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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…
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…
Friday Footnotes: OpenAI CFO Says Don’t Sweat Token Costs; Seems Everyone and Their Manager Is Polishing Up Resumes | 7.17.26
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…
Bonus Watch ’26: No Bonuses at BDO?
Fresh from the tipline, a tipster informs us there will be no bonuses at BDO this year. They wrote: No bonuses for anyone, comp adjustments normally effective 8/1 will be…
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…
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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Via @business: Baker Tilly Eyes $3 Billion in Debt to Replace Private Credit
Netflix looking for local NJ talent to fill production accountant need
According to little birdies inside the firm, BDOers were told yesterday that there will be no bonuses this year and promotion raises are delayed until November.
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: You *Can* Afford to Change Jobs; Bad Bank Confirmations; Price Sells Was Not Meant to Be | 04.10.15
General Electric to Sell Bulk of Its Finance Unit [DealBook]They're getting started by selling $23 […]
Offer a range in salary negotiations
If you wring your hands when an interviewer asks, "What are your salary expectations?" a […]
PwC Disappointed That Former Partners Going to Jail for Satyam Fraud
An addendum to the Bloomberg article on the Satyam executives' sentencing we linked to earlier: […]
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Accounting News Roundup: Satyam Founder Sentenced to Prison; Losing Lotto Tickets; Deloitte Prepares Companies for Crisis | 04.09.15
Satyam Founder Gets 7 Years for India’s Biggest Corporate Fraud [Bloomberg]Ramalinga Raju, his brother B. Rama […]
Mid-tier Audit to B4 TS
Hello, I am a staff at a mid-teir firm in the audit practice. I am […]
Accountant’s Jail Sentence Conveniently Allows for Sunday Night Television
An accountant in Syracuse was sentenced to 16 weekends in jail and 5 years of […]
Thoughts on new direction
A little about me I graduated with my MSA in 2011 and started working with […]
Busy Season Zen: Ten Hours of Soothing Spring Showers
April showers bring May flowers, the saying goes. Of course, it also can bring tornadoes […]
Reminder: Don’t Work at the IRS for Glamour, Good Cocktail Party Chatter
As we've discussed, if you want to dabble in public service or embrace chaos like […]
Accounting News Roundup: Disclosing Carried Interest; Strange Job Titles Are Bad; Stop Checking Email | 04.08.15
Carried Interest Should Be Disclosed on Tax Forms, and to Private Equity Investors [DealBook]Among other […]