BDO and QuickBooks Over the last few years, we've seen the Big 4 firms sidle […]
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Accounting News Roundup: KPMG’s Golfer Problem and Aggressive Nexus | 05.23.16
KPMG As we noted on Friday, KPMG announced last week that it would continue its […]
KPMG to Keep Phil Mickelson in Hats for Foreseeable Future
KPMG is standing by their golfing man. In the aftermath of the news that Phil […]
Accounting Firms and the New Overtime Rules
As you may have heard, the Obama administration announced new rules this past week that […]
Accounting News Roundup: KPMG’s Auditing and Diversity Problems | 05.20.16
KPMG's auditing Last fall, the PCAOB released its inspection report for KPMG and the results […]
Accountingfly Featured Job of the Week: Audit Supervisor With Atchley & Associates
Accountingfly's featured job this week is an Audit Supervisor with Atchley & Associates in Austin, […]
A Thing We Desperately Wish Were Real: A Photo of Phil Mickelson and Ex-KPMG Partner Scott London Yukking It Up
Texas A&M professor Mike Shaub put the idea in our heads and now we can't […]
Accounting News Roundup: Double Taxation and Do CFOs Need Accounting Backgrounds? | 05.19.16
CFOs and accounting There's a nice little back and forth about whether CFOs need a […]
Layoffs Watch: Big 4 Texas
Here's one from the mailbag: Big 4 in Houston and Dallas have been laying staff […]
Accounting News Roundup: Tech Startup Profitability and Accounting’s Pay Gap | 05.18.16
Tech companies are profitable (pro forma) I enjoyed this Bloomberg article about all the ways […]
PwC Is in the Midst of a Independence Quagmire
Independence: its complicated. Except it isn’t, really. Audits firms are conflicted because they’re paid by the organizations who they’re supposed to be independent of audit clients. Most people, I think, know this yet choose to ignore it. Fine.
Reminder: Accounting Firms Hire Lots of Women, Few of Them Become Partners
Here's a tweet from the AICPA Spring Council: #AICPAGC16 pic.twitter.com/jEORHCs8FZ — Pittelkow (@pittelkow) May 17, […]