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Bonus Watch ’26: No Bonuses at BDO?
Fresh from the tipline, a tipster informs us there will be no bonuses at BDO […]
Congratulations to This Tiny 673-Person Town on Earning a Spot in Future Fraud Training Slides
Wow, we haven’t seen crazy unauthorized city spending like this since Rita Crundwell, except instead […]
Note to PwC Partners: Don’t Tell Reporters You Plan to Divorce Your Wife to Hide Assets After an Audit Scandal
Welp there goes at least one PwC partner’s plan to divorce his spouse to protect […]
Layoff Watch ’26: Big Cuts Are Coming at KPMG Australia
This just in from Financial Review: KPMG is preparing to cut hundreds of jobs and […]
Turns Out Firms Don’t Like It When You Offshore Yourself
A man fired from PwC Ireland for working in India when he was supposed to […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Lets the PCAOB Know They’re in Some Trouble; Accenture Experiences an “Isolated Matter” | 7.13.26
Good morning, capital markets servants. Did anyone else get their Unown platinum medal over the […]
Friday Footnotes: PwC Lays Off in Audit, KPMG Makes Back Office Cuts; AI Company Wants Guidance From the PCAOB | 7.10.26
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans […]
Activist Investor Tells CBIZ They Need More Acquisitions in Their Life
The last we checked in on happenings at CBIZ, we reported some info provided via […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Cool It on the Scandals, Students Are Watching; Quarterly Reporting Proposal Overwhelmingly Opposed | 7.6.26
Happy post-Independence Day! Hope everyone had a good holiday and still has all their fingers […]
The SEC’s Quarterly Reporting Proposal Is Catnip for Comment Letter Writers, Investors Not So Much
As you may have heard (or may have seen via our three previous stories about […]
EY Consultant Discovers One Weird Trick to Never Work in Banking Again, Or Big 4 For That Matter
Have you ever been tempted to poke around a bit too hard in material that […]