey Piao today and thought […]
Why Are People at Big 4 Firms So Elitist? A Rant
Here’s a fun one from Fishbowl today: Thankfully someone pointed out how bizarre it is […]
PwC Manager is Suing the Firm After He Lost a Chunk of His Skull at a Drunken Work Event
In 2019, PwCer Michael Brockie (UK) was at an after-hours pub golf outing with colleagues […]
Research: The Profession Continues to Have a Gender Diversity Problem at Upper Levels
Though some progress has been made in recent years, women continue to be suspiciously absent […]
Guidehouse is Buying Grant Thornton’s Public Sector Advisory Practice (UPDATE)
Ed. note: Internal email regarding the acquisition sent to Grant Thornton staff included below. This […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Auditor Hurt; Deloitte Tops a List; EY Writes the Treasury | 8.22.22
PwC is being sued by a 28-year-old auditor who claims he suffered a serious head […]
No Wonder Your Accounting Manager Quit, You Clown
Spotted on Twitter: Putting an emoji at the end doesn’t make your dysfunctional, underpaid workplace […]
Here’s the Deck EY Put Together to Sell the Audit/Consulting Split to Staff
Australian Financial Review has published slides shown to EY staff in a July global webcast […]
The New IRS Recruiting Brochure is WILD
Remember how the military tried to recruit Call of Duty players to be drone pilots? […]
How Many CPAs Are There in the United States?
669,130. That’s how many licensed CPAs there are in the United States as of August […]