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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
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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 […]
The Department of War Broke Up with KPMG, KPMG Gives Up Federal Audits Altogether
The other day — and by the other day we mean like more than a […]
Layoff Watch ’26: Forvis Mazars Cuts 3% of the Workforce in Unusual Post-Busy Season Culling
As reported by WSJ yesterday and Reddit a few days before that, Forvis Mazars is […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: 990s to Get a Facelift; DOJ Gets Busy Busting Fraud | 4.27.26
Hey. Looking like this is gonna be a short news brief, it was a quiet […]
Friday Footnotes: Partners Taking Ls; PwC Eats a Big Ol’ Fine; A Post 4/20 IRS Surprise | 4.24.26
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans […]