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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.
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Dissecting the Talent Shortage; Big 4 Culture Kills; Are You Happy? | 9.12.22
A deal announced early this month by House Democrats for years of Donald Trump’s financial […]
Audit Partners and MDs Work Much, Much Harder Than Everyone Else at PwC
Saw this in PwC’s 2022 Audit Quality Report and wanted to get the peanut gallery’s […]
Reddit is Bickering Over the CPA Exam Getting Harder (or Not) Over the Years
There’s a fun little conversation happening on r/accounting right now (it was yesterday actually but […]
EY HAS BIG NEWS, YOU GUYS
This announcement is the most exciting thing since…uh…yeah, I got nothing. Anyway, the EY split […]
Some Folks at EY Spent Labor Day Working Out the Details of the Audit/Consulting Split
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the EY split is moving forward thanks in […]
Tuesday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC’s Skepticism Fail; KPMG’s Appalling Work; Marcum Deal Done | 9.6.22
Ed. note: we usually do these headline roundups on Monday but since Monday was a […]
Deloitte is Out Here Being Cringey on LinkedIn Again
That polar bear’s name? Albert Einstein. Related articles: We Get It Lady, You Work For […]
Thank God Accounting Firms Are Still Bragging About Ping-Pong Tables at the Office
The pandemic changed a lot of things, thank goodness it hasn’t impacted the profession’s inexplicable […]
PwC Is Still Not Forcing People Back to the Office (Really)
Ed. note: In April 2023, rumors began circulating that PwC would soon announce a soft […]
Is There a Such Thing as Corporate Bonding Exercises That AREN’T Objectively Terrible?
So r/accounting decided they wanted to remind of us of PwC’s horrifying Shabooya incident and […]
Letters to the Editor: CPAs Give Their Perspectives on Why No One Wants to Be an Accountant Anymore
Last week, we published a letter written to Fortune by a former CPA who pivoted […]