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Layoff Watch ’26: Grant Thornton Making Some Cuts This Week
As discussed in this Reddit post and in a few tips we’ve gotten on the […]
Private Equity Took a Big Bite Out of Grant Thornton UK Profits
While partners at Grant Thornton Australia prepare for a windfall of $5 million each after […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big Payout for Grant Thornton; Is the SEC Elbowing Out the PCAOB? | 5.11.26
Good morning, capital markets servants. Got a little news for you. Gonna be a short […]
Friday Footnotes: KPMG Staff Not Happy With How Layoffs Were Handled; SEC Says PCAOB Should Toss Independence Rules | 5.8.26
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans […]
In a Final Rule, Dept of Education Is Unswayed By the AICPA’s Strongly Worded Letters About the Meaning of Words
In the final ruling of a game of semantics that really chapped the AICPA’s ass, […]
Plante Moran Goes South of the Border to Acquire a Firm in Mexico
Shoutout to the person who sent us a link to this, might have slipped past […]
Layoff Watch ’26: RSM Trims Down in Audit
Seeing a couple Reddit posts about a wave of “Business Update” meetings being forced on […]
SEC Says “What If We Just… Didn’t” on Quarterly Reporting
So that thing that started with a Trump shower thought last fall and that WSJ […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Claude Starts a Turf War With Consulting; An Article About How Much Big 4 Sucks | 5.4.26
Good morning! Not a fan of Star Wars so I won’t be making any May […]
Friday Footnotes: Maybe Deloitte Doesn’t Need Employee Trust and Retention; Minnesota Wants to Tax Fraud at 100 Percent | 5.1.26
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans […]
Layoff Watch ’26: KPMG Cuts 4% From Consulting
We’ve got another RIF at KPMG, a consulting cull that went down yesterday (that’s Wednesday […]