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Layoff Watch ’26: Big Cuts Are Coming at KPMG Australia
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Layoff Watch ’26: KPMG Australia May or May Not Be Letting 1,000 People Go
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Well Here’s a Surprise: Grant Thornton is Buying CBIZ For $5 Billion
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EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client (UPDATE)
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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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Deloitte Made the Creepy Digital Librarian From The Time Machine But For Golf
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What kind of dummy pays for losing scratch offs when you can get them by the handful out of the garbage can by the Powerball kiosk 🙄
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Did I just stumble onto mail-order tax fraud on eBay?
People are selling bundles of losing lottery tickets, explicitly advertised as “tax write-offs.”
$5,000 of someone else’s gambling losses for $50?
Well Here’s a Surprise: Grant Thornton is Buying CBIZ For $5 Billion
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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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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
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…
What’s Getting a PhD in Accounting Really All About?
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ANR: More on PCAOB Proposals; EY Part of Group Facing Revived Madoff Claim; Bakery Accountant Who Ran Off with Dough Arrested | 08.14.13
What You Need to Know About the Audit-Report Changes [WSJ][T]he industry strongly opposed one of […]
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Footnotes: Occupy the IRS Day 96; “Mo’ Money, Mo’ Meat”; SEC Off the Hook For Stanford Fraud | 08.13.13
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People Are Having Babies Earlier to Max Out Tax Benefits
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Here’s What You Need to Know About the PCAOB’s Proposed Makeover to the Auditor’s Report
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The Auditors’ Auditors Got a Clean Audit Opinion From Their Auditors
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Young Woman’s Dreams of Being Hired by KPMG Are Shattered by Possibly Being Hired by KPMG
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