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EY Is Rolling Out Nebulous New Rewards
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EY Got the Big Pentagon Audit Job
This according to what the Department of War put up yesterday: Ernst & Young LLP, New York, New York, is being awarded a labor-hour contract with a maximum value of…
Tuesday Morning Accounting News Brief: Hedge Fund Audit Earns Deloitte a Lawsuit; Auditor Rotation Not Popular Idea With Big 4 | 9.8.26
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Friday Footnotes: CFOs Are Getting Younger These Days; AI Pushes One Firm to Hire, Keeps Audit Fees Down | 9.4.26
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Chief Operating Officer Punted From the Partnership Post-Audit Scandal Sues KPMG
The former chief operating officer and audit partner who said at a parliamentary hearing last month that she didn't recall stuffing confidential documents in her personal locker is now suing…
Bill Gates Proposes a Tokens and Robots Tax
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Firms (and Some Guy Obsessed With China) Have Weighed in on the PCAOB Turning an Eye to AI
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Audit Leaders Currently in the “Throw AI at the Wall and See What Sticks” Phase
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EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client (UPDATE)
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Big 4 Firm With AI Quotas Unironically Explains Why AI Quotas Are Such a Terrible Idea in Latest Survey
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For Firms, Growth is Down But Profitability Is Up
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AICPA Pushes Back on IRS Suggesting CPAs Should Charge Less If They’re Using AI
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Friendly Reminder Not to Work Yourself to Death For This Profession
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Accounting Firm Abruptly Nopes Out of Tax Season Early (UPDATE)
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This Deloitte Office Has Eliminated Trash Cans at Desks to Make Staff Get Up Off Their Asses
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The IRS Decided to Troll Tax Pros For 10/15
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6 Ways Email is Secretly Destroying Your Accounting Firm
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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…
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The Monthly Close: Nothing’s Hotter Than Prostitution with Accurate Receipts
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Grant Thornton’s Philadelphia Office Gives a Purple Rose to Former Bachelorette Contestant
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Accounting News Roundup: Microsoft Coughs Up Change for Chinese Tax Evasion; An Accounting Pot Practice?; BDO Gunning for McGladrey | 11.26.14
We're calling it a half-day here and suggest to anyone who's actually working today to […]
So You Failed the CPA Exam Before the Holidays, Now What?
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Duh of the Day: Consulting Work by Audit Firms Could Possibly Impair Audit Integrity
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Accounting News Roundup: KPMG’s News Head of VC Tax; Twitter CFO’s Misfire; Casey’s BooBoo | 11.25.14
KPMG names Chadwick national tax leader for venture capital [Reuters]Chadwick. Francois Chadwick. "Chadwick has more […]
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The AICPA’s New Diversity Tool Is Guaranteed to Make the Profession Almost As Diverse as South Dakota
Diversity sucks in the accounting profession. I think it sucks, and I live in Utah. […]