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- After Consulting Takes a Double-Digit Revenue Hit, KPMG Australia Cuts Workforce By 5 Percent
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- Friday Footnotes: Firm in Whistleblower Scandal Ends Whistleblower Service For Clients; Evergrande Liquidators Mad at Regulators For Settling | 8.21.26
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…
The PCAOB Won’t Be Wagging Their Disappointed Finger at Big 4 Firms This Year
After several years of inspection reports full of deficiencies and many attempts at public shaming to get firms to focus on audit quality that culminated in a scathing op-ed in…
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…
Friday Footnotes: Firm in Whistleblower Scandal Ends Whistleblower Service For Clients; Evergrande Liquidators Mad at Regulators For Settling | 8.21.26
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 IRS is Looking For a Few Good Special Agents
When you were little did you ever wish you could grow up to be a super cool agent? If you missed the chance to be recruited by the CIA at…
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…
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…
Beware This Hot New Scam: LinkedIn Job Hunt Takes a Sharp Detour Into Attempted Bank Emptying
Saw this post on r/accounting and while I know some of you feel a certain type of way about using Reddit for "content" it felt important to pass along to…
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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EY Is Giving Audit Interns 8 to 12 Months to Prove They’re Useful
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…
EY Decided Not to Move From Its Global HQ in London
While we work on a story about Deloitte’s soon-to-be new home in New York City, […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Accounting Is Not Going Away (Sorry); Tax Preparers Wanted, No Experience Necessary | 1.5.26
Welcome back to the working world, you. I saw someone on Reddit saying yesterday was […]
Friday Footnotes: Lawsuit Against Deloitte For Rescinded H1-B Job Offer Denied; Annoyed Town Residents Learn the True Meaning of Audit | 1.2.26
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans […]
Editor’s Picks: The Funniest, Dumbest, and Okayest News of 2025
Following up yesterday’s article covering the most-read stories of 2025, today we bring you the […]
Layoffs, Canceled Snacks, and the Rapture: These Are the Most-Read Stories of 2025
With Christmas out of the way and the first day of 2026 soon upon us, […]
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 […]
Friday Footnotes: While You’re Cozy at Home, the IRS Is Working; From Secretary to Firm Owner | 12.26.25
A belated Happy Holidays and an early Happy New Year to all of you! This […]
BDO Netherlands Disciplined for Not Pretending Hard Enough That Internal Exams Matter
As you may recall in case you’re ever asked “What is the largest PCAOB fine […]
Dog Mom Challenges the Tax Code on Behalf of All Financially Dependent Good Boys and Girls
As first reported by Kelly Phillips Erb over at Forbes (hi, Kelly!), attorney and dog […]
Senators Are Slightly Worried the IRS Is Not at All Prepared For the 2026 Filing Season
Democrat senators are worried that the IRS is so not ready for the upcoming filing […]
Friday Footnotes: McKinsey Readies For Layoffs; Tax the Rich, Says Rich Guy | 12.19.25
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans […]