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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…
News
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.
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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,…
KPMG UK Partners Discover Layoffs Are the Secret to Record Payouts
- Going Concern News Desk
- January 29, 2025
Going Concern is often accused of sensationalizing in headlines and it’s a completely valid criticism […]
Let’s Give KPMG a Golf Clap For Finally Figuring Out How to Audit Their Way Out of a Paper Bag
- Going Concern News Desk
- January 28, 2025
On January 23 Bloomberg Tax published a surprising headline: “KPMG Slated to Post Best Audit […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Desperate City Will Pay a Firm to Stay Downtown; Fake PwC Client Busted | 1.27.25
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- January 27, 2025
Good morning, capital markets servants. Another week is upon us, let’s do this. The city […]
Friday Footnotes: Sage AI Has a “Minor” Issue Sharing Customer Data; KPMG Bigly Improves Audit Quality; Baker Tilly, Not Big 4 | 1.24.25
- Going Concern News Desk
- January 24, 2025
Reminder to take our 2025 Predictions for the Accounting Profession survey, it’s quick we promise. Footnotes […]
CohnReznick is Supposedly Close to a Private Equity Deal
- Going Concern News Desk
- January 24, 2025
Another one bites the dust. In October, PE Hub reported that CohnReznick (IPA Top 100 […]
What Happens to DEI at the Big Firms Now?
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- January 24, 2025
In July 2023, a nonprofit group called America First Legal — founded by Trump senior […]
ESOP Accounting Firm CEO Talks Some Shit About PE-Backed Firms
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- January 23, 2025
Last year the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) put together a […]
Top Remote Accountants of the Week | January 23, 2025
- Liz Branch
- January 23, 2025
Are you having trouble finding remote accountants, CAS experts, auditors, or tax professionals for your […]
The IRS Is Rescinding Job Offers (UPDATE)
- Going Concern News Desk
- January 22, 2025
On Monday, President Trump signed an executive order freezing federal hiring for federal civilian positions […]
Confidential to Clients: Don’t Trust a CPA With a Word Cloud on His Website in 2025
- Going Concern News Desk
- January 22, 2025
The US Attorney’s Office of Middle District of Tennessee put out this press release the […]
BDO Gets Accused of Inflating Revenue Ahead of the ESOP Again, This Time in a Class Action Lawsuit
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- January 21, 2025
We knew it was only a matter of time before someone filed a class action […]
