Memo to work martyrs: Long hours make you less productive [CNBC]A study from Stanford University […]
Hackers Have Apparently Stolen a Whole Lot of PwC Homework
Oh no, hackers have swiped oodles of slides! PwC has confirmed that a third-party vendor it uses for employee records has been breached after a "cyber extortion group" said they…
PwC Ekes Past EY With $60.2 Billion in Reported Global Revenue
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
...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
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
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…
CBIZ Shareholders Are Cool With the Grant Thornton Merger, the Deal is a Go
While everyone has been distracted by Anthropic's S1, another filing slipped past: a Form 8-K filed by CBIZ on October 27. If you didn't know that Viking ParentCo, Inc. and…
Looks Like Accounting’s Private Equity Feeding Frenzy Is Chilling Out Into a Nibble
According to CPA Trendlines' CPA PE Deal Tracker, which we must say is absolutely amazing, private equity firms are no longer gobbling up accounting firms like they were. Deal volume…
Hackers Have Apparently Stolen a Whole Lot of PwC Homework
Oh no, hackers have swiped oodles of slides! PwC has confirmed that a third-party vendor it uses for employee records has been breached after a "cyber extortion group" said they…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Deloitte In Trouble Again For AI Slop Report; Don’t Embezzle to Tip Livestream Girls | 10.26.26
Good morning, capital markets servants. Some news, if you please. In this news briefIt's Good to Be the BossOh Hey, KPMG Got a #1Deloitte Struggles With MathTax Court Isn't InfallibleCitizen…
Friday Footnotes: Internal Auditors Are All In on AI; KPMG Australia Takes a Few More Ls | 10.23.26
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…
Hackers Have Apparently Stolen a Whole Lot of PwC Homework
Oh no, hackers have swiped oodles of slides! PwC has confirmed that a third-party vendor it uses for employee records has been breached after a "cyber extortion group" said they…
Bill Gates Predicts AI Will Be Taking Clients’ Most Tedious Questions 24/7 Within a Few Years
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
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
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
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,…
Finance Leaders Are Shopping for a CAS Partner, and They Brought a List
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
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
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
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
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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Looks Like Accounting’s Private Equity Feeding Frenzy Is Chilling Out Into a Nibble
I'm not sure what it means but I've met my 3rd bartender this year who left accounting to bartend.
Great advice from the @AICPA 2026 Tax Ethics Update:
Have an engagement letter & STAY INSIDE IT!
Scope creep can put liabilities on you and your firm.
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…
Finance Leaders Are Shopping for a CAS Partner, and They Brought a List
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
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
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,…
Friday Footnotes: Gay Marriage Wins; How Uber Conquers; Rand Paul vs. IRS | 06.26.15
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Punit Renjen Wants Deloitte to be the ‘Auditor’s Auditor’ Whatever That Means
In an interview, soon-to-be Deloitte Global CEO Punit Renjen said, "Our goal is not to […]
Accounting News Roundup: More on Partner Naming Redux; The Problem with Competition on Teams; Get Over Those Post-Vacation Blues | 06.26.15
Sifting the Fly Shit Out of the Pepper – The PCAOB Comes Back on Partner […]
EY Employee Has Eaten So Many Hours, He’s Gone on Hunger Strike
We have received a tip from an EY employee who's in a situation many of […]
LinkedIn Faux Pas
I was recently chatting with an old client contact and the discussion turned to the […]
What is the heirarchy at Crowe Horwath for NFP tax specialty group?
Anyone know what the heirarchy is at Crowe Horwath in their Not-For-Profit tax group? Specifically, […]
Former Deloitte CEO Will Squeeze in Pfizer Board Meetings in Addition to All That Public Service
Former Deloitte CEO Joe Echevarria will join Pfizer's board of directors effective immediately, according to […]
The Accounting Profession’s Murky Future
The accounting profession is in a weird place. Maybe that’s too polite; the profession is […]
Accounting News Roundup: Global Tax Avoidance; Deloitte Creeping Up on I-Banking; You Don’t Need a Promotion | 06.25.15
Companies Avoid Paying $200 Billion in Tax [WSJ]The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development […]
Soon-to-be IT Auditor unsure of future
Hey everybody, I am starting at Deloitte (midwest region) in August as an IT Auditor […]
Bonus Watch: Deloitte Employees Ineligble for Bonuses
Everyone's a winner! At least that's the sense we get reading this message from Deloitte […]