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Deloitte’s DEI Goals Ended Up Slightly More Expensive Than Anticipated
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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
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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
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Bill Gates Proposes a Tokens and Robots Tax
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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
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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
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
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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
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Accounting Firm Abruptly Nopes Out of Tax Season Early (UPDATE)
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This Deloitte Office Has Eliminated Trash Cans at Desks to Make Staff Get Up Off Their Asses
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The IRS Decided to Troll Tax Pros For 10/15
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Top Remote Accounting Freelancers: February 3, 2024
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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…
BDO USA Had a Pretty Good 2022 Revenue-Wise
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Deloitte Has Calculated the Tangible and Intangible Value of the Roman Colosseum Because of Course They Did
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This EY Canada Recruitment Video Said ‘Belong’ So Many Times the Word Lost Its Meaning
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Which Firm Had the Most IPO Audit Clients In Q2 2022?
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Deloitte Is Getting a Service Doggo!
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KPMG UK Somehow Won’t Be Getting a Record Fine From the Financial Reporting Council For Carillion Mess (UPDATE)
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Letter to the Editor: Small Firms Are Suffering in This Market, Does Anyone Care?
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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Sucks at Auditing; Accounting Headaches; KPMG Partner Banned | 7.25.22
Some headlines to get you started on this fine Monday: KPMG partner banned from accounting […]
Friday Footnotes: New Managers Share Wisdom; KPMG Praised??; PwC Creeps Leave | 7.22.22
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UK Audit Watchdog Says Deloitte Is Doing Some Good Auditing Across the Pond
Deloitte is doing a great job keeping the Financial Reporting Council happy these days. Per […]
Canadian Accounting Firms Are Getting Rid of Bonuses So They Can Pay More?
CPA Canada has shared some Canadian accounting firm hiring trends worth keeping an eye on. […]