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Friday Footnotes: Great, KPMG Got the Whole Big 4 in Trouble; Pentagon Brings in Agentic AI to Address Their Audit Problems | 6.12.26
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Crowe Told Its People Private Equity Might Be Coming So They Didn’t Have to Find Out Through a WSJ Article (UPDATE)
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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: What’s KPMG Got to Do With the NBA Finals; PCAOB Chairman Is Just One of the Guys | 6.8.26
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KPMGers Are Maliciously Complying With The Firm’s AI Usage Requirements By Generating Fluff
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The One Firm Willing to Audit Madison County’s Books Just Said “On Second Thought, Hell Nah”
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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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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…
Friday Footnotes: KPMG Hires Ex-Prisoners; Notes From PwC’s All-Hands; Why CPAs Are Leaving | 4.26.24
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Solved: The Mystery of KPMG’s Redacted PCAOB Inspection Report (Kinda)
This past February, the PCAOB released KPMG’s 2022 inspection report but inexplicably redacted the firm’s […]
EY Introduces Us to the Worst Buzzword Yet
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KPMG Was Too Cheap to Pay Foreign Graduates More So They Yanked All Their Job Offers
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Confidential to Clients: You Better Act Right, You’re Getting Graded Now
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Deloitte Checks in on Women at Work, the Results Aren’t Good
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The PwC Partner Class Will Be Much Smaller This Year
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Hey. I trust everyone had a nice weekend. I shall dispense with the filler small […]