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A KPMG Senior Director Got Beat Up By a Guy Who Stars in Reacher
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KPMG Picked an Aussie to Rule Over the Global Empire [UPDATED]
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Deloitte Runs a Photo Competition??
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EY Is Now Paying a $10k CPA Bonus
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Layoff Watch ’26: PwC Goes on a Rampage Across Talent Acquisition
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Friday Footnotes: EY Socks Away a Bunch of Money For Future Fines; Can You Leave at 5 and Still Make Partner? | 3.27.26
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…
The Top 20 Firm That Kicked Off PE Madness in 2021 and Its PE Firm Announce They’ll Keep Kickin’ It
EisnerAmper (#15 on the INSIDE Public Accounting Top 100 with $1.023 billion in revenue) and TowerBrook Capital announced yesterday that they've completed a continuation vehicle transaction which basically means TowerBrook…
A KPMG Senior Director Got Beat Up By a Guy Who Stars in Reacher
Oh my God it feels like it's 2010 all over again with that headline. Thanks to the algorithm for putting this item in my feed since no one saw fit…
You’ll Never Guess Who’s Most Likely to Get Tax Scammed
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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: One EYer Was Very Determined to Cheat; How Can You Not Know You Don’t Get Overtime? | 3.23.26
Hey, news lover. Here's what I was able to scrape up from our corner of the internet to get you nice and informed on this fine Monday morning. In this…
ICYMI: According to This AI CEO You Won’t Have to Go to Work in a Year
Commence to fantasizing about what you'll do with all that glorious free time when you lose your job to AI in 12-18 months because that's the confident prediction made by…
Another Early AI Accounting Startup Just Bit the Dust
TIL that early AI accounting platform Botkeeper has died. I found out via this CFO Brew article which pointed to a post on Botkeeper's own site. Turns out r/accounting was…
KPMG Brings Cheating Into the AI Age By Using AI to Cheat on AI Exams
The image is upside down because Australia. This story sounds like a joke but we assure you it is not. KPMG Australia has expanded KPMG's storied cheating repertoire by being…
KPMG Brings AI Talking Points to a Fee Negotiation, Inadvertently Opens a Pandora’s Box Filled With Stingy Clients
As reported by Financial Times on February 6, included in Friday's edition of Footnotes, and widely chuckled at by public accountants both current and former across the world since, KPMG…
Hackers Set Out to Ruin Tax Season Early For One Old-Ass Firm
'Tis the season. For alleged data breaches, that is. Cybernews is reporting that a Russian ransomware group called Lynx claims to have gotten its hands on a whole mess of…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | October 16, 2025
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Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | October 2, 2025
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Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | September 25, 2025
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Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | September 18, 2025
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Customer called to insist we update our entire system (emails, calls, receipts) so we remember to call him DOCTOR.
we looked him up. Doctorate in…accounting…
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2026: AI is going to change the world.
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Here Are Tax and Audit Salaries at Top 25, Top 300, and Regional Firms
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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
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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…
Did the SEC’s Acting Chief Accountant Have EY in Mind When He Wrote This?
The Australian Financial Review reported today that EY had hoped to temporarily share the EY […]
A 27-Year-Old Woman Working For EY Died at the Office Over the Weekend in Australia (UPDATE)
Ed. note: the earliest reports identified the woman as 33 years old, this has now […]
Deloitte Just Lost a Quiet Cybersquatting Dispute With a Privacy-Focused Crypto Company
Have you heard of DYKC? We haven’t. It’s not like it’s our job to know […]
Even KPMG in South Africa Could Not Escape the Clutches of PCAOB Enforcement
Earlier today the PCAOB gave KPMG of the South African variety a slap on the […]
ICYMI: KPMG Is Downsizing Its NYC Digs Big Time
KPMG announced last week it will relocate its headquarters to Two Manhattan West, a new […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Briefing: PwC India Hiring; CFO Expectations; EY’s Sales Pitch | 8.29.22
“Why aren’t there resources to help those with private loans get forgiveness?” asks a 34-year-old […]
Friday Footnotes: KPMG Downsizes (Office Space); CPA CPA CPA; Some Good News on Diversity | 8.26.22
Ed. note: apologies to the individual who criticized last week’s Footnotes headline for being too […]
Anyone Looking Forward to a Highly Militarized IRS SWAT Team is Going to Be Sorely Disappointed
Because the IRS SWAT team memes your crazy aunt Kathy is spreading on Facebook are […]
The PCAOB Has a New Five-Year Strategic Plan For You Guys to Critique
Nearly three weeks after getting reamed out publicly by SEC Chair Gary Gensler for being […]
CPA Who Gave Up Public Accounting to Drive an 18-Wheeler Says He Made More Money Driving a Truck
*post image is not Steve, just some guy from iStock Letters to the editor are […]
There is a GoFundMe for the Wife of Murdered BDO Atlanta Managing Director Wesley Freeman
Wesley Freeman with his wife, Alicia. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported today that a GoFundMe campaign has […]