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- Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Insists Candidates Enjoy Their AI Avatar; Guy at Deloitte’s Grandma Has Something She Can Put on the Fridge | 6.29.26
- Friday Footnotes: Amateur Forensic Accounting Not Appreciated By Local Parks Department; KPMG Getting Dogged | 6.26.26
- Top 20 Firm Eide Bailly Gets on the Private Equity Train
In New AI Guidelines, IRS Politely Suggests You Not Make Up Sources Like Deloitte Did
The IRS sent out a bulletin yesterday and we're going to write about it because for once it's not about tedious tax stuff that our audience doesn't have the patience…
The Big 4 Model Might Be Cooked
For nearly 17 years now, this website you're reading has been meticulously documenting the accounting profession, Big 4 in particular and often through the lens of younger staff coming through…
Layoff Watch ’26: EY Trims Some Newbies in Audit
Seeing multiple posts about audit Staff 1s getting let go from EY this week, it's unclear how many are affected and if other service lines should brace for impact as…
Deloitte Made the Creepy Digital Librarian From The Time Machine But For Golf
Have you seen the 2002 movie The Time Machine? If you haven't then the reference in the headline isn't going to make a lick of sense. Lucky for you YouTube…
KPMG Redefines Excellence in the Age of AI By Using AI to Pump Out Dubious Citations in This Now-Removed Report
GPTZero, the folks who brought you this glorious takedown of an EY Canada report stuffed with completely made up sources, are back at it again and this time they've caught…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Insists Candidates Enjoy Their AI Avatar; Guy at Deloitte’s Grandma Has Something She Can Put on the Fridge | 6.29.26
Hey you. Got a little assortment of news here for you. In this news briefThe Accounting Job Market Is...Great?EY's AI Avatar Gets Glazed16-Year-Old Accountant Gets National PraiseSometimes Disciplinary Matters Work…
Friday Footnotes: Amateur Forensic Accounting Not Appreciated By Local Parks Department; KPMG Getting Dogged | 6.26.26
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…
Top 20 Firm Eide Bailly Gets on the Private Equity Train
The private equity train may have slowed a bit in accounting but it's still choo-chooing along with another big deal coming on the heels of Crowe's $3 billion deal with…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Gave Us a Reason to Mention GTA 6; The Bad KPMG Anecdotes Are Adding Up | 6.22.26
Hey, here we are again at Monday. Guess we should get to it. In this news briefA Less Thrilling Transfer Pricing StoryThe Ghost of Tax Preparer Fraud PastWho Doesn't Want…
Friday Footnotes: Deloitte UK Asks Nearly 200 Auditors to Please F Off; AI Chatbots Favored Over Actual Accountants | 6.19.26
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…
In New AI Guidelines, IRS Politely Suggests You Not Make Up Sources Like Deloitte Did
The IRS sent out a bulletin yesterday and we're going to write about it because for once it's not about tedious tax stuff that our audience doesn't have the patience…
Deloitte Made the Creepy Digital Librarian From The Time Machine But For Golf
Have you seen the 2002 movie The Time Machine? If you haven't then the reference in the headline isn't going to make a lick of sense. Lucky for you YouTube…
KPMG Redefines Excellence in the Age of AI By Using AI to Pump Out Dubious Citations in This Now-Removed Report
GPTZero, the folks who brought you this glorious takedown of an EY Canada report stuffed with completely made up sources, are back at it again and this time they've caught…
KPMGers Are Maliciously Complying With The Firm’s AI Usage Requirements By Generating Fluff
On May 4, Business Insider published an article about KPMG's new AI dashboard. They've been publishing several articles in recent weeks about KPMG's AI initiatives actually, like the tax simulation…
Starbucks Kills Off Its Automated Counting AI Tool After Just 9 Months Because It Sucked at Counting Beans
While people outside of the accounting profession continue to smugly insist that accountants will be out of work in 12 months 18 months two years five years any day now…
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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- The Accounting Job Market Is…Great?
- EY’s AI Avatar Gets Glazed
- When Fate Decides You’re Not Gonna Be an Accountant Anymore
- Big 4 Still Taking a Beating Down Under
- PwC Needs New Signs
- Congrats on the Promotion, Mike
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…
Accounting News Roundup: Audit-only Firms; Budget Deficits; CohnReznick Quits Longfin | 04.10.18
How Did the Big Four Auditors Get $17 Billion in Revenue Growth? Not From Auditing […]
What Does GT Pay Rickie Fowler?
GT signed up Rickie Fowler to wear their logo and represent them. What do they […]
Accounting News Roundup: Bigger Big 4 Fines; Aggressive Tax Advice; ‘The Accountant’ Rentals | 04.09.18
Accounting watchdog to bite harder with 10 million pound fines [Reuters] The U.K.’s Financial Reporting […]
Applying in multiple Big 4 locations at once?
I will soon be applying to the Big 4 as an experienced hire. I have […]
Hear How Malaysian Money Illegally Financed a Hollywood Movie at the ACFE Global Fraud Conference
Clare Rewcastle Brown was in Malaysia investigating deforestation when she uncovered a corruption scandal that […]
Accounting News Roundup: Will the Big 4 Get Pulled Into the Trade War? | 04.06.18
Trump Veers From Tax Script to Blast Democrats on Immigration [NYT] Vindictive Stay Puft Marshmallow […]
PwC Faces Damages That Range From ‘Bad’ to ‘Worse’ But Probably Far Short of ‘Catastrophic’ for Colonial Bank Failure
Francine McKenna reports on MarketWatch that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. stands to collect a […]
Suspect Someone of Fraud? Give Them a Promotion
The trick to fraud is maintaining control. If you’re siphoning company funds into a bank […]
Accounting News Roundup: Managing Robots; Glass Lewis Knocks KPMG; ‘Crack and Pack’ | 04.05.18
Get Ready for an Exciting Career as a Data Hygienist [Bloomberg] Justin Fox writes about […]
Man Accused of Using Federal Funds to Purchase Plane, Guns, Porn Gonna Keep His Job Because Tax Season
Anyone who’s gone through a single busy season will tell you that there’s no messing […]
More Than 30 Years After Its Debut, Many Controllers Still Head Over Heels for Excel
When Microsoft Corp. released its spreadsheet program, Excel for Windows (Excel 2.0), in late 1987, […]