Across the pond, audit fees are up (22% in four years) and apparently the companies […]
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Friday Footnotes: A (Fake) Day in the Life at Deloitte; DYNAMIC Merger For Grant Thornton; CPA Awareness | 12.9.22
News Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud [CNN] A Manhattan […]
PwC Declares a Poaching War on EY
As EY continues to hammer out the details of the audit and consulting split, PwC […]
Friday Footnotes: Why People Leave Public Accounting; Audit Workloads Up; Terrorist Clients (Literally) | 12.2.22
Slow news week this week. We managed to find some things worth mentioning anyway as […]
BDO UK Spreads the Load
FT had an interesting story yesterday about a situation across the pond: average BDO UK […]
Friday Footnotes: How EY Fights Poaching; Lack of Staff Is Closing Doors; Accounting to Biglaw? | 11.25.22
Big 4 FRC to fine Deloitte £440k over 2018 audit [Accountancy Today] The Financial Reporting […]
Friday Footnotes: Retired EY Partners Hate on the Split; It’s a Raid!; ‘An Alphabet Soup of Technology’ | 11.18.22
Big 4 EY split threatens to weaken both sides of firm, say retired partners [Financial […]
Five Ways to Incorporate Profitability Into Your Practice
It’s official, we have reached the exciting future 1950s sci-fi magazines promised us. We have […]
Friday Footnotes: Behemoth Big 4 Firms Get Behemothier; Audits Get Harder; Eliminate Clients! | 11.11.22
Ed. note: if you like accounting news, which you clearly do because you are reading […]
Friday Footnotes: PwC Does Some Things; Bad Client Dumps EY; ‘Going From Balloon Animals to Accountancy’ | 11.4.22
Footnotes is a weekly wrap-up of all the news in and around the accounting profession, […]
Friday Footnotes: Rettig Is Out at IRS; KPMG and Deloitte Suck at Auditing; Desperate For Accountants | 10.28.22
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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Is Twice as Bad as Other Firms; Upskill or Die; Hella M&A | 10.21.22
Big 4 KPMG flunks US overseas audit inspections twice as often as rivals [Financial Times] […]