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Uh Oh, PwC Is Up to Something
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Apparently Shouting “Promote Me! Promote Me!” in a Partner’s Face Can Get You Promoted at Deloitte
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AI Will Be EY Auditors’ New BFF, According to EY
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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: AI Boom Investor Fraud Off to a Strong Start; Do We Even Need Tax Pros? | 4.20.26
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Friday Footnotes: PwC Partners Are Doing Great These Days; IRS Encourages Whistleblowing | 4.17.26
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…
Deloitte to Slash Benefits For Non Client-Facing Staff
We specifically added the non-client-facing bit in the headline soz not to scare everyone. It's rough enough out there on the front lines as it is, we don't need to…
Uh Oh, PwC Is Up to Something
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Faced With PR Nightmare Due to Email Mistake, Becker Chooses the “Fine, Everyone Wins” Option
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KPMG Plans to Hand Routine Testing Off to AI
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AI Will Be EY Auditors’ New BFF, According to EY
While staff in tax at EY US will soon be spending more time with their flesh-based colleagues due to a return-to-office mandate that requires them in the office for an…
ICYMI: According to This AI CEO You Won’t Have to Go to Work in a Year
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Another Early AI Accounting Startup Just Bit the Dust
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KPMG Brings Cheating Into the AI Age By Using AI to Cheat on AI Exams
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Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | October 16, 2025
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Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | September 18, 2025
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Via @FT: Former EY employee sues firm over dismissal after viral Israel speech
AICPA should pay you to use this for a tagline if they're still bothering with that pipeline initiative thing
If you like it when people get mad at you for doing the right thing, you'll love being a CPA
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
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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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Top Remote Accounting Freelancers: February 3, 2024
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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…
(UPDATE) Some KPMGers and Their Kin a Tad Outraged They’re Missing Out on a Billion Dollars
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Going Concern March Madness: The Ultimate Excel Bracket
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Footnotes: Things Looking Up for Ex-Qwest CEO; FDIC Sues Some Banks; Another Big 4 Work-life Balance Story | 03.14.14
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Deloitte Exec Gets Six-Week Vacation Thanks to Wife’s Heavy Foot, Russian Frivolity
I don't know about you all, but I'm enjoying all this tension with Russia. I […]
Crony Links: Accountants Worrying About Image; Are Managers Necessary?; Tips if You’re Overwhelmed
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How to Use Excel to Manage March Madness
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Let’s Chat: Best Excuses You Get From Your Lazy/Unorganized Clients
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Now You Know Why There Are So Many Elijah Watt Sells Award Winners
Remember yesterday when we shared with you the 55 winners of the 2013 Elijah Watt […]
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