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- In Case You Didn’t Hear, PwC Interns Won’t Be Swarming Disney World This Year
- Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Do More Work to Get More Work, Says PwC Leader; Can You Teach Interns to Think? | 7.27.26
- Friday Footnotes: Regulators Turn Their Eye to Offshoring; Auditors Ask “Is It Incompetence or Is It Fraud?” | 7.24.26
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View AllIn Case You Didn’t Hear, PwC Interns Won’t Be Swarming Disney World This Year
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 28, 2026
F in the chat for PwC's 2026 interns, who will not be experiencing the magic of Disney like so many intern classes before them. PwC informed interns back in January…
EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 23, 2026
Just as EY was moving on from the 2023 MOVEit data breach in which more than 30,000 Bank of America customers may have had their personal information compromised, a fresh…
Note to PwC Partners: Don’t Tell Reporters You Plan to Divorce Your Wife to Hide Assets After an Audit Scandal
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- July 15, 2026
Welp there goes at least one PwC partner's plan to divorce his spouse to protect assets from Evergrande fallout. As covered by Bloomberg in June (and included in our 6.15.26…
Layoff Watch ’26: Big Cuts Are Coming at KPMG Australia
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 14, 2026
This just in from Financial Review: KPMG is preparing to cut hundreds of jobs and reduce partner pay by as much as 20 per cent, as the fallout from the…
Turns Out Firms Don’t Like It When You Offshore Yourself
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 14, 2026
A man fired from PwC Ireland for working in India when he was supposed to be in Dublin has lost his unfair dismissal case before the Workplace Relations Commission, a…
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View AllIn Case You Didn’t Hear, PwC Interns Won’t Be Swarming Disney World This Year
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 28, 2026
F in the chat for PwC's 2026 interns, who will not be experiencing the magic of Disney like so many intern classes before them. PwC informed interns back in January…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Do More Work to Get More Work, Says PwC Leader; Can You Teach Interns to Think? | 7.27.26
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- July 27, 2026
Hey. Somehow it's already Monday again so let's find some news for you to start the week. In this news briefKPMG's Exercise in Critical Thinking For InternsComp Slows at SeniorDo…
Friday Footnotes: Regulators Turn Their Eye to Offshoring; Auditors Ask “Is It Incompetence or Is It Fraud?” | 7.24.26
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 24, 2026
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…
EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 23, 2026
Just as EY was moving on from the 2023 MOVEit data breach in which more than 30,000 Bank of America customers may have had their personal information compromised, a fresh…
Grant Thornton Wants to Get Back on the Audit A Team
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 22, 2026
As Financial Times originally reported and we covered in early 2024, Grant Thornton UK got kicked off the esteemed top tier of the Financial Reporting Council's audit inspection targets in…
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View AllEY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 23, 2026
Just as EY was moving on from the 2023 MOVEit data breach in which more than 30,000 Bank of America customers may have had their personal information compromised, a fresh…
Big 4 Firm With AI Quotas Unironically Explains Why AI Quotas Are Such a Terrible Idea in Latest Survey
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 9, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- July 7, 2026
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
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 25, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- June 18, 2026
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…
Practice Management
View AllTop Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | October 16, 2025
- Liz Branch
- 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
- Liz Branch
- 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
- Liz Branch
- 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
- Liz Branch
- 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
- Liz Branch
- 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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Somewhere out there exists a CPA who has no problem getting the IRS on the phone, allegedly
@GringoElCamino @CollinRugg @Damnoldguy Don't you love getting attacked for telling the truth? LOL. Happens to me a lot on this platform.
I tried to call the IRS yesterday for a duplicate EIN letter and the system hung up on me due to "high call load". It's a joke. I also know that my CPA, who used to work for the
I personally know 4 business owners who have been scammed out +$50k each recently. Here’s the playbook:
- Thief pretends to be a vendor using very similar email address
- Monitor emails until a payment is due
- Ask to get paid a different way
- Payment gets wired and money
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View AllHere Are Tax and Audit Salaries at Top 25, Top 300, and Regional Firms
- Going Concern News Desk
- April 11, 2025
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- March 26, 2025
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)
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- March 20, 2025
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
- Going Concern News Desk
- November 7, 2024
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
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 15, 2024
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…
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View AllTop Remote Accounting Freelancers: February 3, 2024
- Liz Branch
- 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
- GoingConcern
- October 5, 2023
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
- GoingConcern
- September 21, 2023
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
- GoingConcern
- September 7, 2023
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…
The Big Problem with Big Data for Big Accounting Firms
- Sidney Kingston
- March 21, 2014
If you made a Big 4 drinking game and included the words Big Data, Cloud and Analytics, you’d be in the hospital before you logged your first eight chargeable hours of the week. These all started as leadership buzzwords, but in reality they’ve started to gain real traction, at least in my firm.
Crony Links: CPAs Practicing Yoga; Three Types of Work Burnout;
- Caleb Newquist
- March 21, 2014
If you've grown tired of obsessing over your Excel March Madness bracket or kvetching over the […]
PwC Competing Against Shaving, Toys and Delicious Food for Guinness World Record Award
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- March 21, 2014
Did you know PwC is a Guinness World Record holder? No, not for most coffees […]
ANR: Disclosure Reform Sounds Fun; Accounting Firms Hire Some of Their Interns; Bust Stress with Waffles | 03.21.14
- Caleb Newquist
- March 21, 2014
Fiscal Reality Check: Will Congress Pay for the Tax Extenders and the Doc Fix? [TaxVox]"No," […]
Advice for contacting Chief Audit Executive?
- DraggingBehindUncleD
- March 21, 2014
I am currently in the search for new jobs, in hopes of cutting the ridiculous […]
Footnotes: The World’s Most Ethical Company; IRS Early Birds Ruined a Man’s Life; JUST RELAX | 03.20.14
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- March 21, 2014
All big U.S. banks but one pass Fed's health test [Reuters] It's hard out there […]
Let’s Take a Look Back at the First Tweets of Accounting Firms
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- March 20, 2014
Twitter turned 8 today and in celebration, released a tool to dig up a user’s […]
TIGTA Reveals There Are Still Stupid People Falling for Fake IRS Phone Scams
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- March 20, 2014
Despite having warned taxpayers over and over that the IRS does not and will not […]
Man With Deep Pockets Busted Stealing a Lot of Laundry Money
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- March 20, 2014
Just how many loads of laundry could one do with $460,000 in stolen quarters? That's […]
Going Concern March Madness: Recap of Excel Functions and Key Shortcut Winners
- David Ringstrom
- March 20, 2014
Ladieees and gentlemen (yes, we’re using those terms loosely), here are your winners from Round […]
Let’s See How Far Women Have Come in the Workplace Since 1945
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- March 20, 2014
This young lady on Twitter shares with the class: 20 things men don't like about […]
