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Scandal-Embattled KPMG Australia Hits Up the Global Body to Borrow a Few Bucks
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Deloitte Saw Another Year of Single-Digit Growth, a Respectable $74.5 Billion in Revenue
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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
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Friday Footnotes: Accounting Education Could Use a Catch Up; Whistleblower Says IRS Leaked His Tax Records | 10.9.26
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The King’s Deloitte Got Hit With a £6 Million Fine and a Homework Assignment For Questionable Auditing
The Financial Reporting Council announced £6 million (nearly $8 million USD) in sanctions against Deloitte UK today and honestly, this client sounds like a mess. But messy clients are what…
Bill Gates Predicts AI Will Be Taking Clients’ Most Tedious Questions 24/7 Within a Few Years
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The AICPA Wants Tax Pros to Take a Hit From Its New AI Risk CART
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Deloitte Survey: A Lot of People Are Using Clandestine AI at Work
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Bill Gates Proposes a Tokens and Robots Tax
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Firms (and Some Guy Obsessed With China) Have Weighed in on the PCAOB Turning an Eye to AI
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Finance Leaders Are Shopping for a CAS Partner, and They Brought a List
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Expense Management: Because Apparently Clients Will Pay You to Make Expense Reports Suck Less
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For Firms, Growth is Down But Profitability Is Up
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AICPA Pushes Back on IRS Suggesting CPAs Should Charge Less If They’re Using AI
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Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | October 16, 2025
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Curious where general sentiment is here, as I think a lot of folks are afraid of being AI-cancelled
For US tax pros, if you're using an AI assistant that doesn't train your prompts into the model (business plans)
Do you think a signed 7216 consent to disclosure is required?
Idk if this was a gap in my knowledge or is commonly unknown. They certainly never did it at any of the 3 firms I worked at.
A Market Discount adjustment in a 1099-B is supposed to be recategorized as interest income.
Did you know this/do you do this?
IRS Employees Looked at Celebrities’ Tax Records, Report Says
Here Are Tax and Audit Salaries at Top 25, Top 300, and Regional Firms
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Friendly Reminder Not to Work Yourself to Death For This Profession
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Accounting Firm Abruptly Nopes Out of Tax Season Early (UPDATE)
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This Deloitte Office Has Eliminated Trash Cans at Desks to Make Staff Get Up Off Their Asses
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The IRS Decided to Troll Tax Pros For 10/15
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Finance Leaders Are Shopping for a CAS Partner, and They Brought a List
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Expense Management: Because Apparently Clients Will Pay You to Make Expense Reports Suck Less
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Accountant In College Admissions Scandal Will Find Out In October When He’ll Get Admission to Prison
As expected, Steven Masera, the former accountant of the bogus nonprofit and college consulting company […]
Hiring Watch ’19: RSM Planning to Add to Its KC Headcount
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Accounting Fraud Watch: Autonomy Trial, Patisserie Valerie Arrests, Longfin CEO Charged
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The Lovefest For Ex-Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert Continues
Former Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert has been getting a lot of love lately. Last week, […]
Former Marks Paneth Partner Admits to Screwing Investors Out of $2 Million
Steven Henning, CPA, a former partner-in-charge of advisory services at New York City-based Marks Paneth, […]
Which KPMG Scandal Is Worse: PCAOB ‘Steal the Exam’ or CPE Training Exam Cheating?
Since Monday when the SEC announced it had fined KPMG $50 million for not one […]
No Auditor Swapping For International Olympic Committee
The IOC announced today that it will keep rolling with P. Dubs. The International Olympic […]
KPMG U.K. Doesn’t Really Care If You Don’t Like How It Handled Complaints Against Partner Accused of Bullying
We were so busy trying to wrap our heads around the $50 million fine the […]
Hiring Watch ’19: Grant Thornton U.K. Is Looking For Competent Auditors to Fill 300 Jobs
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Accountants Behaving Badly: Update on Ex-Wife Basher, Bank Fraud Guilty Plea, Sexual Assault
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Why Growing Companies Desperately Need People With Your Accounting Background
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