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- Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Lets the PCAOB Know They’re in Some Trouble; Accenture Experiences an “Isolated Matter” | 7.13.26
- Friday Footnotes: PwC Lays Off in Audit, KPMG Makes Back Office Cuts; AI Company Wants Guidance From the PCAOB | 7.10.26
- Activist Investor Tells CBIZ They Need More Acquisitions in Their Life
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…
KPMG May Have Gotten Big 4 Into Big, Big Trouble in Australia
Just as everyone was starting to chill out a little about the PwC tax scandal in Australia, Deloitte up and scammed the government with an AI report and then KPMG…
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…
The Big 4 Model Might Be Cooked
For nearly 17 years now, this website you're reading has been meticulously documenting the accounting profession, Big 4 in particular and often through the lens of younger staff coming through…
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…
Activist Investor Tells CBIZ They Need More Acquisitions in Their Life
The last we checked in on happenings at CBIZ, we reported some info provided via the tipline that the firm had ended its employee stock purchase program which allowed employees…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Cool It on the Scandals, Students Are Watching; Quarterly Reporting Proposal Overwhelmingly Opposed | 7.6.26
Happy post-Independence Day! Hope everyone had a good holiday and still has all their fingers today. Getting back to business, a few things happened while you were sweating your nuts…
The SEC’s Quarterly Reporting Proposal Is Catnip for Comment Letter Writers, Investors Not So Much
As you may have heard (or may have seen via our three previous stories about a big proposed change to quarterly reporting that started with a Trump shower thought and…
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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Surprise, Surprise: More Evidence That What You Say To Your Chatbot Isn’t Always Private
If you didn’t get this week’s Tax Breaks newsletter, you may have missed this: the price of a first-class Forever stamp officially jumps from 78 cents to 82 cents today.
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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: KPMG’s Revenues; Gilmore Girls Guy Sues CohnReznick; What If You’re Smarter Than Your Boss? | 12.12.14
KPMG International Achieves Record Revenues [AT]Seems respectable: "KPMG International said it realized record revenues globally […]
Audit to Forensics?
I am an audit associate at a Big 4 firm in the Midwest. I like […]
Greg Kyte Almost Got His Butt Kicked Over Value Pricing at AccountingWEB Live
In case you haven't noticed, the GC Brain Trust is in Dallas, TX this week […]
Comp Watch ’14: KPMG Variable Comp is Out and Some Folks Aren’t Pleased
This just arrived in our inbox this morning, let's skip the formalities and get right […]
Accounting News Roundup: Small Ladies Get Small Sentences; Wal-mart’s Accounting Tricks; Tax Avoidance Problem Solving | 12.11.14
How Wal-Mart Made Its Crumbling China Business Look So Good for So Long [Bloomberg]After years […]
What do accountants want for Xmas/Winter Holiday Gift Giving Season?
I noticed that the Open Items section is pretty dead right now so I figure […]
Going Concern Presents: The Top 5 Open Items of 2014
I know it seems like a long time ago but believe it or not, we […]
Accounting News Roundup: The Auditor Sit n Spin; Child Taxstravaganza; Getting Un-Tough on insider Trading | 12.10.14
Prosecution drops embezzlement charge against accountant due to lack of evidence [MLive]“I’m not saying it […]
Luxembourg Leaks All Over EY’s Tax Planning
Last month, we learned about a trove of documents that revealed a creative tax planning […]
The Independent Foreclosure Review Is Ruining My Career!
I'm a third year manager at EY who spent 18 months (right after I became […]
The AICPA Can’t Figure Out Why Record Numbers of Accounting Grads Aren’t Taking the CPA Exam
AICPA President, CEO, and Benevolent Dictator Barry Melancon gave his yearly "state of the profession" […]