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Category: Big 4
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Exposure Drafts: The One Way Accounting Firms Are Succeeding at Diversity
Exposure Drafts appears every other Wednesday. Send your accounting cartoon ideas and diversity quotas to […]
Thanks to Millennials, PwC Now Knows Their People Want Lives Outside of Work, Have the Feels
The history of PricewaterhouseCoopers goes back to 1849 when Samuel Lowell Price set up business […]
Beware of Public Accounting’s ‘Voluntold’ Assignments
Employment-at-will. It’s a lovely sentiment; if you don’t like it, quit. Easy. But, all jobs […]
Accounting News Roundup: Big 4 See, Big 4 Do; Tesla’s Top Accountant Leaves; Politics and Tax Breaks | 03.09.18
KPMG, PwC to include partners’ pay in gender gap calculations [FT] Following EY and Deloitte’s […]
KPMG Employees Seeking Help with Audit Software Might End Up With Phone Sex Instead
One of the best things about working at a Big 4 firm is that for […]
A Field Guide to Quitting a Job in Public Accounting
That is the look of a man who no longer bears the yoke of a […]
#Envelopegate Redux: PwC Failed to Predict the Worst-Case Scenario
Last month we noted that PwC had gone far out of its way to not […]
Deloitte Agrees to Fork Over $149.5 Million for Its Crappy Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Audits
The Justice Department announced that Deloitte would pay a $149.5 million fine to put “potential […]
Former PwC Partner Suing Firm After Getting Fired for Groping a Co-worker Who He Can’t Remember Groping But Knows He Didn’t Grope
Let’s say you’re a professional businessperson and you’re at a work event. Let’s also say that […]
What to Do if You Find Yourself Reverse Mentoring a Public Accounting Partner
It’s no secret that public accounting churns and burns its employees. Burnout is a cost […]