Seeing multiple posts about audit Staff 1s getting let go from EY this week, it’s […]
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The IRS Moves Atlanta Employees to an Office That Makes the Rat-Infested Office Look Pretty Good
If you’ve been keeping up with the news cycle (or if you caught last Monday’s […]
KPMG Redefines Excellence in the Age of AI By Using AI to Pump Out Dubious Citations in This Now-Removed Report
GPTZero, the folks who brought you this glorious takedown of an EY Canada report stuffed […]
Friday Footnotes: Great, KPMG Got the Whole Big 4 in Trouble; Pentagon Brings in Agentic AI to Address Their Audit Problems | 6.12.26
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans […]
Crowe Told Its People Private Equity Might Be Coming So They Didn’t Have to Find Out Through a WSJ Article (UPDATE)
Ed. note: This article was originally published on October 9, 2025. It was updated on […]
The IRS Is Holding a Few In-Person Hiring Events
Anybody looking for a job? The IRS is hiring, for real. We first saw this […]
It Appears Baker Tilly Bought a 103-Year-Old Firm Just to Get a Better Address
So this is interesting, depending on how interested you are in the happenings of PE-backed […]
FRC To Determine Whether Missing a £30 Million Overstatement Was, In Fact, Bad Auditing
The Financial Reporting Council announced today that they’re officially investigating PwC UK’s 2024 audit of […]
Compensation Watch ’26: Deloitte Salary Numbers Are Out and Some People Are Salty
Compensation threads were once a yearly tradition here at Going Concern many, many, many years […]
Friday Footnotes: Big 4 Partner Thinks Regulation Is Stupid; KPMGers No Longer Get to Go Home Early on Summer Fridays | 6.5.26
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans […]
So Do We Or Don’t We Have an IRS Commissioner?
In an appearance before the Senate Finance Committee described as “testy” in at least one […]
The Department of War Broke Up with KPMG, KPMG Gives Up Federal Audits Altogether (UPDATED)
This post was originally published on April 29, 2026 and updated on June 3, 2026. […]