PwC Australia is Very Very Sorry, You Guys
Presumably because the many apologies and decisions made before this letter have not sufficiently gotten the heat off their backs (and boy is it hot), PwC Australia published an open letter apology on their website Monday. The entire text, including the formatting, appears in below. At issue, if you make your residence under a rock, […]
PwC Chief Products & Technology Officer Says Not to Worry, They Don’t Want to Replace You With AI
A couple days ago, NYT published a piece asking an important question: Who will protect the workers losing their jobs to AI? The article references a May 16 senate subcommittee hearing chaired by Senator Richard Blumenthal at which OpenAI’s Sam Altman is told Mr. Blumenthal’s greatest nightmare is AI causing massive job loss. “There will […]
Disgraced Ex-PwC CEO Tom Seymour Finally Shows His Face in Public
Don’t know why but this article is hilarious, it feels way more TMZ than you ever expect an article about disgraced former professional services leaders to be. The Australian has informed the world that scandal-plagued ex-PwC CEO Tom Seymour was spotted in public three days after the firm announced he would be retiring on September […]
PwC Issues a Groveling Apology Video (Not Really)
Satirist Mark Humphries has given us the closest thing we’ll get to an apology from PwC for their part in shattering the public trust and slandering the good name of professional services. A message from PwCpic.twitter.com/3DoR61BheQ — Mark Humphries (@markhumphries) May 18, 2023 The skit ran on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s evening news and said […]
PwC Australia Got in Trouble With Mom and Dad, Will Be Grounded For a While
Not satisfied with former CEO Tom Seymour as a sacrifice, the PwC tax leak scandal continues to claim victims and chip away at the good name of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Financial Times has reported that overlords from the global office “will seize” oversight of the Australian business because the Aussies screwed up, big time. The issue has […]
One Week After He Stepped Down as CEO, PwC Announces Tom Seymour Will GTFO Completely
Last Monday, PwC Australia’s Tom Seymour vacated his post as CEO after it came to light that he, along with a handful of other partners, received the low down on confidential government tax info that was then leveraged to advise clients on how to avoid upcoming tax changes. This has led to some less-than-favorable media […]
PwC’s Tom Seymour Just Stepped Down Because He Was On a Naughty Email Chain (UPDATE)
Ed. note: On May 15, 2023, one week after former CEO Tom Seymour vacated his role, PwC announced he will retire on September 30. While most of us were sleeping, PwC Australia was starting its Monday minus one CEO. Tom Seymour has stepped down following a board of partners discussion after it was revealed last […]
We’re Hearing PwC CRTs Will Be Rough This Year
The rumor mill has been worked into a lather about a reduction in force at Marcum (someone in the comments says that’s BS though we did get confirmation of some kind of private equity deal coming down the pipe), lots of performance discussions at Deloitte after promotions were unexpectedly delayed for many, and possible silent […]
The Rumor Is True, PwC Is Returning to the Office
Today was the much-anticipated firmwide webcast in which we expected PwC leadership to announce a return to office. Lo-and-behold…it happened. A source tells us: 50 percent “people together,” virtual channel staff three times per month, firmwide events requirement two times per quarter. So return to work 50 percent starting July. r/PwC is discussing it and […]
PwC Has Set Aside $1,000,000,000 for AI
We’ve used that PwC Chad image way too many times recently so have this AI-generated fantasy forest instead. It wasn’t that long ago that Big 4 accounting firms were cagey about staff playing around with ChatGPT on company equipment, consumed by the fear of sensitive client information being fed into the AI black hole. But […]
PwC Once Again Tops the Vault Accounting 25, EY Almost Didn’t Make the List
Vault has announced its much-loved Accounting 25 list today and it should come as no surprise that PwC has once again topped the list, making it 11 years in a row at the top for P. Dubs. Congrats to them for holding down the throne. While prestige is the most important factor in the Vault […]
That PwC Return-To-Office Rumor Might Be True (Includes Potential Confirmation)
Remember that rumor buzzing around last week about a PwC return to office? It might be true. You’ll note that OP updated their post to specify that what they’ve heard applies to US tax. This morning Going Concern received a copy of a memo that appears to confirm just about everything the original rumor-spreader said, […]
Someone’s Starting Rumors That PwCers Are Getting Forced Back Into the Office
Someone on a throwaway told all of r/Big4 a few hours ago that they’ve been given inside information about a mandatory return to office at PwC to be announced in a couple weeks. This screenshot couldn’t have worked out better. Since late 2021, PwC has touted a super flexible remote work policy. Come in, don’t, […]
PwC UK Has a Soft Spot For Students Who Got Wrecked By the Pandemic
It’s no secret the pandemic screwed a lot of things up. Firms suddenly had to figure out how to manage an entirely remote work force, CPA exam candidates couldn’t test for months due to Prometric closures, and let’s not forget the poor interns and first years who had to wait for answers in Teams while […]
PwC Has a Fancy New AI Tool to Law Around With
Today is the day that PwC ushered in a new era for professional services: a global partnership with AI startup Harvey, offering PwC’s legal professionals “exclusive access” (that is, they are the only Big 4 firm who has it) to the platform. It’s a shame we had to scroll all the way to the bottom […]
PwC UK Fined £7.5 Million For Faking Evidence and Other Such Terrible Auditing of a Government Contractor
The Financial Reporting Council has fined PwC £7.5 million ($8.9 million USD) for work related to Babcock, a multinational corporation headquartered in the UK providing, among other things, engineering services. Babcock conducts most of its business with the government, particularly the Ministry of Defence (don’t @ us, that’s how they spell it across the pond). […]
PwC Australia Says It Will Not Be Firing People Just Because Client Work Slows Down
A few short weeks ago, KPMG US cut a few hundred advisory jobs and KPMG Australia followed close behind with a reduction of about 200 or two percent of its approximately 10,000 staff. This, they said, was due to a slowdown in consulting work. When Australian Financial Review wrote up the KPMG cuts, they mentioned […]
Unable to Bill For It (Yet), PwC Australia Tells Staff They Can’t Use ChatGPT For Client Work
Hate to be the burster of bubbles for anyone out there excited to unload your work on ChatGPT but PwC Australia has told its people that for now, playing around with AI should happen strictly off the clock. Australian Financial Review reports that in this morning’s internal newsletter, PwCers were told not to feed client […]
Remembering the Time Everyone at PwC Had to Work on MLK Day As a Noble Gesture to Honor Dr. King
The following message we’re about to share with you was sent out as a firmwide email from then-Chairman Dennis Nally to everyone at PwC almost exactly 15 years ago to the day. To my knowledge it’s never been published here, because back when it went out to everyone working at PwC US in January 2008, […]
No One Cares But Here Are PwC’s 2023 Metaverse Predictions Anyway
What’s next for the metaverse and what — if anything — should you do about it? PwC has answered the question no one is really asking in its 2023 metaverse predictions. These predictions are, as you’d expect, dumb made assuming that businesses and consumers alike will begin using the metaverse in earnest rather than making […]
PwC’s 2021 PCAOB Inspection Report Shows Once Again It Is Less Awful at Auditing Than the Other Big 4 Firms
The 2021 PCAOB inspection report season kicked off right before Christmas with the release of a batch of six big ones: PwC, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, BDO USA, and Grant Thornton. It would be tough for PwC to top its 2020 inspection report as it was nearly blemish-free. Of the 52 audits reviewed by inspectors during […]
Deloitte and PwC Top This Indeed List of Companies Hiring Tech Workers
The tech sector continues to lay off talent in droves (don’t worry, it doesn’t affect you) and Indeed has helpfully put together a list of companies looking for tech talent to assist the newly laid off in finding a new gig. At the top of this list with the most jobs? Deloitte and PwC. Interestingly, […]
Apparently Interns Are Flocking to PwC to Learn More About … HR
Getting an internship at PwC is a pretty big deal for college students looking to pursue a career in accounting or consulting. But in human resources? Apparently so, according to the latest ranking of the best HR internships for 2023 by Vault and Firsthand. Only five companies’ internship programs made the list for 2023. Coming […]
PwC Declares a Poaching War on EY
As EY continues to hammer out the details of the audit and consulting split, PwC has set its sights on adding EY partners to The New Equation. Lots of EY partners. In October, PwC Global Chairman and 2012 Going Concern Hottest Accounting Firm Leader winner Bob Moritz told the Financial Times in no uncertain terms […]
Lonely Workaholics at PwC UK Will Have to Find Some Other Place to Go For Christmas
Last year, PwC UK chairman Kevin Ellis wrote a lovely advertisement article in The Telegraph letting his people know that if they have literally nothing better to do, PwC employees can spend Christmas at the office. He framed it as a kindness for those who may be lonely — or the opposite, ready to beat […]
A Couple PwC Partners Have Been Quickly Assigned as Joint Provisional Liquidators of FTX
Kevin Cambridge and Peter Greaves of PwC were approved by the Supreme Court of the Bahamas as joint provisional liquidators of failed crypto exchange FTX. From the press release [PDF]: On 10 November 2022, the Securities Commission of The Bahamas (“the Commission”) applied to the Supreme Court to appoint Mr. Brian Simms, KC as a […]
Some Partners at PwC Cyprus Did Not Want to Lose Their Russian Clients So They Started Their Own Firm
In March of this year, Deloitte Global posted a little message on its website about the then-developing situation in Ukraine saying the firm had “suspended business operations and client service in Ukraine as we focus on taking care of our people and their loved ones.” Within days, that message changed to saying they are “currently […]
The Supreme Court Had Better Things to Do Than Hear Appeal From Ex-Dallas Cop Who Murdered PwC Accountant
Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger knows a thing or two about someone being shot down. The Dallas Morning News reported on Monday: The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review the case of former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for the murder of Botham Jean in his apartment. The high court’s […]
Did a PwC Partner Leak Client Financial Data? A Court Will Decide
We briefly mentioned the following case in an August 2020 link dump of several Big 4 lawsuits going on at the time, there is now a date set for court so we’re throwing out an update. The allegation is that former PwC north of England head Ian Green leaked sensitive information about his client, telling […]
Watch Ex-PwC Intern Sack Tom Brady
Happy NFL Sunday! Here is a video of two-time former PwC summer intern and New Orleans Saints defensive end Tanoh Kpassagnon (90) sacking the GOAT last year with a little help from his friends. Tanoh Kpassagnon sacks Tom Brady pic.twitter.com/JUjAQvjhFF — Jason Bramwell (@bramweller) October 23, 2022 Kpassagnon, who double-majored in accounting and finance at […]
PwC Plans to Poach Unhappy Senior Managers From EY
While the pundits are talking about how the EY split could completely change the accounting industry as we know it and inspire other firms to split once they see the truckloads of cash pulling up to EY partners’ houses, one industry vet is perched at the periphery with a stack of offer letters just waiting […]
When it Comes to Global Revenue, PwC is Still Deloitte’s Bi*ch
2015. That was the last time PwC held the distinction of being the world’s biggest accounting firm by revenue, edging Deloitte by a $35.4 billion to $35.2 billion margin. But since then it’s been all Deloitte, overtaking PwC in 2016 and widening its lead in 2022 to about $9 billion now that PwC has officially […]
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 opinion on this math: My first thought is imagine how much worse these numbers would be if you people didn’t eat as many hours as you do. Though judging by this, you’re getting much better at it. Thoughts? Concerns? Outrage? […]
For a Brief Time This Past Weekend, a PwC Twitter Account Was Promoting Crypto Scams
PwC Venezuela’s Twitter account was hijacked over the weekend and started pumping out links to an obvious crypto scam involving (legit) Ripple and its CEO Brad Garlinghouse. The website the scam tweets linked to — xrpgivtoday — was registered on September 3, 2022. You’ve probably seen similar scams all over Twitter, usually involving Elon Musk […]
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 return to office that would be “expected” but not mandated. We are pretty sure it’s happening but will have to wait until May to know for sure. Since last November, PwC has graciously allowed 40,000 client-facing people to choose whether […]
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 when he got blackout drunk and awoke in the street later that night with no memory of the evening. He suffered a life-changing head injury and had to have part of his skull removed, most likely due to a fall […]
KPMG Poaches Someone From PwC and Issues a Press Release, Part XVII
Last month KPMG made a big deal in a press release about how it had added eight partners and managing directors to “advance its Tax Reimagined service offering.” Good for you, KPMG. But what’s somewhat interesting is that the eight new partners and managing directors came from two other Big 4 firms, one of which […]
A Senior Partner Who Has Probably Been Burned Out Since 1997 Gives Tips on Avoiding Burnout
Why do I feel like this screenshot is going to end up on r/thanksimcured? Now this may be blasphemy to say this around these parts but he’s mostly right. Exercise? Hell yeah, great for you. Healthy eating? Also great for you, those takeout dinners can really take a toll on your health. Passion projects? Super […]
PwC’s Summer Break Works, Says Tim Ryan
From a recent CNBC article on company-wide vacation breaks to foster employee well-being: Feeling revitalized is what many employees and their employers both want. Starting this year, accounting and consulting firm PwC is giving its 60,000 U.S. employees two annual company-wide, week-long breaks — one in July and one in December — in addition to […]
Compensation Watch ’22: Does the New Equation Add Up to Better Raises For PwC Employees? (UPDATED)
[Updated original post from July 2 with new raise percentages for A2->S1, A3->S1, and S1->S2; added raise percentages for 2015, 2014, and 2013.] Now that raises have been doled out at Deloitte, next up is PwC. This is the first compensation cycle in the era of the New Equation, which is just a fancy way […]
PwC Director Lets His Family Know He Probably Won’t See Much of Them on Their Family Beach Vacation (UPDATED)
This is so sad. This is almost as bad as the time Moss Adams boasted about how this one guy would be working on dual monitors at the pool all weekend because flexibility. Update: We received the following this morning, thought we’d share. Nice try with the hate toward someone and their family. This guy is […]
Raises at the Queen’s PwC Are Better Than Other Big 4s But Still Not Beating Inflation
UK inflation is at a balmy 9.1% and rising, the job market is red hot, and accounting firm partners everywhere are digging through their kitchen junk drawers for all the buy-one-get-one pizza coupons they can find. It’s rough out there — for employers. eFinancialCareers is busy sharing details on Big 4 salaries across the pond […]
[UPDATED] Singer Pitbull Set to Perform His Worst Collaboration to Date
¡Dale! Remember Pitbull? I swear I had Culo on repeat for all of 2004 and some of 2009 when I suddenly got nostalgic for the raspy exclamation of “YEAH!” over and over. Well TB4A posted this last week on Insta… When he sent me this screenshot via Slack my esteemed colleague Jason Bramwell said: “Dude […]
PwC UK is Being Very Picky About Who They Hire (Yes, Even in This Market)
PwC has whipped out their prestige and is wagging it around in everyone’s faces. eFinancialCareers reports that despite accounting firms everywhere struggling to recruit and retain any talent not just the best and brightest PwC is being picky about who it brings in: There’s been no shortage of applications for PWC’s student jobs this year. […]
Deloitte is Coming to Take PwC’s Consulting Crown in Australia
News is slow over here in the land of Coors and corn syrup, let’s take a quick trip to Oceania. Via AFR: Deloitte is challenging PwC’s place as the largest consultancy by revenue in Australia as the firm posts a 19 per cent jump in income to $2.5 billion in the year to May. The […]
Promotion Watch ’22: PwC Admits 283 New Partners and Principals
PwC will be swimming in new partners and principals on July 1, the day when members of one of the largest classes in recent memory at the firm officially earn their stripes. Of the 283 members of the class of 2022 at PwC, 169 will be principals and 114 will be partners. It’s the biggest […]
PwC Will Not Let Economic Chaos Foil Its Aggressive Hiring Plans
That’s per PwC US chair Tim Ryan who told Insider the firm has its all-seeing eye firmly focused on the market. For now though? Let’s get those warm bodies into chairs. Tim Ryan, the US chair of PricewaterhouseCoopers, said the firm’s hiring plans aren’t going through “any major shocks or changes right now” and that […]
Things Are Getting Spicy Between PwC UK Employees and Lord Sugar
After being called “lazy gits” in a tweet last Friday by British businessman, entrepreneur, and TV show host Lord Alan Sugar, who reacted negatively to PwC UK announcing that it would allow employees to take Friday afternoons off from June to the end of August, we were curious to see if any PwCers across the […]
Back In My Day, Accountants Had to Walk Uphill Both Ways In the Hot Sun to Get to Work, Says Crotchety Old British Guy
British businessman, entrepreneur, and media person Lord Alan Sugar thinks employees of the Queen’s PwC are a bunch of “lazy gits [that] make me sick” for being allowed to take Friday afternoons off this summer. This is a bloody joke. The lazy gits make me sick. Call me old fashioned but all this work from […]
The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: PwC #63 (2022)
The last of the Big 4 to be ranked in the 2022 Fortune BCTWF and the one that took the biggest drop over the last year is the proudest and trustiest firm of them all, PwC. Fortune doesn’t reveal why a particular company fell so many spots in its ranking from one year to the […]
PwC Briefcases Look Absolutely Stunning On the Oscars Red Carpet
All polished up and ready to go for their big night. Hopefully the PwC briefcases’ handlers have a better night at the Oscars tonight than Brian Cullinan and Martha Ruiz did five years ago. Related article: Happy Fifth Anniversary of PwC F*cking Up the Oscars
PwC Poaches Someone From KPMG and Issues a Press Release, Parts X and XI
While the Great Resignation in public accounting hasn’t slowed down much recently, there are still people who are jockeying for a better job in the Big 4 and have left one firm for another. In this case, it’s something we used to write about A LOT back in the day: people bolting KPMG for PwC. […]
Here Is What PwC Russia and EY Russia Said About Being Ousted From Their Big 4 Firm’s Global Network
The dust hadn’t even settled before PwC Russia and EY Russia released statements on their respective websites about being told they were no longer part of the global networks of PwC and EY due to Russia’s war with Ukraine. The statements from PwC Russia and EY Russia are pretty much what you’d expect—acknowledging they were […]
PwC Ukraine’s Forensic Leader OK After His Home Was Hit By a Russian Missile
One of my connections on LinkedIn shared this post from Andriy Tretyak last week. Tretyak is the forensic leader at PwC Ukraine, and the photo above is the building where he lived in Kyiv, which was struck by a Russian missile. Fortunately Tretyak was able to escape before the missile slammed into the residential building, […]
Reports: PwC Is Withdrawing From Russia and Belarus (UPDATE)
[UPDATE] PwC Global Chairman Bob Moritz released this statement a little over an hour ago confirming that PwC is pulling out of Russia: We all continue to be shocked and horrified by the senseless war that the Russian government is inflicting on Ukraine and its people. As we galvanized to find ways in which we […]
PwC Canada Is the Latest Big 4 Firm to Get Busted By Regulators For Employees Cheating on Internal Training Courses
Ever since KPMG was fined $50 million by the SEC in June 2019 as a result of auditors at all levels cheating on internal online training exams by illegally sharing answers with colleagues and manipulating test results (as well as that whole KPMG audit partners stealing confidential inspection information from the PCAOB thing), we have […]
Happy Fifth Anniversary of PwC F*cking Up the Oscars
What were you doing the evening of Feb. 26, 2017? I was at home and I wasn’t watching the Academy Awards. I was probably watching the Chicago Blackhawks game that night, when the team was actually good. But I remember seeing on my Twitter feed later that night people talking about the huge mistake made […]
CONFIRMED: One PwC UK Partner Is Filthy Rich
From the Daily Mail: Kate Moss has reportedly sold her mansion in Highgate, London for a whopping £11.5million as she seeks to swap city living for life in the country. The model, 48, has made a £4.25million profit on the home, located next door to George Michael’s former house, which she bought 11 years ago for £7.25million. […]
Promotion Watch ’22: The Queen’s PwC Adds 22 to the Partnership
PwC UK recently took out an ad in The Times to congratulate its newest class of PwCers who earned their stripes at the midway point of the firm’s financial year. The ad says: On 1 January we are promoting 22 new partners as part of our ongoing investment in our business. We wish them the […]
PwC’s UK Head Kevin Ellis Is Unhappy—There Could Be Relief
How much concern do we feel for Kevin Ellis? He should sit pretty—senior partner of the UK firm of PwC, which in 2021 clocked up record global revenue of $45 billion. The average profit of his UK partners was a league-leading £868,000, and Ellis himself in 2020 took home a handsome £4.4 million. Instead, this week’s press attention […]
Compensation Watch ’21: PwC Employees Are Getting a 5% Bump In Pay (UPDATE)
[UPDATE] Now that PwCers got that sweet, sweet “Timmy Stimmy,” a mid-year raises thread was created on r/accounting, although there hasn’t been much action in it so far. The 5% raise nearly everyone got is reflected in a few posts, while a Senior 3 in Consulting Advisory Services mentioned getting the additional 10% adjustment (see […]
Latest Accounting Overachiever Comes From PwC
From CyprusMail: Demos Ioannou, a trainee accountant of PwC Cyprus, achieved the highest world score in the ICAEW [Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales] exams that took place in November 2021. More specifically, Ioannou achieved first place worldwide in the subject of “Strategic Business Management” and was awarded the Walton Prize. PwC trainee […]
The Queen’s PwC Tells Staff to Come Into the Office Should They Have Literally Nothing Better to Do on Christmas
PwC UK published an advertisement article in The Telegraph last week and we found it so moving that we felt compelled to share it all with you post haste. The letter — penned by PwC UK chairman Kevin Ellis — begins as all corporate letters must since our first COVID Christmas last year: with a […]
PwC Poaches Someone From EY and Issues a Press Release, Parts IV and V
There has been some crazy poaching news recently—no, not in the Big 4 but in college football. USC poached Lincoln Riley from the University of Oklahoma to be its next head coach, which was then followed by Brian Kelly bolting Notre Dame for the SEC (no, not that SEC) to become LSU’s new coach and […]
Australian Senator Understands Big 4 Working Conditions Better Than a PwC Partner
“I’m not talking about billing hours, actual hours of work were 80 to 120 hours. There were people that were substantially underpaid. Wouldn’t you call that a sweatshop?” — Tony Sheldon, Labor senator and former union boss, asked PwC Australia partner Catherine Walsh during a Senate hearing on job security Dec. 8. Walsh was there […]
Wanna Know What New PwC Employees Get These Days In Their Welcome Package?
This new PwCer shows you in a video posted to YouTube last month—and drags out his or her swag unpacking for nearly three minutes. Newbie. This person obviously didn’t know all PwCers have to tag everything PwC-related on social media with #PwCProud.
EY Poaches Someone From PwC and Issues a Press Release, Part VII
Rebecca Rennison recently entered the Big 4 transfer portal as a director at PwC UK and exited as a partner at EY. EY recently announced Rennison and Richard Pulford as its most recent senior hires in the firm’s Manchester corporate finance team, according to Insider Media: Rebecca Rennison also joins EY with more than 20 […]
Big 4 Item of the Week on eBay: PwC Stamps
Looking to buy PwC Global Chairman Bob Moritz a gift for the holidays? We have two ideas for you from eBay: An autographed 8-inch by 10-inch photo of Bebe Rexha because BoMo is apparently a big fan. A full sheet of stamps from 2005 commemorating PwC’s 85th year in Uruguay. Here’s what the stamps look […]
It’s True: PwC Had a Nearly Flawless 2020 PCAOB Inspection Report
The PCAOB blessed us this morning with its first batch of 2020 inspection reports, which included BDO USA, Deloitte, EY, Grant Thornton, KPMG, and the highly anticipated one for PwC. Back in August PwC released its 2021 audit quality report, which included a lot of bragging about how much more competent P. Dubs’ auditors have […]
We Now Know the Buyer of PwC’s Global Mobility Services Business
After months of rumors and speculation online about whether or not PwC was selling its global mobility services business and, if so, to whom, we now have answers to both questions: Yes and private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. Here’s the press release that just hit our inbox: Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and PwC […]
Big 4 Item of the Week on eBay: Price Waterhouse Portfolio Briefcase
Attention PwCers in St. Louis: Be the envy of your office with this retro Price Waterhouse (sans Coopers) dark brown leather portfolio briefcase. It has the Gateway Arch on it and everything. Imagine yourself rocking this pre-owned briefcase at the client site or at the office’s next pizza party. Here are some pics from the […]
[UPDATED] PwC Australia Diversity and Inclusion Manager Who Mocked Chinese Accents Had to Be Told You Aren’t Supposed to Mock Chinese Accents
[Updated original post from Sept. 28 with additional information on PwC Australia’s internal investigation. Update is at the bottom of this article.] Australian Financial Review has a blockbuster of an exclusive this morning, one that involves “a human resources executive dressed as a bat from Wuhan” and a senior manager of diversity and inclusion mocking […]
Paying People More Will Not Win the Talent War, Says PwC India Leader Adamantly Opposed to Paying People More
From the moment ‘Generation Y’ entered the workforce at the turn of the century, the business leaders, politicians, and academics who came before us have been suffering from endless anguish over our alleged lack of loyalty and our pesky desire to find fulfillment in life beyond work. Many of us watched our parents give their […]
PwC Hits $45 Billion In Global Revenue In ‘New Equation’-less FY 2021
The FY 2021 numbers are in at PwC and global revenue rose 4.9% to $45.1 billion for the year ending June 30. Hey, nice job, everyone. And as you’d expect, Bob Mortiz is #PwCProud: “I’m tremendously proud of all we achieved in a challenging year, and the way we did it, leading with our values […]
EY Poaches Someone From PwC and Issues a Press Release, Part VI
We have some Big 4-on-Big 4 poaching action in America’s Hat, as EY of the Canadian variety recently nabbed a partner from PwC. A new partner in EY’s Financial Services practice, Biswajit Das bends over backwards to provide CIO and COO advisory services for the Big 6 banks, insurance players, asset management firms, and large […]
PwC Just Announced That You Never Have To Go Back To the Office If You Don’t Want To (Sorta)
Big news today! PwC just announced that effective November 1, its people will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access PwC facilities and client sites. Deloitte announced a similar vaccination policy toward the end of August, as did KPMG, just a handful of days before President Biden announced the country’s own […]
KPMG Poaches Someone From PwC and Issues a Press Release, Part XVI
It looks like the hot spots for Big 4-on-Big 4 poaching lately are the U.K. and Australia, where KPMG Down Under recently made champagne wishes and caviar dreams come true for one PwC managing director. Australian Financial Review reported: Sally Torgoman, 38, has joined KPMG as a partner in the firm’s infrastructure business. Ms Torgoman was […]
PwC Probably Won’t Be Including Ex-Audit Partner’s PCAOB Fine In Trust Solutions Marketing Materials Anytime Soon
July 1, 2014 was a big day for Sarah Martin, as she was one of 180 chosen ones who were admitted to the partnership by PwC. On that day the Richmond, VA-based Martin became a partner in assurance, which along with tax now falls under the Trust Solutions umbrella at P. Dubs. Now fast-forward seven […]
Non-PwCer Totally Confused About What PwC Trust Solutions Really Is
A thread today on Fishbowl: That’s what PwC gets for giving its assurance and tax segments a dumb new name. This is from the same firm that gave the world Strategy&. That was and still is a dumb name. It’s like they do it on purpose. Related articles: PwC Is a Name You Can Trust […]
KPMG Poaches Someone From PwC and Issues a Press Release, Part XV
In today’s edition of “Big 4-on-Big 4 Poaching From Around the World,” we head to the largest country in South America where Carlos Augusto da Rosa Gomes recently left PwC in Brazil for the bluer pastures of KPMG. He announced his new home away from home on LinkedIn earlier this month: KPMG is Carlos’s third […]
Compensation Watch ’21: How ’Bout Them Raises At PwC? (NEW UPDATE)
(Updated original post on July 8 with a comparison of average raise percentages per promotion from 2020 and 2016.) PwCers expected really good raises this year. They trust that management would make that happen, given that PwC U.S. had record-setting revenue of $18 billion last year during a global pandemic. Last year PwCers had to […]
In Honor of Labor Day, Here’s a Guy Who Would Take a Bullet for PwC
Y’all think he makes a Facebook post like this on his wedding anniversary? Nah, me neither.
PwC Might Do Something No Other Big 4 Firm Has Ever Done Before
After years and years of PCAOB inspections of the Big 4 in which the percentage of audits of public companies that weren’t up to snuff have been in the 30s, 40s, and even 50s, we finally had a respectable audit report card earlier this year when Deloitte nearly had a single-digit deficiency rate in its […]
PwC Manager Believes Associates and Senior Associates Are Going the Way of the Dodo Bird
Hey, I don’t know if you’ve heard but there’s a pipeline problem in public accounting right now. Seems some people finally got the memo that long hours and low pay isn’t worth the prestige of putting “worked at [INSERT BIG 4 FIRM NAME]” on their resumes anymore. And then there’s that other problem: those who […]
Deloitte Poaches Someone From PwC and Issues a Press Release, Part V
Not in Australia this time around. In today edition of “Big 4-on-Big 4 Poaching From Around the World,” we head across the Atlantic where the Queen’s Deloitte has nabbed a longtime PwCer and magically turned her into a partner: Deloitte in the UK has hired Kanika Mehta as their latest Partner to join their Transaction Services team, after […]
So How Much Did PwC U.K. Partners Rake In This Year?
Ferrari, Aston Martin, McLaren, Jaguar, and Mercedes-Benz dealerships in and around London probably have been bustling more than usual lately, and here’s why: PwC’s UK partners took home record pay this year after the firm’s profits rose by a quarter to a fresh high of almost £1.2bn on the boom in corporate dealmaking. Average profit […]
[UPDATED] PwC Delays Its Reopening Plan to Mid-Pumpkin Spice Latte Season, Mulls a Vaccine Mandate
News on the wire today is that PwC is pushing back its plan to get everyone back in the office, which had been tentatively planned for some time in mid-September but, well, y’all know how that’s been going. And by “the wire” we mean Reddit, which is generally a decent source for accounting news because […]
Deloitte Poaches Someone From PwC and Issues a Press Release, Part IV
Yesterday we told you about the big poaching spree by Deloitte Australia, as the firm recently added six new partners to its risk advisory business. Most of that kontingent is komprised of soon-to-be former KPMGers who will officially join Deloitte in October. But another one of the six came from P to the W to […]
Female PwC Employee Claims In Farewell Email She Was Fired Today For Calling Out Discrimination
A tipster sent us a link to a post on r/accounting that is generating quite the discussion this evening. In a goodbye email to her colleagues on Monday, a foreign-born Black woman who worked at PwC alleges she was discriminated against and denied a promotion three times because of her race, gender, and national origin. […]
Judge Sides with PwC In Whistleblower’s Retaliation Lawsuit
The cards are usually stacked against former Big 4 employees who take one of the firms to court, whether it’s over harassment, discrimination, retaliation, or unfair termination, because of the firms’ army of lawyers and their no-holds-barred approach to winning. Ex-PwC auditor Mauro Botta knew he faced an uphill battle trying to convince a judge […]
Thanks to Employee Surveys, PwC Australia Discovers the Startling Truth That Money Motivates Their People
Australian Financial Review is reporting today that PwC Australia is digging deep into their pockets and expanding the bonus pool based on input from employees who shocked the firm by making it clear that money is what motivates them above all else. PwC will increase the pay of its 8000-strong staff at a faster rate […]
This PwC Tax Manager Got So Bored Working From Home During Quarantine She Ended Up on Top Chef
It only took a year for 32-year-old Danie Baker of Seattle to go from working from home for PwC during lockdown to appearing on the new Top Chef spin-off Top Chef Amateurs, which debuted on July 1. The show lists her as a “tax accountant” but you know we snooped LinkedIn to find out she […]
The Pandemic Paid Off For PwC Partners Across the Pond
Good afternoon and happy Monday, grunts. Boy do I have something that is going to warm your cold black hearts. As we can all agree, the last year and a half has been rough. We’ve all had to make sacrifices, though thankfully many of us have at least gotten through it without having to put […]
PwC Poaches Someone From EY and Issues a Press Release, Part III
Hundreds of people have bolted EY to join PwC in different locations around the world the past dozen years but this is only the third time one of those moves has been documented on this here website. So congrats to Mike Holford for being the subject of this most recent “PwC Poaches Someone From EY […]
#TBT: That Time When PwC Global Chairman Bob Moritz Took a Pic with Bebe Rexha
The photo below was taken during the PwC Impact Conference at Walt Disney World, a three-day event where interns have to sit through some mind-numbingly boring sessions and are made to sing “Don’t Stop Believing” before they hit the swimming pool and hang out at Magic Kingdom. This particular year, 2019, the interns were treated […]
Promotion Watch ’21: PwC Canada Has 43 New Partners to Fawn Over
PwC of the Canadian variety has put its trust in these 25 men and 18 women that they will make it rain for years to come. This year’s class of new partners at PwC Canada is nearly double last year’s class, which had the unfortunate timing of being admitted shortly before the firm canned 5% […]
Deloitte Poaches Someone From PwC and Issues a Press Release, Part III
Tom Carter had been away from Deloitte for about two and a half years, so now that he’s back, I’m sure there were a few new people in his office or on his team that he was Deloitted to meet for the first time yesterday. In today edition of “Big 4-on-Big 4 Poaching From Around […]
PwC Has Gotten the U.K. Audit Cops’ Attention
The press release the U.K. Financial Reporting Council sent out earlier today was short and sweet—all of 64 words—but it likely sent a shiver down the spines of TPTB at PwC: The Financial Reporting Council (“FRC”) has commenced an investigation into PwC LLP in relation to its audit of the consolidated financial statements of Wyelands […]
Promotion Watch ’21: PwC Admits 63 Overachievers to the U.K. Partnership
The smell of new partners is in the air at the Queen’s PwC: Congratulations to the 63 new partners across our Audit, Consulting, Deals, Risk and Tax business divisions. Find out more: https://t.co/R1X0RW59XB pic.twitter.com/dR89znLKNK — PwC UK (@PwC_UK) June 24, 2021 Of the 63 P. Dubsteppers who get to sit at the adults’ table beginning […]
Bonus Watch ’21: PwC India Is Really Laying the Bonuses On Thick
As you know, the Big 4 are trying to make up for either completely ignoring or providing pathetic raises and bonuses to employees last year due to the pandemic, even though three of the four (womp, womp, KPMG) pulled in the most revenue in FY 2020 than they ever had before. It’s hard not to […]