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View AllEven PwC Is Hyping Up GTA VI Now
- Going Concern News Desk
- November 5, 2026
With 14 days to go until the release of the most anticipated game of this decade, PwC has pushed out a bit of thought leadership-slash-economic analysis titled "Vice City, everywhere:…
Deloitte Guy’s Love Life Has Become a Federal Matter
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 30, 2026
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
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 27, 2026
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
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 20, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- October 14, 2026
...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…
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View AllEven PwC Is Hyping Up GTA VI Now
- Going Concern News Desk
- November 5, 2026
With 14 days to go until the release of the most anticipated game of this decade, PwC has pushed out a bit of thought leadership-slash-economic analysis titled "Vice City, everywhere:…
Turns Out Offshoring Isn’t a Cheap Forever Solution to Talent Problems
- Going Concern News Desk
- November 3, 2026
Well we knew this would happen eventually. An article published today in Accountants Daily is all about how small firms over in Australia are struggling to hire talent. Now, if…
CBIZ Shareholders Are Cool With the Grant Thornton Merger, the Deal is a Go (UPDATE)
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- November 3, 2026
Ed. note: This article was originally published on October 29, 2026. On November 2, 2026, both CBIZ and Grant Thornton announced the transaction had completed. We didn't think this deserved…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Boss Hates Work From Home; KPMG Catches Some Heat For Personnel Plans | 11.2.26
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- November 2, 2026
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
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 30, 2026
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…
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View AllThe Robots Want Your Emails, and the AICPA Has Concerns
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- November 4, 2026
Last month a pitch arrived in our editor inbox, the title of which was "Going Concern, meet the startup helping accounting firms turn old Slacks and emails into free money."…
Hackers Have Apparently Stolen a Whole Lot of PwC Homework
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 27, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- September 30, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- September 24, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- September 16, 2026
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…
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View AllThe Robots Want Your Emails, and the AICPA Has Concerns
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- November 4, 2026
Last month a pitch arrived in our editor inbox, the title of which was "Going Concern, meet the startup helping accounting firms turn old Slacks and emails into free money."…
Finance Leaders Are Shopping for a CAS Partner, and They Brought a List
- Going Concern
- October 15, 2026
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
- Going Concern
- September 15, 2026
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
- Going Concern News Desk
- September 10, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- September 9, 2026
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…
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The Robots Want Your Emails, and the AICPA Has Concerns
A meticulously thorough read on the TaxDome situation:
TaxDome changed its pricing, and the pitchforks came out. But the bill isn’t the only thing worth reading. The updated data terms deserve attention, too. I ran the numbers and read the fine print.
https://www.joshandtaxes.com/p/taxdome-new-pricing-ai-data-terms
Turns Out Offshoring Isn’t a Cheap Forever Solution to Talent Problems
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View AllHere Are Tax and Audit Salaries at Top 25, Top 300, and Regional Firms
- Going Concern News Desk
- April 11, 2025
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- March 26, 2025
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)
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- March 20, 2025
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
- Going Concern News Desk
- November 7, 2024
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
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 15, 2024
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…
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View AllFinance Leaders Are Shopping for a CAS Partner, and They Brought a List
- Going Concern
- October 15, 2026
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
- Going Concern
- September 15, 2026
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
- Liz Branch
- 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
- GoingConcern
- October 5, 2023
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,…
Here’s Your Open Thread for EY Compensation Discussions (2017)
- Caleb Newquist
- August 15, 2017
Okay, okay. I’m sure some people inside the House of Black and Yellow need a […]
Accounting News Roundup: Most CEOs Sticking With Trump and Cheap Fonts | 08.15.17
- Caleb Newquist
- August 15, 2017
CEOs and Trump Yesterday, I wrote about Mark Weinberger, EY’s Global CEO, and that he […]
Grant Thornton Admits 39 New Partners and Principals
- Caleb Newquist
- August 14, 2017
Who are the new Grant Thornton partners? Glad you asked. The firm announced them earlier […]
Tell EY’s Mark Weinberger To Quit President Trump’s Business Advisory Council
- Caleb Newquist
- August 14, 2017
I’m overstating the obvious here, but there’s something disturbing when the President of the United […]
Accounting News Roundup: Recruiting on Snapchat and Screwed-up Estimated Payments | 08.14.17
- Caleb Newquist
- August 14, 2017
You’re not missing anything. Recruiting trends Should you be recruiting on Snapchat? I have no […]
Senior Accountant to Manager in Industry
- Corporateaccountingguy
- August 13, 2017
Hi All, I graduated from a top 10 accounting program with BBA/Macc, did the typical […]
The PCAOB Could Look Very Different, Very Soon
- Caleb Newquist
- August 11, 2017
Get a good look, people. Anyone interested in becoming a PCAOB member? It sounds like […]
Accountingfly Featured Job of the Week: Estate & Trust Tax Staff Accountant with Kaufman Rossin
- Accountingfly
- August 11, 2017
Accountingfly’s featured job this week is an Estate & Trust Tax Staff Accountant with Kaufman Rossin in Boca […]
Accounting News Roundup: Taxes, *Very* Different Career Paths, and Lewd Behavior | 08.11.17
- Caleb Newquist
- August 11, 2017
Taxes Consummate bullshit artist and current POTUS Donald J. Trump repeated one of his favorite […]
Want to Find and Keep Quality Accounting Talent? Pay Them More, Already
- Caleb Newquist
- August 10, 2017
Smiles and handshakes will ensue. The AICPA’s mega report on the supply of accounting graduates […]
Bored CPA and JD/LLM
- 224bda
- August 10, 2017
New to this site but I’m at a firm just outside of the Big 4 […]
