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- PwC Ekes Past EY With $60.2 Billion in Reported Global Revenue
- Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Deloitte Starts the Week With Layoffs; AI Agent Audits Are Here | 10.19.26
- Friday Footnotes: Career Ladder is Out, Career Playground Is In; AI Ranks as Leading Ethical Challenge Facing Accountants | 10.16.26
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View AllPwC 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…
EY Didn’t Do Too Bad Last Year
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 13, 2026
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…
The King’s Deloitte Got Hit With a £6 Million Fine and a Homework Assignment For Questionable Auditing
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 8, 2026
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…
Scandal-Embattled KPMG Australia Hits Up the Global Body to Borrow a Few Bucks
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 6, 2026
This information comes from Australian Financial Review so it's legit: KPMG Australia is seeking up to $100 million in emergency loans from the firm’s global network as well as a…
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View AllPwC 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…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Deloitte Starts the Week With Layoffs; AI Agent Audits Are Here | 10.19.26
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- October 19, 2026
Hey. 10/15 is behind us and we're officially a month out from GTA 6, life's good eh? Have a little news as a treat. In this news briefOh Goodie, More…
Friday Footnotes: Career Ladder is Out, Career Playground Is In; AI Ranks as Leading Ethical Challenge Facing Accountants | 10.16.26
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 16, 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…
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…
EY Didn’t Do Too Bad Last Year
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 13, 2026
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…
Technology
View AllBill 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…
Bill Gates Proposes a Tokens and Robots Tax
- Going Concern News Desk
- August 27, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- August 12, 2026
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…
Practice Management
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…
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…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | October 16, 2025
- Liz Branch
- 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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Now that tax season is over and you had a few days to recuperate, get on with firing those clients you know need to go. There will be plenty more to take their place.
The public will soon be able to view Tax Court motions remotely through the Tax Court’s electronic filing and case management system rather than having to file a records request or visit the courthouse.
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Quick Reads
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,…
Advice Needed on PwC IT Advisory Manager Salary (12+ years experience)
- braveheartdagger1
- July 24, 2017
Hello Everyone, I have 12+ years experience with a Master’s degree in Engineering as well. […]
Accounting News Roundup: Poker, Embarrassments at Work, and The Beatles’ Accountant | 07.24.17
- Caleb Newquist
- July 24, 2017
What are you doing with your accounting degree? Although it’s been said that “Poker’s an […]
Small public firm to industry
- lindrobe
- July 23, 2017
I have worked as a senior accountant in a small public firm for the past […]
Advice on full-time needed
- Freakinthespreadsheets
- July 23, 2017
Hey guys – looking for someone who’s been around Big 4 for some real honest […]
Florida Accountant Picks Up a Green Thumb in Retirement; Authorities Not Impressed
- Caleb Newquist
- July 21, 2017
For those of you hoping to retire one day, do you know how you’ll stay […]
Accounting News Roundup: Yearning for ’86 and ‘A conman, a thief and a liar’ | 07.21.17
- Caleb Newquist
- July 21, 2017
How’s tax reform coming along? Nothing gets proponents of tax reform sentimental quite like the […]
Ukraine Yanks PwC’s Bank Audit License
- Caleb Newquist
- July 20, 2017
From the Financial Times, the National Bank of Ukraine “announced it had pulled [PwC’s] domestic […]
CFOs Don’t Want You Wasting Time on CPE While Clocked-in
- Megan Lewczyk
- July 20, 2017
Summer is a great time to dust off the mental cobwebs and do some CPE. […]
Accountingfly Featured Job of the Week: Accounting Tax Manager with GPW CPAs
- Accountingfly
- July 20, 2017
Accountingfly’s featured job this week is an Accounting Tax Manager with GPW CPAs in San Diego, Calif. […]
Is this level of responsibility normal for a staff?
- BeepBoop24
- July 20, 2017
I currently am a staff in an IT audit position. I feel sometimes like I […]
Accounting News Roundup: Deloitte Scraps Its Diversity Groups | 07.20.17
- Caleb Newquist
- July 20, 2017
Deloitte I linked to this yesterday, but the news that Deloitte is scrapping its affinity […]
