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Deloitte’s DEI Goals Ended Up Slightly More Expensive Than Anticipated
Yesterday the Department of Justice announced a False Claims Act resolution with Deloitte, who have agreed to pay the United States $21.5 million to resolve allegations that they violated the…
After Consulting Takes a Double-Digit Revenue Hit, KPMG Australia Cuts Workforce By 5 Percent
As of the end of July, the rumor was that KPMG Australia would be letting go of as many as 1,000 people and a few dozen partners as it cleans…
Compensation Watch ’26: EY Raises and Promotions Feel Marginally Less Bad This Year
Promotion time has rolled around at EY and that means users gathered at r/Big4 to share their numbers. There are, as of press time, 637 comments (we let it sit…
EY Is Giving Audit Interns 8 to 12 Months to Prove They’re Useful
While intern season is wrapping up and interns are shedding tears over a lack of feedback while they sweat it out waiting for return offers that seem to take longer…
Sandy Torchia is Out, Jason LaRue is in as Vice Chair of Talent & Culture at KPMG
Announced yesterday via press release, KPMG has picked Jason LaRue as its next Vice Chair of Talent & Culture. He replaces Sandy Torchia, who will be riding off into the…
Friday Footnotes: Salaries Are Slipping at the Staff Level; PwC International Not Off the Hook in Evergrande Lawsuit | 8.28.26
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. While you're here, subscribe to our newsletter to…
Deloitte’s DEI Goals Ended Up Slightly More Expensive Than Anticipated
Yesterday the Department of Justice announced a False Claims Act resolution with Deloitte, who have agreed to pay the United States $21.5 million to resolve allegations that they violated the…
India’s Still Talking About Making Their Own Consulting Firms to Compete With Big 4
It's been almost ten years since prime minister Narendra Modi first floated the idea of India homebrewing their own consulting firms to compete on the global stage against the real…
After Consulting Takes a Double-Digit Revenue Hit, KPMG Australia Cuts Workforce By 5 Percent
As of the end of July, the rumor was that KPMG Australia would be letting go of as many as 1,000 people and a few dozen partners as it cleans…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The Newspaper Says It’s Probably For the Best If You Got Laid Off From KPMG; IRS Employee Union Has Beef With CEO Role | 8.24.26
Good morning, party people. Got a couple things for you. In this news briefLayoffs Start at KPMGGuess We Need to Read Up on the History of TiresHow AI Is Changing…
Bill Gates Proposes a Tokens and Robots Tax
Bill Gates has written a loooong essay on AI covering all sorts of things from potential benefits to immediate concerns. Feel free to read the whole thing if you'd like,…
Firms (and Some Guy Obsessed With China) Have Weighed in on the PCAOB Turning an Eye to AI
The comment period for PCAOB Release No. 2026-005 Request for Public Comment on PCAOB Standard Setting has closed and when all was said and done, it racked up an unremarkable…
Audit Leaders Currently in the “Throw AI at the Wall and See What Sticks” Phase
Gartner has released some numbers on AI usage they harvested from audit professionals and the headline figure shouldn't surprise anyone: only 7% of those surveyed report they aren't using AI…
EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client (UPDATE)
Ed. note: This article was originally published on July 23, 2026. It was updated on July 30, 2026. Just as EY was moving on from the 2023 MOVEit data breach…
Big 4 Firm With AI Quotas Unironically Explains Why AI Quotas Are Such a Terrible Idea in Latest Survey
KPMG has released its AI Quarterly Pulse Survey for Q2 2026 and we're gonna have to be real with you, it's all over the place. Not the survey itself, just…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | October 16, 2025
Struggling to Find Remote Accounting or Tax Talent? We’ve Got You Covered.If your firm or internal team is having a tough time sourcing qualified remote tax and accounting professionals, you're…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | October 2, 2025
Struggling to Find Remote Accounting or Tax Talent? We’ve Got You Covered.If your firm or internal team is having a tough time sourcing qualified remote tax and accounting professionals, you're…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | September 25, 2025
Struggling to Find Remote Accounting or Tax Talent? We’ve Got You Covered.If your firm or internal team is having a tough time sourcing qualified remote tax and accounting professionals, you're…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | September 18, 2025
Struggling to Find Remote Accounting or Tax Talent? We’ve Got You Covered.If your firm or internal team is having a tough time sourcing qualified remote tax and accounting professionals, you're…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | September 4, 2025
Struggling to Find Remote Accounting Talent? We’ve Got You Covered. If your firm or internal team is having a tough time sourcing qualified remote tax and accounting professionals, you're not…
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Here Are Tax and Audit Salaries at Top 25, Top 300, and Regional Firms
Recruiting firm Brewer Morris has released its 2025 US CPA salary guide and should you want to read the whole thing you can request it from them here. Perhaps you,…
Friendly Reminder Not to Work Yourself to Death For This Profession
Saw this on the bird app yesterday and thought its message would be worth passing along what with 20 days remaining until April 15 and nerves as strained as ever…
Accounting Firm Abruptly Nopes Out of Tax Season Early (UPDATE)
Ed. note: An earlier version of this article's headline stated the sheriff is investigating. The Alexander County Sheriff's Office informed us they are not investigating, only fielding calls from the…
This Deloitte Office Has Eliminated Trash Cans at Desks to Make Staff Get Up Off Their Asses
Boston Business Journal wrote an article about Deloitte's new office in Boston and for some reason they chose to lead with this: You won’t find trash cans at the desks…
The IRS Decided to Troll Tax Pros For 10/15
We realize the decision to run maintenance on IRS systems likely isn't made by anyone who understands deadlines but surely someone who does could inform the IT department of these…
Top Remote Accounting Freelancers: February 3, 2024
Looking to staff up for a season or hire a freelancer for a project? Accountingfly is ready to partner with you! Gain full access to a pool of highly skilled…
10 Essential Project Management Principles for Accounting Firms
Every accounting firm struggles with project management, with smaller practices that are rapidly expanding taking the brunt of the damage. As your firm adds new clients, takes on more work,…
6 Ways Email is Secretly Destroying Your Accounting Firm
Email: The word itself sounds innocent, doesn't it? Kind of like "snail mail," but faster, sleeker, and without the slimy trail. But don't be fooled—email is secretly a sinister beast,…
Don’t Grow Your Accounting Firm Out of Business! Break Up With These Unscalable Practices Now
Business growth is always a high priority for accounting firms, especially small-to-midsize practices. Take care, though, because growth can be a double-edged sword. If your firm expands too quickly or…
No One Cares But Here Are PwC’s 2023 Metaverse Predictions Anyway
What’s next for the metaverse and what — if anything — should you do about […]
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An Accounting Firm Is Hiring an Honest-to-God Actor to Perform in a Client Onboarding Video
Googling “accounting firm” as I do each and every day multiple times a day in […]
It’s Official: 120 Units is All You Need to Sit For the CPA Exam in Illinois
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KPMG Still Rocks at Having the Worst PCAOB Inspection Report Among the Big 4
The last of the 2021 Big 4 PCAOB inspection reports belongs to KPMG, which has […]
Exposure Drafts: Happy Same As Last Year!
Listen to Oh My Fraud, a podcast by Caleb Newquist and Greg Kyte, and get free […]
Even People Who Majored in Accounting Don’t Want To Be Accountants
Pay extra close attention to accounting firm press releases this year, they will be packed […]
Apparently Staff at Deloitte UK Did Not Warm Up to the Firm’s Money-Saving Cold Office Policy
In what was a particularly dry day for news seeing as it was the first […]
FASB Took It Easy in 2022
While the PCAOB has been on a mission to scare the pants off of auditors […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Welcome to ’23; Deloitte Gets Chilly; Stop B*tching About Busy Season! | 1.2.23
Welcome to 2023! You made it! So happy to see you. Let’s see if anything […]
ICYMI: The Ten Most Popular, Not at All Clickbaity Stories of 2022
With just seconds left in 2022 (this is scheduled to publish on 11:59 PM on […]
Now That Six Years of His Tax Returns Are Public, Here Are Four Words That Describe Donald Trump the Businessman
From the Los Angeles Times today: During the years in which Trump battled disclosure, much […]