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Deloitte to Slash Benefits For Non Client-Facing Staff
We specifically added the non-client-facing bit in the headline soz not to scare everyone. It's rough enough out there on the front lines as it is, we don't need to…
Uh Oh, PwC Is Up to Something
By "something" we mean "aggressively enshittifying their product." Bet clients and prospective clients will just love that. Financial Times reports that their birdies are pointing to an overhaul in consulting…
Apparently Shouting “Promote Me! Promote Me!” in a Partner’s Face Can Get You Promoted at Deloitte
Over in Ireland there's a case before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) right now that may be of interest to our readers, our readers being people who are all too…
AI Will Be EY Auditors’ New BFF, According to EY
While staff in tax at EY US will soon be spending more time with their flesh-based colleagues due to a return-to-office mandate that requires them in the office for an…
Once Again, a Mid-Tier Firm Beat Out Big 4 on This ‘Best Companies’ List
Fortune has released its Best Companies to Work For list for 2026 and we just realized we didn't cover it at all last year. Shrug, it's all just marketing anyway.…
Friday Footnotes: PwC Partners Are Doing Great These Days; IRS Encourages Whistleblowing | 4.17.26
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 to Slash Benefits For Non Client-Facing Staff
We specifically added the non-client-facing bit in the headline soz not to scare everyone. It's rough enough out there on the front lines as it is, we don't need to…
Uh Oh, PwC Is Up to Something
By "something" we mean "aggressively enshittifying their product." Bet clients and prospective clients will just love that. Financial Times reports that their birdies are pointing to an overhaul in consulting…
Faced With PR Nightmare Due to Email Mistake, Becker Chooses the “Fine, Everyone Wins” Option
While I'm sure a majority of our readers got their CPA review courses for free through whatever firm hired them after graduation, for those going it alone the cost of…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Tax Day Used to Be a Big Party; A Tale of Two PwCs | 4.13.26
Good morning, brave soldiers of the spreadsheets. Set yourself a calendar reminder to check in with your favorite tax person some time later this week, see how they're doing. How…
AI Will Be EY Auditors’ New BFF, According to EY
While staff in tax at EY US will soon be spending more time with their flesh-based colleagues due to a return-to-office mandate that requires them in the office for an…
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…
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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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…
Promotion Watch ’21: Wipfli Adds 19 New Partners and Principals
The other night I was watching the WGN Evening News when Wipfli partner Geoff Harlow […]
Friday Footnotes: Too Hot For Immateriality; Deloitte Ditches the Office; Diversity? I Hardly Know Her! | 6.18.21
AICPA, CAQ support SEC’s exploration of climate change disclosures [Journal of Accountancy] The AICPA and […]
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 […]