Naming Them: Why Markets Deserve To Know Audit Partner Names And More [Re:The Auditors]Francine McKenna […]
Deloitte Guy’s Love Life Has Become a Federal Matter
Last Friday, 42-year-old Ian Brinksman was picked up by the feds for allegedly passing top secret national defense information to another individual. Though that individual wasn't named by any reports,…
Hackers Have Apparently Stolen a Whole Lot of PwC Homework
Oh no, hackers have swiped oodles of slides! PwC has confirmed that a third-party vendor it uses for employee records has been breached after a "cyber extortion group" said they…
PwC Ekes Past EY With $60.2 Billion in Reported Global Revenue
Wow, Big 4 are really rushing out revenue numbers this year aren't they? First we got Deloitte in late September, EY two weeks later, and now PwC has just dropped…
KPMG Australia Has Made a List of Things It Probably Should Have Done Already
...such as "support whistleblowers" and "punish people who do stuff that will give Australian Financial Review an easy 9 months of negative headlines." So KPMG Australia is still in its…
EY Didn’t Do Too Bad Last Year
Shortly after Deloitte released their 2026 revenue numbers on September 24, EY had some numbers of their own, announcing $57 billion in global revenue last week. Notably, they edged out…
Turns Out Offshoring Isn’t a Cheap Forever Solution to Talent Problems
Well we knew this would happen eventually. An article published today in Accountants Daily is all about how small firms over in Australia are struggling to hire talent. Now, if…
CBIZ Shareholders Are Cool With the Grant Thornton Merger, the Deal is a Go (UPDATE)
Ed. note: This article was originally published on October 29, 2026. On November 2, 2026, both CBIZ and Grant Thornton announced the transaction had completed. We didn't think this deserved…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Boss Hates Work From Home; KPMG Catches Some Heat For Personnel Plans | 11.2.26
Hey. Put down the fun size candy bar and read some news. In this news briefFar Be It From the SEC to Hinder Technological InnovationGT + CBIZ 4EverKPMG Gets Some…
Friday Footnotes: IRS Employees Told Not to Deliberately Choose Mediocrity; EY Partners Give Themselves Record Pay | 10.30.26
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 Guy’s Love Life Has Become a Federal Matter
Last Friday, 42-year-old Ian Brinksman was picked up by the feds for allegedly passing top secret national defense information to another individual. Though that individual wasn't named by any reports,…
The Robots Want Your Emails, and the AICPA Has Concerns
Last month a pitch arrived in our editor inbox, the title of which was "Going Concern, meet the startup helping accounting firms turn old Slacks and emails into free money."…
Hackers Have Apparently Stolen a Whole Lot of PwC Homework
Oh no, hackers have swiped oodles of slides! PwC has confirmed that a third-party vendor it uses for employee records has been breached after a "cyber extortion group" said they…
Bill Gates Predicts AI Will Be Taking Clients’ Most Tedious Questions 24/7 Within a Few Years
Did you catch Bill Gates' recent chat with Ezra Klein? I didn't, thankfully my washed colleague regularly reads NYT and sent it to me via Slack. Many people are stuck…
The AICPA Wants Tax Pros to Take a Hit From Its New AI Risk CART
Rather than dropping a strongly worded letter on the topic of the IRS's position on AI in tax practice and dropping the topic there to focus on other pressing matters,…
Deloitte Survey: A Lot of People Are Using Clandestine AI at Work
As corporations everywhere shove AI down our throats and businesses wrestle with the conflict between rushing to integrate AI to not be left behind and having to pay for it…
The Robots Want Your Emails, and the AICPA Has Concerns
Last month a pitch arrived in our editor inbox, the title of which was "Going Concern, meet the startup helping accounting firms turn old Slacks and emails into free money."…
Finance Leaders Are Shopping for a CAS Partner, and They Brought a List
Cash flow, automation, fraud protection. Your firm can deliver all three. Finance leaders would like some help with the accounting. Not a little help, either. BILL asked 354 finance decision-makers…
Expense Management: Because Apparently Clients Will Pay You to Make Expense Reports Suck Less
Spend and expense management is one of the most in-demand CAS services—and one of the most underutilized. There’s still plenty of room to get into the game. Clients are drowning…
For Firms, Growth is Down But Profitability Is Up
That's the headline from INSIDE Public Accounting based on the results of their 2026 Practice Management Report: The report draws on survey responses from 605 North American accounting firms, spanning…
AICPA Pushes Back on IRS Suggesting CPAs Should Charge Less If They’re Using AI
Back in June the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) issued its first solid AI guidance in the form of a bulletin titled Introductory Guidelines for Responsible AI Use in…
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The Robots Want Your Emails, and the AICPA Has Concerns
A meticulously thorough read on the TaxDome situation:
TaxDome changed its pricing, and the pitchforks came out. But the bill isn’t the only thing worth reading. The updated data terms deserve attention, too. I ran the numbers and read the fine print.
https://www.joshandtaxes.com/p/taxdome-new-pricing-ai-data-terms
Turns Out Offshoring Isn’t a Cheap Forever Solution to Talent Problems
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…
Finance Leaders Are Shopping for a CAS Partner, and They Brought a List
Cash flow, automation, fraud protection. Your firm can deliver all three. Finance leaders would like some help with the accounting. Not a little help, either. BILL asked 354 finance decision-makers…
Expense Management: Because Apparently Clients Will Pay You to Make Expense Reports Suck Less
Spend and expense management is one of the most in-demand CAS services—and one of the most underutilized. There’s still plenty of room to get into the game. Clients are drowning…
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,…
Footnotes: PCAOB Takes Down Deloitte, Again; SEC’s Plain English (or Lack Thereof); KPMG Steals a Couple Audit Clients From EY | 11.22.13
Audit Regulator Rebukes Deloitte The government's audit regulator has publicly rebuked Deloitte & Touche LLP for […]
Life at Deloitte Just Had the Best Week Ever
As you guys all know, we love mocking the PR-heavy crap that is spewed out […]
Thank Goodness It’s Friday Open Items!
Before I let you loose in this week's open items thread, I have a brief […]
Accounting News Roundup: Goodwill Testing for Private Companies; Detroit’s New CFO; Who Loves Key Shortcuts? | 11.22.13
Goodwill Testing May Soon Get Simpler for Private Companies [CFOJ]Emily Chasan writes that the FASB […]
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Footnotes: More Thievin’ Accountants; KPMG Wants To Hire 30% More in Advisory; JobsOhio Has 99 Accounting Problems and an Audit Ain’t One | 11.21.13
Audit finds accounting problems at JobsOhio [Coshocton Tribune] Plante Moran is trying to mentor kids […]
We Hear The Second Batch of CPA Exam Scores For Q4 Are Here
NASBA hasn't announced it yet but according to Another 71, CPA exam scores — which […]
Former GB Packer LeRoy Butler’s Charity May Have Kind of Forgotten To File With the IRS
And just wait until you see the part where he bitches on Twitter about it. […]
Here’s a Fake AICPA Press Release That We Wish Were Real
This is so ridiculous that upon receiving it, Colin did one of those cartoonish double-takes, […]
New Audit Associate Looking For Prank Ideas, Possibly a New Job in Near Future
Oh, man. Are we going to go here? I think we are. From the suggestion […]
Accounting News Roundup: Get With It, Audit Committees; States That Cut Taxes in 2013; Newsflash: Bank Execs Are Paid Well | 11.21.13
Audit Committees Urged to Be More Transparent [CFOJ]If the National Association of Corporate Directors, Center […]
Footnotes: New Digs For EY; LOL French People; Ugh Deadbeat Clients | 11.20.13
After SEC Prod, Microsoft Adds Details on Foreign Taxes and Surface [WSJ Digits] Legendary accountant […]