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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
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EY Consultant Discovers One Weird Trick to Never Work in Banking Again, Or Big 4 For That Matter
Have you ever been tempted to poke around a bit too hard in material that you've been given access to as part of your fancy Big 4 job? Allegedly, 21-year-old…
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…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Lets the PCAOB Know They’re in Some Trouble; Accenture Experiences an “Isolated Matter” | 7.13.26
Good morning, capital markets servants. Did anyone else get their Unown platinum medal over the weekend? Exciting stuff (for nerds)! But we're here to talk about accounting news, not Pokemon.…
Friday Footnotes: PwC Lays Off in Audit, KPMG Makes Back Office Cuts; AI Company Wants Guidance From the PCAOB | 7.10.26
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…
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…
KPMG Redefines Excellence in the Age of AI By Using AI to Pump Out Dubious Citations in This Now-Removed Report
GPTZero, the folks who brought you this glorious takedown of an EY Canada report stuffed with completely made up sources, are back at it again and this time they've caught…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | October 16, 2025
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Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | October 2, 2025
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Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | September 25, 2025
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Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | September 18, 2025
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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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Friendly Reminder Not to Work Yourself to Death For This Profession
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Accounting Firm Abruptly Nopes Out of Tax Season Early (UPDATE)
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This Deloitte Office Has Eliminated Trash Cans at Desks to Make Staff Get Up Off Their Asses
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The IRS Decided to Troll Tax Pros For 10/15
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Top Remote Accounting Freelancers: February 3, 2024
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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
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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…
New Study Validates Old Accountant Joke
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Parkinson’s Law of Accounting
Parkinson’s law states, “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” […]
Accounting News Roundup: Google’s Alphabet; Auditor Tenure; Earnings Management as a Career Move | 08.11.15
Google Announces Plans for New Operating Structure [GoogleIR]Google is gonna be like GE or Berkshire […]
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Last week, I gave a shout-out to the people who write for this here fine […]
Apparently PwC Is Not Its (Big) Brothers (Big Sisters) Keeper
Recently, the Department of Justice narced out PwC to the AICPA’s Professional Ethics Division for […]
Accounting News Roundup: PwC Gives Thumbs-Up to Noble’s Accounting | 08.10.15
PwC says Noble Group's accounting practices comply with rules [Reuters]Incredible! An "indepedent" review of a […]
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I just completed my internship at "building a better working world" (sic.) and realized that […]
Friday Footnotes: Accounting for Derivatives; Grant Thornton’s People People; Dealing with Downtime | 08.07.15
Have a great weekend, capital market servants. Send us tips, comp info and epic farewell […]
Accountant Suffers Bumpy Landing at Sentencing
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Auditors to Get Auditier
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