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Category: The Serious Questions
What Happens to DEI at the Big Firms Now?
In July 2023, a nonprofit group called America First Legal — founded by Trump senior […]
ESOP Accounting Firm CEO Talks Some Shit About PE-Backed Firms
Last year the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) put together a […]
Big 4 Firms Fight Against Metrics That Would Reveal the Workloads Behind the Curtain
While the AICPA and large accounting firms have begged urged the SEC not to approve […]
So How Did Your 2024 Predictions For the Accounting Profession Work Out?
At the start of last year we ran a little survey asking readers what they […]
Year-End Close: These Are the Most-Read Stories of 2024
With just a day and a half remaining before the clock ticks over to a […]
An Accountant’s Weekend Reading | 12.27.24
Friday Footnotes will return on January 3, 2025. That’s next Friday, just by the way. […]
Dunno Who Needs to Read This Today, It’s Probably You
Stop normalizing overwork. Related: Merry Christmas, everyone. Log off.
PE Partner Reveals the Real Reason Private Equity is Going Crazy For Accounting
The quotes you’re going to read below were shared in last Friday’s Footnotes but we […]
Company That Supposedly Laid People Off For Being Too Stressed Says It Was All a PR Stunt
A startup in India named YesMadam is getting its ass beat on social media this […]
Drama of the Day: CPA Learns That ‘Americans Are Lazy’ Is an Unpopular Opinion
Thanks to the Xitterian who alerted me to this tweet and its responses because boy […]
Let’s Speculate Wildly About Which Mid-Tier Firm is About to Announce a Private Equity Deal (UPDATE)
Someone on r/accounting with a very legit-looking username and sparse comment history said today that […]