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- Layoff Watch ’26: The King’s KPMG Kindly Asks 600 Auditors to GTFO
- Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Asks Hundreds of People to Go; One Big Beautiful Bill Equals Billable Hours | 3.30.26
- Friday Footnotes: EY Socks Away a Bunch of Money For Future Fines; Can You Leave at 5 and Still Make Partner? | 3.27.26
Layoff Watch ’26: The King’s KPMG Kindly Asks 600 Auditors to GTFO
We covered this story in yesterday's Monday Morning Accounting News Brief but it's significant enough news to earn its own spot in a separate article as it's a large market…
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…
KPMG Picked an Aussie to Rule Over the Global Empire [UPDATED]
Ed. note: This article was originally published on March 5, 2026. It was updated on March 18 after KPMG made a public announcement confirming Gary Wingrove as Global Chairman and…
Deloitte Runs a Photo Competition??
Wait, what is this? Deloitte Italy and Fondazione Deloitte [Deloitte Foundation] are handing out tens of thousands of euros in a photo competition centered around the subject of "proximites." Why?…
EY Is Now Paying a $10k CPA Bonus
Anyone in the mood for a bit of good news? Here goes: EY is doubling their CPA bonus for early career new hires who can manage to pass all four…
Layoff Watch ’26: The King’s KPMG Kindly Asks 600 Auditors to GTFO
We covered this story in yesterday's Monday Morning Accounting News Brief but it's significant enough news to earn its own spot in a separate article as it's a large market…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Asks Hundreds of People to Go; One Big Beautiful Bill Equals Billable Hours | 3.30.26
Good morning and happy Monday, capital markets servants. I ventured out into the muck to dig up some news for you to start the week. In this news briefYour Services…
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…
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
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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Via @BusinessInsider: For some Gen Z consultants, the hottest new exit opportunity is TikTok
Wow
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…
What do you do next?
2026: AI is going to change the world.
IRS: We need your fax number.
"According to KPMG’s Winter Intern Pulse Survey, Gen Z will sacrifice on average $5,000 of their salary to achieve a better work-life balance. At the same time, 92% expressed at least some interest in achieving a C-suite or senior executive role."
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…
F*ck the Firms, It’s Your Show Now
Several weeks back I had an early morning appointment halfway across town and though I […]
PwC Is a Name You Can Trust … Or So It Claims
Hey all you Trusty McTrustersons! Here’s an excerpt from a post Trusty Tim Ryan published […]
The IMA Is Beefing With the AICPA and NASBA Over the Future of Accounting Education
Today, the AICPA and NASBA unveiled their highly anticipated CPA Evolution Model Curriculum — CPAEMC […]
KPMG Poaches Someone From PwC and Issues a Press Release, Part XIV
Andrew Yates has put together a squad—six men (including Yates) and six women—who will act […]
Promotion Watch ’21: Eide Bailly Gave 22 Lucky Boys and Girls Their New Partner Stickers
The new partner train keeps chuggin’ along. It stopped at Eide Bailly on May 1, […]
Promotion Watch ’21: Here Are the 14 Newest Deloitte Consulting Partners In India
The newly minted partners at Deloitte Consulting in India started their sweet gigs a couple […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Ex-Missouri CPA Would Have Made Bernie Madoff Proud
Former Lebanon, MO, accountant Douglas Richardson found out on June 10 how long he’ll be […]
Friday Footnotes: A Deloitteful Failure; PwC Hunts For Missing Emails; CPAs Tell Clients GTFO | 6.11.21
Deloitte Sued for Allegedly Failing to Find ‘Irregularities’ in Audits of Singapore Oil Trader [Insurance […]
Is It Time For Prometric to Ditch the Mask Mandate?
On May 16, 2021 the CDC announced that fully vaccinated individuals could enthusiastically rip the […]
Making Remote Work: June’s Hottest Remote Accounting Jobs
Looking for a truly remote accounting job—one that doesn’t transform into an in-office grind after […]
EY Global CEO Carmine Di Sibio Spotted at Tonight’s New York Islanders Playoff Game
A tweet tonight from ESPN senior NHL writer Greg Wyshynski: Wow #JerseyFoul pic.twitter.com/d9XDWuWlts — Greg […]