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Layoff Watch ’26: EY Trims Some Newbies in Audit
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Deloitte Made the Creepy Digital Librarian From The Time Machine But For Golf
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KPMG Redefines Excellence in the Age of AI By Using AI to Pump Out Dubious Citations in This Now-Removed Report
GPTZero, the folks who brought you this glorious takedown of an EY Canada report stuffed with completely made up sources, are back at it again and this time they've caught…
FRC To Determine Whether Missing a £30 Million Overstatement Was, In Fact, Bad Auditing
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Compensation Watch ’26: Deloitte Salary Numbers Are Out and Some People Are Salty
Compensation threads were once a yearly tradition here at Going Concern many, many, many years ago but at some point Reddit took over the task so we've swung over there…
Friday Footnotes: Deloitte UK Asks Nearly 200 Auditors to Please F Off; AI Chatbots Favored Over Actual Accountants | 6.19.26
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: EY Trims Some Newbies in Audit
Seeing multiple posts about audit Staff 1s getting let go from EY this week, it's unclear how many are affected and if other service lines should brace for impact as…
The IRS Moves Atlanta Employees to an Office That Makes the Rat-Infested Office Look Pretty Good
If you've been keeping up with the news cycle (or if you caught last Monday's Monday Morning News Brief), you've heard about the situation down in Atlanta involving IRS workers…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Oh Rats! The IRS Is Infested; PwC Partners Will Divorce If It Spares Their Cash | 6.15.26
Good morning, capital markets servants. Everyone have a good weekend? Good. Got some news for you. In this news briefThe IRS Phone Bank Pays HOW Much!?Getting Divorced Over an Audit…
Rumor Has It RSM Asked Some Partners to Dip Out
By "rumor" we mean actual rumors flying and making their way to your friendly neighborhood accounting tabloid. Seeing as we've now received this tip from multiple tipsters it feels like…
Deloitte Made the Creepy Digital Librarian From The Time Machine But For Golf
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…
KPMG Redefines Excellence in the Age of AI By Using AI to Pump Out Dubious Citations in This Now-Removed Report
GPTZero, the folks who brought you this glorious takedown of an EY Canada report stuffed with completely made up sources, are back at it again and this time they've caught…
KPMGers Are Maliciously Complying With The Firm’s AI Usage Requirements By Generating Fluff
On May 4, Business Insider published an article about KPMG's new AI dashboard. They've been publishing several articles in recent weeks about KPMG's AI initiatives actually, like the tax simulation…
Starbucks Kills Off Its Automated Counting AI Tool After Just 9 Months Because It Sucked at Counting Beans
While people outside of the accounting profession continue to smugly insist that accountants will be out of work in 12 months 18 months two years five years any day now…
EY Gets Busted and Yeets Report Littered With AI Hallucinations
Yesterday we received a news release from a communications firm working for a group called GPTZero. Now you should know that we receive probably a hundred or more news releases…
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 | 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
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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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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
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
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Top Remote Accounting Freelancers: February 3, 2024
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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…
No Shirt, No Shoes, No Accounting Degree, No Probl– Actually, Small Problem
Remember Part 1 of this where a few of you asked "what was the point […]
How to Make Small Talk For Human Beings Who Have Never Communicated With Other Human Beings
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Here’s Another BS Article About What Millennials Want For Your Consideration
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We Posted Open Items, You Won’t Believe What Happens Next
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Leave It to Americans for Tax Reform to Ruin the Thrill of the Winter Olympics
It was only a matter of time. Cry cry cry, the IRS taxes income Americans […]
Accounting News Roundup: How the SEC and PCAOB Are Like Starsky and Hutch; Who Needs Help with Managing Their PBC List?; Fooling Auditors | 02.07.14
Good cop/bad cop [Paul Gillis/CAB]The PCAOB and SEC make quite the team: "The PCAOB and […]
Footnotes: Why Employees Stay; 2013 CPA Exam Candidate Performance; So Lisa Isn’t a Slut, Then? | 02.06.14
Unemployment Bill Stalled Anew in Senate [AP] The 2013 CPA Exam candidate performance book is […]
Forget Auditor Rotation, the PCAOB Has Bigger Fish to Fry in China
As you know, I sat through the SEC Open Meeting webcast yesterday just to catch […]
Protip to Government Accountants: If You’re Into Kiddie Porn, You Probably Shouldn’t Watch It At Work
Lord knows I'm no prude but I think we can all agree there is never […]
RSVP: Designing Internal Control Systems for SMEs on February 20th
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Should You Put Your Home Address on Your Resume?
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