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View AllLayoff Watch ’26: EY Trims Some Newbies in Audit
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 18, 2026
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…
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…
KPMG Redefines Excellence in the Age of AI By Using AI to Pump Out Dubious Citations in This Now-Removed Report
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 16, 2026
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
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 9, 2026
The Financial Reporting Council announced today that they're officially investigating PwC UK's 2024 audit of WH Smith which means fines and hand-slaps are likely forthcoming once that gets wrapped up.…
Compensation Watch ’26: Deloitte Salary Numbers Are Out and Some People Are Salty
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 6, 2026
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…
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View AllFriday Footnotes: Deloitte UK Asks Nearly 200 Auditors to Please F Off; AI Chatbots Favored Over Actual Accountants | 6.19.26
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 19, 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…
Layoff Watch ’26: EY Trims Some Newbies in Audit
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 18, 2026
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
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 17, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- June 15, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- June 14, 2026
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…
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View AllDeloitte 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…
KPMG Redefines Excellence in the Age of AI By Using AI to Pump Out Dubious Citations in This Now-Removed Report
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 16, 2026
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
- Going Concern News Desk
- May 28, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- May 22, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- May 15, 2026
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…
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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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…
PwC Acquired an Interactive Marketing Company Because Why the Hell Not?
- Caleb Newquist
- September 25, 2013
This lede from the South Florida Business Journal says it all: The growing array of […]
Accounting News Roundup: PwC Spain Partners in Tax Trouble; HP Accounting Chief Quits; Debating Private Equity | 09.25.13
- Caleb Newquist
- September 25, 2013
61 PwC Partners Accused of Tax Crimes Over Bonuses in Spain [Bloomberg]Spain’s anti-corruption prosecutor accused […]
Footnotes: Spreadsheet Addicts; Accounting is Totes Hawt; Where’s the Passion? | 09.24.13
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- September 24, 2013
Tim Ryan has an opinion on why accounting is still an attractive profession and you […]
Greener Grass: Now Is the Time to Make a Mooove in Your Accounting Career
- Caleb Newquist
- September 24, 2013
Now that's officially fall, you're probably thinking it's finally time that you got serious about […]
Deloitte Study: Accountants Don’t Have Fire in Their Bellies
- Caleb Newquist
- September 24, 2013
Our AWEB colleague Jason Bramwell has the earth shattering results of Deloitte's Unlocking the Passion of the […]
More PCAOB Comment Letters Need to Complain About the Issuer-pay Model
- Caleb Newquist
- September 24, 2013
If you're like us, you've been anxiously awaiting comment letters on the PCAOB's auditor reporting […]
(UPDATE) Accounting News Roundup: ‘The auditors had a good crisis’; PwC Loses MLM Client to KPMG; EY New Partner Group Photo | 09.24.13
- Caleb Newquist
- September 24, 2013
UPDATE/CORRECTION: It seems the Post dropped Nuskin in their article for no apparent reason other […]
Footnotes: Countdown to Shutdown!; Lease Accounting Shmease Accounting; Chicks Rule | 09.23.13
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- September 23, 2013
TD Bank will pony up $52.6 million to settle claims related to one of their […]
GOP Senator: Lois Lerner’s Retirement Is Only the Beginning of Us Dragging This Thing Out
- Caleb Newquist
- September 23, 2013
Last week, Lois Lerner was "technically still employed," but Bloomberg's Richard Rubin reports that the […]
Which Accounting Firm Has an Office Experiencing Cooling and Plumbing Issues Today?
- Caleb Newquist
- September 23, 2013
This sounds unfortunate. From the always fun tip box: [Well-known CPA firm] is working hard […]
Public Companies Filing Restatements Totally Aware That Many People Blow Friday Off
- Caleb Newquist
- September 23, 2013
Audit Analytics has a great post today about Friday filing dumps, something that Footnoted has […]
