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EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client
Just as EY was moving on from the 2023 MOVEit data breach in which more than 30,000 Bank of America customers may have had their personal information compromised, a fresh…
Note to PwC Partners: Don’t Tell Reporters You Plan to Divorce Your Wife to Hide Assets After an Audit Scandal
Welp there goes at least one PwC partner's plan to divorce his spouse to protect assets from Evergrande fallout. As covered by Bloomberg in June (and included in our 6.15.26…
Layoff Watch ’26: Big Cuts Are Coming at KPMG Australia
This just in from Financial Review: KPMG is preparing to cut hundreds of jobs and reduce partner pay by as much as 20 per cent, as the fallout from the…
Turns Out Firms Don’t Like It When You Offshore Yourself
A man fired from PwC Ireland for working in India when he was supposed to be in Dublin has lost his unfair dismissal case before the Workplace Relations Commission, a…
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…
Friday Footnotes: Regulators Turn Their Eye to Offshoring; Auditors Ask “Is It Incompetence or Is It Fraud?” | 7.24.26
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…
EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client
Just as EY was moving on from the 2023 MOVEit data breach in which more than 30,000 Bank of America customers may have had their personal information compromised, a fresh…
Grant Thornton Wants to Get Back on the Audit A Team
As Financial Times originally reported and we covered in early 2024, Grant Thornton UK got kicked off the esteemed top tier of the Financial Reporting Council's audit inspection targets in…
Treasury Says Cool It on the 351 Conversions
We're going to be entirely honest here, the strategies described in the Bloomberg article excerpted below are far beyond the pay grade of anyone around here but since some of…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Baker Tilly Looking at Debt Markets; PwC Partners to Take Home More Than a Mil | 7.20.26
Good morning, capital markets servants. I hope you like private equity because that topic makes up the bulk of this week's stories. I'm kinda at the whim of whatever's fresh…
EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client
Just as EY was moving on from the 2023 MOVEit data breach in which more than 30,000 Bank of America customers may have had their personal information compromised, a fresh…
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…
Beware This Hot New Scam: LinkedIn Job Hunt Takes a Sharp Detour Into Attempted Bank Emptying
Saw this post on r/accounting and while I know some of you feel a certain type of way about using Reddit for "content" it felt important to pass along 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…
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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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: EY’s Tax Avoiding Clients; AICPA on Auditing; PwC Picks Up Toshiba | 01.28.16
Ernst & Young: Accountancy giant advises Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon on tax affairs [Independent]Most […]
Questions on Career Change
Question regarding a career change: I'm in my mid-thirties and considering a career change. I've […]
Crowe Horwath Two Steps Closer to Pure Anarchy
Not be outdone by their crosstown1 rivals, Crowe Horwath announced earlier this week that not only can their employees wear whatever they want, they can work wherever they want, too (subject to approval of course):
White Collar Fraud Watch: a Dancing CFO, a Spanish Princess and a Vatican Accountant
An embezzling CFO, a tax-evading princess, and a money-laundering Vatican accountant walk into a bar. Oh, sorry, I meant a court room, to answer for their respective white collar crimes. This may sound like another GC witticism -– we think we’re hilarious over here -– but this time, I didn’t make anything up. As it turns out, these individuals are an actual bunch of white collar scofflaws. True story.
Accounting News Roundup: AICPA Doing Stuff; Snoping IRS Phishing Scams; Are You Too Gritty? | 01.27.16
AICPA Takes on IRS and Expands Internationally [AT]In a speech given yesterday, AICPA president, CEO […]
Enjoy This Mesmerizing Video of Tim Gearty
This video is several years old, but I hadn't seen it before today and I'll […]
How Will Your Team Air Its Grievances This Busy Season?
If you are leading a team this busy season, it's likely that a conflict or […]
Accounting News Roundup: Inversions Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop; SCOTUS Won’t Hear PwC Case; Lots and Lots of Leases | 01.26.16
Tyco Merger Will Shift Johnson Controls’ Tax Liability Overseas [NYT]Treasury tried to slow the pace […]
PwC Trying New Gimmick for the Oscars
In case you hadn't heard, the nominees for this year's Academy Awards in the acting […]
You’ll Like This: A Conversation With Facebook Controller Matt Banks
Earlier this month we crowdsourced some questions from you for our interview with Facebook Controller, […]
Accounting News Roundup: Deloitte CEO Email Still Demotivating; PwC Sponsors Some Content; Auditors Who’ve Gone to Pot | 01.25.16
Punit Renjen: Discovering the thinking behind Deloitte chief's demotivating new year email [Independent]If you haven't […]