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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
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…
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…
Congratulations to This Tiny 673-Person Town on Earning a Spot in Future Fraud Training Slides
Wow, we haven't seen crazy unauthorized city spending like this since Rita Crundwell, except instead of horses it's dogs and it's like 1/30th of the spending because Washington, OK doesn't…
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.…
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
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: Bill for Tougher SEC Penalties; Left Big 4, Regretting It; Making Small Talk | 07.13.15
Eurozone Leaders Reach Unanimous Agreement on Greece [WSJ]Europe will cough up $96 billion; all Greek […]
Left for money, but now want to go back to Big4
So I took your guys' advice at http://www.goingconcern.com/topic/open-items/best-raise-percentage-a2-s1 and took a low 100k job (cybersecurity at […]
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I am interning in technology advisory at EY and am confident of a FTO being […]
Best Route to Deal Advisory (Transactions)
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Friday Footnotes: Paternity Leave; The 1st AICPA President; Breaking Mediocrity | 07.10.15
Have a great weekend, double-entry do-gooders. Send us tips, stories and info you think we […]
IRS Phone Scam Mastermind Given 175 Months to Think About His Life Choices
If you or someone you know have been thinking about getting into the IRS Crank […]
DeAndre Jordan: A Slam Dunk Recruiting Case Study
Earlier this week, one of the wackiest free agency circuses in NBA history occurred. I […]
Accounting News Roundup: FASB Delays Revenue Recognition; SEC Has Its Own Idea for Audit Partner Naming; Taxing Carried Interest | 07.10.15
FASB Agrees to Delay New Revenue-Booking Rules By One Year [WSJ]Mark your calendars for 2018. […]
The Monthly Close: PwC Partners Drink the Blood of the Proletariat
Another month, another set of closing jokes. Here's what Greg Kyte & Co. covered for […]
Here’s Your Open Thread for McGladrey Compensation Discussions (2015)
Some restless Mickey G’s (soon-to-be RSM) employees have been tapping on our shoulders this week:
Accounting News Roundup: KPMG Snags Another HR Consulting Firm; Grant Thornton Takes a Slap on the Wrist; Gen-X CFOs | 07.09.15
U.S. Firms in For Long Ride in China [CFOJ]Companies aren't ready to write down their […]