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Everything is Shrinkflating These Days, Even the Number of Elijah Watt Sells Award Winners
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Hope that accountant billed double for having to deal with this on a weekend
Big glass of cold water thrown in my face.
Found an error in our financial projections late last night. Accountant was offline. Asked Claude to model the impact on revenue, cash, and EBITDA.
It gave me a catastrophic answer. And was so damn confident about it.
I legit spiraled
Leave it to accountants to have a conference on a weekend to talk about working smarter, not harder.
Via @TexasTribune: Texas now requires cities to do an audit before raising property taxes. Some small towns can’t afford it.
"KPMG’s UK arm has told staff that they can no longer finish early on Fridays over the summer, in a reversal of a Covid-era policy, according to a spokesperson."
Here Are Tax and Audit Salaries at Top 25, Top 300, and Regional Firms
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Accounting Firm Abruptly Nopes Out of Tax Season Early (UPDATE)
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Don’t Grow Your Accounting Firm Out of Business! Break Up With These Unscalable Practices Now
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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: One EYer Was Very Determined to Cheat; How Can You Not Know You Don’t Get Overtime? | 3.23.26
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Friday Footnotes: PwC CEO Issues a Stern Threat to Luddite Partners; Compliance Startup Gets Slaughtered on Substack | 3.20.26
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Oh So We’re Actually Going to Get Rid of Quarterly Reporting After All Huh
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KPMG Picked an Aussie to Rule Over the Global Empire [UPDATED]
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Deloitte Runs a Photo Competition??
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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Someone Finally Realized We Need to Groom Potential Partners; PwC’s 9th Straight Year of Not Screwing Up the Oscars | 3.16.26
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Friday Footnotes: PwC Aims to Hire Tons of Non-Accounting Talent Because Reasons; War or Not, Still Gotta Bill Those Hours | 3.13.26
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Ex-Accounting Firm Employee Arrested For Allegedly Inflating Her Hours
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The 2026 IRS Dirty Dozen: Even Tax Scamming Is Being Automated Now
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