As evidenced by the identical mint shirts and sensible shoes, Big 4 life is not really the place for free-thinking individualists. Sure, you could try letting your hair fall into glorious, unshampooed disrepair and burn nag champa at your desk but unless you’re the direct blood relation of someone important at the firm, you can start planning how your free-thinking ass is going to make those unemployment checks last if you dare break away from the pack.
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Layoff Watch ’26: The King’s KPMG Kindly Asks 600 Auditors to GTFO
We covered this story in yesterday's Monday Morning Accounting News Brief but it's significant enough news to earn its own spot in a separate article as it's a large market…
A KPMG Senior Director Got Beat Up By a Guy Who Stars in Reacher
Oh my God it feels like it's 2010 all over again with that headline. Thanks to the algorithm for putting this item in my feed since no one saw fit…
KPMG Picked an Aussie to Rule Over the Global Empire [UPDATED]
Ed. note: This article was originally published on March 5, 2026. It was updated on March 18 after KPMG made a public announcement confirming Gary Wingrove as Global Chairman and…
Deloitte Runs a Photo Competition??
Wait, what is this? Deloitte Italy and Fondazione Deloitte [Deloitte Foundation] are handing out tens of thousands of euros in a photo competition centered around the subject of "proximites." Why?…
EY Is Now Paying a $10k CPA Bonus
Anyone in the mood for a bit of good news? Here goes: EY is doubling their CPA bonus for early career new hires who can manage to pass all four…
Friday Footnotes: EY Tells Tax to Get Back in the Office; Associates Are Vibe Coding Now | 4.3.26
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…
Layoff Watch ’26: The King’s KPMG Kindly Asks 600 Auditors to GTFO
We covered this story in yesterday's Monday Morning Accounting News Brief but it's significant enough news to earn its own spot in a separate article as it's a large market…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Asks Hundreds of People to Go; One Big Beautiful Bill Equals Billable Hours | 3.30.26
Good morning and happy Monday, capital markets servants. I ventured out into the muck to dig up some news for you to start the week. In this news briefYour Services…
Friday Footnotes: EY Socks Away a Bunch of Money For Future Fines; Can You Leave at 5 and Still Make Partner? | 3.27.26
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…
The Top 20 Firm That Kicked Off PE Madness in 2021 and Its PE Firm Announce They’ll Keep Kickin’ It
EisnerAmper (#15 on the INSIDE Public Accounting Top 100 with $1.023 billion in revenue) and TowerBrook Capital announced yesterday that they've completed a continuation vehicle transaction which basically means TowerBrook…
ICYMI: According to This AI CEO You Won’t Have to Go to Work in a Year
Commence to fantasizing about what you'll do with all that glorious free time when you lose your job to AI in 12-18 months because that's the confident prediction made by…
Another Early AI Accounting Startup Just Bit the Dust
TIL that early AI accounting platform Botkeeper has died. I found out via this CFO Brew article which pointed to a post on Botkeeper's own site. Turns out r/accounting was…
KPMG Brings Cheating Into the AI Age By Using AI to Cheat on AI Exams
The image is upside down because Australia. This story sounds like a joke but we assure you it is not. KPMG Australia has expanded KPMG's storied cheating repertoire by being…
KPMG Brings AI Talking Points to a Fee Negotiation, Inadvertently Opens a Pandora’s Box Filled With Stingy Clients
As reported by Financial Times on February 6, included in Friday's edition of Footnotes, and widely chuckled at by public accountants both current and former across the world since, KPMG…
Hackers Set Out to Ruin Tax Season Early For One Old-Ass Firm
'Tis the season. For alleged data breaches, that is. Cybernews is reporting that a Russian ransomware group called Lynx claims to have gotten its hands on a whole mess of…
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 @Inc: Meet the AI Co-Worker That Snitches to Your Boss—and Never Stops Working
South Florida rapper known as “Walking Bankroll” arrested for alleged multimillion-dollar tax fraud scheme
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…
Grant Thornton Was Into Sarbanes-Oxley Before It Was Cool
When you think of hipsters, Ed Nusbaum probably isn't the first guy who comes to […]
IRS Throws Hissy Fit About Not Being Able to Regulate Preparers, Gives Up On Everything
The IRS has decided that, as a result of the recent decision preventing it from […]
At what point is it your responsibility to report violations of professional standards?
Long story short, I'm a "two and out" former big 4 auditor who took a […]
Accounting News Roundup: Grant Thornton Revival; Bad Bank Audits; Get Down! | 05.28.14
Regulators Set New Rules for Companies’ Revenue Accounting [DealBook]Accounting for revenue — one thing that […]
Footnotes: Gimme a Raise; Tim Geithner Can’t Account; TMI SEC | 05.27.14
The country's top-paid CEOs will get a 400% pay raise this year, while you and […]
Deloitte Reveals the Secrets Behind the Life at Deloitte Twitter Account
How many times have we wistfully wondered "there is no way this can be a […]
Grover Norquist Hopes Godzilla Can Teach Us About Living in Constant Fear
You will recall a recent Open Item that asked what if accountants could be replaced […]
Moss Adams Gunning Hard to Win Creepiest Doll in a Suit Award
Can someone please explain what's going on with this oddly-shaped voodoo doll that is Adam […]
Man Learns It’s Probably Best to Just Pay Your Taxes and Not Threaten to Kill IRS Agents
While many of us were running off for a 3 day weekend, one Andrew A. […]
For Just the Cost of 125 Cups of Coffee, You Can Sponsor a Future Leader in Need
NASBA's Center for the Public Trust is soliciting donations to sponsor a future leader, and […]
Accounting News Roundup: Pfizer Gives Up; Sterne Agee sues KPMG; Reminder: Don’t Threaten IRS Agents | 05.27.14
Pfizer Abandons Bid for AstraZeneca [DealBook]Although the door could re-open in a few months: "Pfizer […]