Following up yesterday’s article covering the most-read stories of 2025, today we bring you the […]
Deloitte Saw Another Year of Single-Digit Growth, a Respectable $74.5 Billion in Revenue
It's revenue season! Traditionally Deloitte is first to report and report they have: $74.5 billion in global revenue (unaudited). Last year, the firm was the first Big 4 to cross…
EY GDS Philippines Turns 11, Celebrates By Planning to Hire An Additional 2,000 People
EY's global delivery machine in The Philippines is marking 11 years this month and as a treat, they're apparently adding 2,000 more people to its roster of more than 6,000…
Revenue Is Down For the First Time in 17 Years But at Least Partners Got a Raise at PwC UK
Looks like offshoring and layoffs couldn't save the King's PwC from a revenue slump this year. The firm has just reported revenue of £6.2 billion (approximately $8.28 billion USD), a…
EY Got the Big Pentagon Audit Job
This according to what the Department of War put up yesterday: Ernst & Young LLP, New York, New York, is being awarded a labor-hour contract with a maximum value of…
Chief Operating Officer Punted From the Partnership Post-Audit Scandal Sues KPMG
The former chief operating officer and audit partner who said at a parliamentary hearing last month that she didn't recall stuffing confidential documents in her personal locker is now suing…
Friday Footnotes: Deloitte Predicts AI Will Prop Up a Blah Economy; Wait, Hostages Were Racking Up Tax Penalties All This Time? | 10.2.26
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…
RSM Is Allegedly Thinking About an IPO
And according to the source or sources blabbing this to Financial Times, it's because their rivals are all getting bought up by private equity. By rivals we of course mean…
Deloitte Saw Another Year of Single-Digit Growth, a Respectable $74.5 Billion in Revenue
It's revenue season! Traditionally Deloitte is first to report and report they have: $74.5 billion in global revenue (unaudited). Last year, the firm was the first Big 4 to cross…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: They’re Begging Firms to Hire Grads Now; Who Wants to Be a CFO Anyway | 9.28.26
Hey, you. I've trekked across the internet to bring you the finest accounting and accounting-adjacent news I could find. I hope you like it. In this news briefIs It Services…
Friday Footnotes: KPMG Puts Up Money For Excellence in Accounting; The Secret to a Promotion Is Never Saying No | 9.25.26
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…
Bill Gates Predicts AI Will Be Taking Clients’ Most Tedious Questions 24/7 Within a Few Years
Did you catch Bill Gates' recent chat with Ezra Klein? I didn't, thankfully my washed colleague regularly reads NYT and sent it to me via Slack. Many people are stuck…
The AICPA Wants Tax Pros to Take a Hit From Its New AI Risk CART
Rather than dropping a strongly worded letter on the topic of the IRS's position on AI in tax practice and dropping the topic there to focus on other pressing matters,…
Deloitte Survey: A Lot of People Are Using Clandestine AI at Work
As corporations everywhere shove AI down our throats and businesses wrestle with the conflict between rushing to integrate AI to not be left behind and having to pay for it…
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…
Expense Management: Because Apparently Clients Will Pay You to Make Expense Reports Suck Less
Spend and expense management is one of the most in-demand CAS services—and one of the most underutilized. There’s still plenty of room to get into the game. Clients are drowning…
For Firms, Growth is Down But Profitability Is Up
That's the headline from INSIDE Public Accounting based on the results of their 2026 Practice Management Report: The report draws on survey responses from 605 North American accounting firms, spanning…
AICPA Pushes Back on IRS Suggesting CPAs Should Charge Less If They’re Using AI
Back in June the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) issued its first solid AI guidance in the form of a bulletin titled Introductory Guidelines for Responsible AI Use in…
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…
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TIL Hester Peirce is leaving the SEC. She penned some savage dissents over the years and the absence of her cynical poetry shall be noticed in the years ahead 🫡
Thanks for the many kind words over the past week & for the engagement over my time at the SEC. Thanks to my many critics too. Vigorous critiques of government officials are part of what makes this country great. No more tweets from this account. Be careful out there:
The IRS is looking for VITA/TCE volunteers for filing season.
Last year, I said yes—and ended up preparing tax returns in rural Alaska, traveling by single-engine plane and snowmobile. ❄️
You don’t need tax experience to volunteer. Here’s more:
Via @CNBC: Democratic Texas AG candidate vows to probe Deloitte’s role in voter registration delay
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…
Expense Management: Because Apparently Clients Will Pay You to Make Expense Reports Suck Less
Spend and expense management is one of the most in-demand CAS services—and one of the most underutilized. There’s still plenty of room to get into the game. Clients are drowning…
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,…
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 […]
A Whole Lot of People Squeezed in One Last CPA Exam Section in 2025
The last batch of CPA exam scores released in 2025 were dropped on the 16th […]
From ‘Think Like a Manager’ to ‘Please Make Eye Contact’: PwC Adjusts Expectations
Do you remember that story from August about how PwC planned to teach associates to […]
KPMG Reports $39.8 Billion in Revenue for 2025 (With Several Asterisks)
The last Big 4 firm to report revenue every year reported revenue today and it’s […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Earns an Investigation For Falling to Rotate; Companies Spending on Tech, Not People | 12.15.25
Good morning, capital markets servants! We’re running out of Mondays pretty quickly here, this is […]