We received a tip yesterday that seems to be confirmed based on secondary conversations we’ve […]
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…
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…
PwC CEO Said He’s Cool With It If His Kids Want to Go Into Consulting
Paul Griggs continues giving Business Insider his $0.02 with another article in a series of articles featuring the 30-year PwC veteran's wisdom: The career advice PwC's US CEO says he…
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…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: No More Traditional Audit Internships at EY; Guy Has Some Choice Words For Big 4 | 8.17.26
Hey you, you're finally awake. We're not going to Helgen, we're reading accounting news. In this news briefBig Government Payday For EY and KPMGEY Burns Down the Old Intern-to-Associate PipelineOh…
Friday Footnotes: IT Manager at Stole 423 Deloitte Laptops to Fund His Stock Trading Addiction; AI Agents at EY to Get Their Own Executive Manager | 8.14.26
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…
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…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | July 24, 2025
Struggling to Find Remote Accounting Talent? We’ve Got You Covered. If your firm or internal […]
Wow Prometric Really Sucks Now
Do you guys remember back in 2023 when someone claiming to be a Prometric insider […]
More Than Half of UK Firms Surveyed Aren’t Interested in Private Equity
For their headline about a professional services survey from UK law firm Kingsley Napley, Accountancy […]
EY Janitorial Staff Are Protesting the Firm’s Shitty Treatment and Looming Layoffs
In London last week, a good number of the cleaning staff who keep EY UK […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: AI Eats Up Consulting; Deloitte RTO Leads to “Rage” | 7.21.25
Hey. Some news if you want it. The Observer on shrinking headcounts at consulting firms, […]
Friday Footnotes: Is AI Actually Improving Audits?; Activists Try to Save Direct File | 7.18.25
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At This Rate PE Will Have Invested More Money in CPA Firms Than KPMG Makes in a Year
$28.7 billion. That’s the amount of money that’s been poured into CPA firms in the […]
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | July 17, 2025
Struggling to Find Remote Accounting Talent? We’ve Got You Covered. If your firm or internal […]
Erica Williams Bids Adieu to the PCAOB
Announced yesterday, PCAOB Chair Erica Y. Williams, who just got appointed to a second five-year […]
CPA Firms Are No Longer Full of CPAs
Just weeks after the profession got in a tizzy about private equity-owned firms telling staff […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Form 3 Claims Another Victim; Deloitte Wins HR Awards | 7.14.25
Good morning, people! Got a little news for you. Great just what we need, religious […]