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EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client
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Note to PwC Partners: Don’t Tell Reporters You Plan to Divorce Your Wife to Hide Assets After an Audit Scandal
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Layoff Watch ’26: Big Cuts Are Coming at KPMG Australia
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Turns Out Firms Don’t Like It When You Offshore Yourself
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Well Here’s a Surprise: Grant Thornton is Buying CBIZ For $5 Billion
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In Case You Didn’t Hear, PwC Interns Won’t Be Swarming Disney World This Year
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
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
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
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…
EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client
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
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Beware This Hot New Scam: LinkedIn Job Hunt Takes a Sharp Detour Into Attempted Bank Emptying
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In New AI Guidelines, IRS Politely Suggests You Not Make Up Sources Like Deloitte Did
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Deloitte Made the Creepy Digital Librarian From The Time Machine But For Golf
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Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | October 16, 2025
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Here Are Tax and Audit Salaries at Top 25, Top 300, and Regional Firms
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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
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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
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Another Reason To Be Glad You Are Not a Lawyer, As If You Needed One
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Accounting Firm Busted Stealing From the Cloud in “Plain, Vanilla Dispute About a Customer List”
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EY Wishes You the Slowest Holiday EVER
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The Accounting World Issues a Collective Sigh as Soon Enough, We Won’t Have to Talk About Revenue Recognition
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Feed the Pig Shares Some Suggestions For Emptying Out Your Bank Account at Christmas
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Accounting News Roundup: Financial Reporting Affluenza; More on the Passing of Abe Briloff; This Year’s Taxes Will Give Rich People Sad | 12.16.13
Is Bigger Really Better? Not When It Comes to Financial Reporting Transparency! [GOA]Tony Catanach found […]
Footnotes: RIP Abe Briloff; Working the Holiday Party; Pittsburgh Gets to Know BDO | 12.13.13
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Senate Finance Committee Approves Guy for Thankless Job
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Grant Thornton Employees Break Out Dynamic Christmas Sweaters for Holiday Party
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