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- Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Some Messy Stuff Coming Out From Under KPMG’s Rug; Baby Consultants Expected to Show Their Faces | 8.31.26
- Friday Footnotes: Salaries Are Slipping at the Staff Level; PwC International Not Off the Hook in Evergrande Lawsuit | 8.28.26
- Deloitte’s DEI Goals Ended Up Slightly More Expensive Than Anticipated
Big 4 Climate Activism Has a Pretty Convenient Revenue Stream, Say 16 State AGs in Tedious Letter to Firms
The attorneys general of 16 states have written a long strongly worded letter to Big 4 firms (and CC'd the SEC) warning them that the firms' climate commitments and willingness…
EY Is Rolling Out Nebulous New Rewards
After EY's 2026 compensation and promotions left more than a few EYers feeling shafted, the firm is reaching into its pockets in what it's calling "a bold shift in how…
Deloitte’s DEI Goals Ended Up Slightly More Expensive Than Anticipated
Yesterday the Department of Justice announced a False Claims Act resolution with Deloitte, who have agreed to pay the United States $21.5 million to resolve allegations that they violated the…
After Consulting Takes a Double-Digit Revenue Hit, KPMG Australia Cuts Workforce By 5 Percent
As of the end of July, the rumor was that KPMG Australia would be letting go of as many as 1,000 people and a few dozen partners as it cleans…
Compensation Watch ’26: EY Raises and Promotions Feel Marginally Less Bad This Year
Promotion time has rolled around at EY and that means users gathered at r/Big4 to share their numbers. There are, as of press time, 637 comments (we let it sit…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Some Messy Stuff Coming Out From Under KPMG’s Rug; Baby Consultants Expected to Show Their Faces | 8.31.26
Yo. Got a few things for you this morning. In this news briefThat's Some Real Dirty DirtWell, There's the Reputational Damage Too Ya KnowChilly Days For Consulting AheadEY Thinks WFH…
Friday Footnotes: Salaries Are Slipping at the Staff Level; PwC International Not Off the Hook in Evergrande Lawsuit | 8.28.26
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’s DEI Goals Ended Up Slightly More Expensive Than Anticipated
Yesterday the Department of Justice announced a False Claims Act resolution with Deloitte, who have agreed to pay the United States $21.5 million to resolve allegations that they violated the…
India’s Still Talking About Making Their Own Consulting Firms to Compete With Big 4
It's been almost ten years since prime minister Narendra Modi first floated the idea of India homebrewing their own consulting firms to compete on the global stage against the real…
After Consulting Takes a Double-Digit Revenue Hit, KPMG Australia Cuts Workforce By 5 Percent
As of the end of July, the rumor was that KPMG Australia would be letting go of as many as 1,000 people and a few dozen partners as it cleans…
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,…
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…
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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Deloitte’s DEI Goals Ended Up Slightly More Expensive Than Anticipated
Weekend Discussion: Intern Offers Are Down But Also Up
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…
Featured Job of the Week: Tax Manager with Edwards, Largay Mihaylo & Co in Phoenix, Ariz.
Our featured job this week is a Tax Manager with Edwards, Largay Mihaylo & Co in […]
Accounting News Roundup: KPMG’s Missing Workpapers and a Hero Goalie | 03.30.18
KPMG hit by Hong Kong High Court in $400 million China Medical fraud [Reuters] KPMG’s […]
Inflation adjustment
So I work for Deloitte in Audit, in Mclean, VA. The starting salary of a […]
Busy Season Triggers Survivor Guilt in CPAs Working in Industry
Busy season. It’s the hardest time of year for me as a CPA. But I […]
On Chivalry and Emotional Restraint in Public Accounting
When I started in public accounting we did a Skittle icebreaker on the first day […]
Opening Day Quandry–Help Me Out
It is Opening Day. The Cubs open in Miami. My client is Chicago based and […]
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Accounting News Roundup: Grant Thornton Done Auditing Big U.K. Business | 03.29.18
Grant Thornton exits audit market for big UK companies [FT] GT audits five FTSE 350 […]
Controllers Say AI and Blockchain on the Cusp of Transforming SOX Compliance
When asked whether artificial intelligence and blockchain will play a role in accounting and finance […]
Exposure Drafts: The One Way Accounting Firms Are Succeeding at Diversity
Exposure Drafts appears every other Wednesday. Send your accounting cartoon ideas and diversity quotas to […]
Accounting News Roundup: ‘One of the worst income statements I’ve ever seen’ | 03.28.18
Tesla is just months from a total collapse, says hedge-fund manager [MW] John Thompson of […]
Statoil CFO Happy With His Robots; Later, Humans
Last fall, we mentioned Roberta, the newest and most efficient member of Statoil’s treasury department. […]