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Deloitte Guy’s Love Life Has Become a Federal Matter
Last Friday, 42-year-old Ian Brinksman was picked up by the feds for allegedly passing top secret national defense information to another individual. Though that individual wasn't named by any reports,…
Hackers Have Apparently Stolen a Whole Lot of PwC Homework
Oh no, hackers have swiped oodles of slides! PwC has confirmed that a third-party vendor it uses for employee records has been breached after a "cyber extortion group" said they…
PwC Ekes Past EY With $60.2 Billion in Reported Global Revenue
Wow, Big 4 are really rushing out revenue numbers this year aren't they? First we got Deloitte in late September, EY two weeks later, and now PwC has just dropped…
KPMG Australia Has Made a List of Things It Probably Should Have Done Already
...such as "support whistleblowers" and "punish people who do stuff that will give Australian Financial Review an easy 9 months of negative headlines." So KPMG Australia is still in its…
EY Didn’t Do Too Bad Last Year
Shortly after Deloitte released their 2026 revenue numbers on September 24, EY had some numbers of their own, announcing $57 billion in global revenue last week. Notably, they edged out…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Boss Hates Work From Home; KPMG Catches Some Heat For Personnel Plans | 11.2.26
Hey. Put down the fun size candy bar and read some news. In this news briefFar Be It From the SEC to Hinder Technological InnovationGT + CBIZ 4EverKPMG Gets Some…
Friday Footnotes: IRS Employees Told Not to Deliberately Choose Mediocrity; EY Partners Give Themselves Record Pay | 10.30.26
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 Guy’s Love Life Has Become a Federal Matter
Last Friday, 42-year-old Ian Brinksman was picked up by the feds for allegedly passing top secret national defense information to another individual. Though that individual wasn't named by any reports,…
CBIZ Shareholders Are Cool With the Grant Thornton Merger, the Deal is a Go
While everyone has been distracted by Anthropic's S1, another filing slipped past: a Form 8-K filed by CBIZ on October 27. If you didn't know that Viking ParentCo, Inc. and…
Looks Like Accounting’s Private Equity Feeding Frenzy Is Chilling Out Into a Nibble
According to CPA Trendlines' CPA PE Deal Tracker, which we must say is absolutely amazing, private equity firms are no longer gobbling up accounting firms like they were. Deal volume…
Hackers Have Apparently Stolen a Whole Lot of PwC Homework
Oh no, hackers have swiped oodles of slides! PwC has confirmed that a third-party vendor it uses for employee records has been breached after a "cyber extortion group" said they…
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,…
Finance Leaders Are Shopping for a CAS Partner, and They Brought a List
Cash flow, automation, fraud protection. Your firm can deliver all three. Finance leaders would like some help with the accounting. Not a little help, either. BILL asked 354 finance decision-makers…
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…
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Just checking in to make sure you understand why working from home hurts collaboration, but outsourcing your entire department overseas, with time-zone gaps of 8 to 12 hrs, apparently doesn’t.
@Reginal81004886 @SamVale29 @grok We just let our CPA go after having a Grok bot for a week. It still answers to me but it will get me all the way through tax filing. Just need a paid preparer to sign off.
Deloitte Guy’s Love Life Has Become a Federal Matter
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…
Finance Leaders Are Shopping for a CAS Partner, and They Brought a List
Cash flow, automation, fraud protection. Your firm can deliver all three. Finance leaders would like some help with the accounting. Not a little help, either. BILL asked 354 finance decision-makers…
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,…
Some KPMGers Got Voluntold to Work Overnight Processing PPP Loan Applications
KPMG staffers who have some idle time on their hands won’t for much longer. This […]
(CONFIRMED) Rumor Mill: It May Have Been a Black Tuesday At Two Top 40 Accounting Firms
[Updated with additional information.] We got a couple of tips late on Tuesday night about […]
Here’s What We Know About PwC’s Summer Internship Situation
Last week we learned that PwC was taking its summer internships digital, much to the […]
Pay Cut Watch: Did Andersen Lay the Smack Down On Its Employees?
[Updated with additional information.] According to a post on Reddit on Tuesday, Andersen is another […]
Layoff Watch ’20: It Has Been a Terrible Tuesday For Some Folks at Armanino
[Updated with additional information.] Ugh, the hits just keep on coming. We received two tips […]
Pay Cut Watch: Apparently Everyone Is Feeling the Pain at Carr, Riggs & Ingram
[Updated with additional information.] Two sources have confirmed this evening what was posted on Fishbowl […]
Ex-EY CEO Mark Weinberger Joined His Gazillionth Board of Directors
OK, I might have gotten a little carried away with the title of this post, […]
Congrats to EY and Deloitte For Making … the Vault Banking 50?
The other night I was bored to tears while my wife and my 13-year-old daughter […]
PwC Australia Staffers Looking at Pay Cuts of Up to 40%
Another day, another big accounting firm slashing staff salaries during the COVID-19 pandemic. This time […]
Layoff Watch ’20: Berdon Let Go of 15 People, Postpones Partner Distributions
Another top 50 accounting firm based in New York City has laid off employees during […]
Grant Thornton Reducing Partner Draws By 25% For the Rest of FY 2020
[Updated with message from CEO Brad Preber to Grant Thornton staff.] Yesterday evening as I […]