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EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client (UPDATE)
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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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Friday Footnotes: EY Silently Blocks Tokenmaxxing; Uniting Across the Aisle to Make the IRS Report Wait Times | 7.31.26
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: KPMG Australia May or May Not Be Letting 1,000 People Go
The ever-reliable Australian Financial Review said yesterday that, per their sources, KPMG is planning to let "dozens" of partners and 1,000 staff go in September as the firm tries to…
EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client (UPDATE)
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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 🙄
#taxtwitter
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
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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10 Essential Project Management Principles for Accounting Firms
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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…
AICPA Will Pass “Old” GAAS on the CPA Exam in 2014
Well look at that, you guys got all worked up over the Clarity Project and […]
Hey Look, BDO Had Another Decent Year
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Arthur Andersen Alumni’s Efforts at Social Media Are Making Us Sad
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Accounting News Roundup: IBM Defends Cloud Accounting; FRC Drops Probe of KPMG Audits of BAE; Sales Tax Holidays This Weekend | 08.01.13
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McGladrey’s Great Lakes Leader Is Gonna Take Off Now
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I Can’t Stop Staring at This Picture of Benajmin Bankes Hamming It Up
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Let’s Discuss: Switching From Your Firm’s Audit Practice to the Advisory Practice
Last week during Caleb’s pseudo office hours, someone threw out the following question:
Have y'all covered the transition from Assurance to Transaction Services in GC?
Ahh, audit to advisory. The Holy Grail of internal transfers.
Accounting News Roundup: Tax Reform Roadshow; More Fierce Audit Competition; New Industry Leaders at Grant Thornton | 07.31.13
U.S. lawmakers take Washington tax reform show on the road [Reuters]Democratic Senator Max Baucus and […]
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Footnotes: What Do the IRS and Nazis Have in Common?; It’s Not Fraud if It’s a Change in Accounting; Darrell Issa Needs a New Hobby? | 07.30.13
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If Not a Troll, This Guy Might Be the Saddest Accountant Ever
When I say "saddest accountant ever," I exclude certain Going Concern commenters who shall remain […]