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View AllEven PwC Is Hyping Up GTA VI Now
- Going Concern News Desk
- November 5, 2026
With 14 days to go until the release of the most anticipated game of this decade, PwC has pushed out a bit of thought leadership-slash-economic analysis titled "Vice City, everywhere:…
Deloitte Guy’s Love Life Has Become a Federal Matter
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 30, 2026
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
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 27, 2026
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
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 20, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- October 14, 2026
...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…
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View AllFriday Footnotes: KPMG Settles With Investors; AICPA Proposes Outside Investor Guidance | 11.6.26
- Going Concern News Desk
- November 6, 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…
Even PwC Is Hyping Up GTA VI Now
- Going Concern News Desk
- November 5, 2026
With 14 days to go until the release of the most anticipated game of this decade, PwC has pushed out a bit of thought leadership-slash-economic analysis titled "Vice City, everywhere:…
Turns Out Offshoring Isn’t a Cheap Forever Solution to Talent Problems
- Going Concern News Desk
- November 3, 2026
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)
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- November 3, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- November 2, 2026
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…
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View AllThe Robots Want Your Emails, and the AICPA Has Concerns
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- November 4, 2026
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
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 27, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- September 30, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- September 24, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- September 16, 2026
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…
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View AllThe Robots Want Your Emails, and the AICPA Has Concerns
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- November 4, 2026
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
- Going Concern
- October 15, 2026
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
- Going Concern
- September 15, 2026
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
- Going Concern News Desk
- September 10, 2026
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
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- September 9, 2026
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
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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 AllFinance Leaders Are Shopping for a CAS Partner, and They Brought a List
- Going Concern
- October 15, 2026
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
- Going Concern
- September 15, 2026
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
- 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,…
Public Accounting Winter Intern Full-time Offers, Round 2
- Caleb Newquist
- April 16, 2013
Today, there are a lot of dazed tax interns walking around, wondering what happened to […]
ANR: Livent Lawsuit Kicks Off Against Deloitte; Boston-area Taxpayers Will Get Extra Time for Filing Returns; Any CPAs Want to See Spiderman on Broadway? | 04.16.13
- Caleb Newquist
- April 16, 2013
Livent’s auditors ignored ‘red flags,’ court told [Globe and Mail]Livent Inc.’s auditors at Deloitte & […]
Footnotes: Happy Tax Day, Y’all! (Except the Canadians) | 04.15.13
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- April 15, 2013
Wall Street posts worst day since November 7 on gold's drop, Boston blasts [Reuters] Psst, […]
Tax Day Is Barack Obama’s Favorite Day of the Year, Says Dude Running for Texas Land Commissioner
- Caleb Newquist
- April 15, 2013
Dude is also nephew of a former President. So I guess that's why it's news. […]
Intuit Loves That You Hate Doing Your Taxes
- Greg Kyte
- April 15, 2013
In the last five years, Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, has spent $11.5 million lobbying […]
PwC Tops Vault Accounting 50 (2014)
- Caleb Newquist
- April 15, 2013
After a couple of interesting teasers on LGBT relations and satisfaction among women, our friends at Vault have unveiled their Accounting 50 ranking today. The results will probably annoy many of you because, yes, PwC topped the three big categories in Vault's 2014 rankings — Overall Ranking, Prestige, and Diversity.
Accounting News Roundup: Scott London’s Non-existent Baseball Career; An Alternative Maximum Tax; Trojan Providing Free Stimulus on Tax Day | 04.15.13
- Caleb Newquist
- April 15, 2013
Scott London, KPMG Partner Accused Of Insider Trading, Lied About Baseball Career [HP]"There is no […]
Footnotes: The POTUS Tax Return; Hallmark Tax Moments; YOLO for Accountants | 04.12.13
- Caleb Newquist
- April 12, 2013
Here are Barack Obama and Joe Biden's 2012 tax returns. [THP] "Obamacare" Tax Increases Could Cost […]
Vault Survey: Male Big 4 Partners Most Satisfied; Female Senior Associates Least Satisfied
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- April 12, 2013
Our friends at Vault will release their Accounting 50 ranking on Monday, but if you […]
Public Company CFO Says Naming Audit Partner Is NBD
- Caleb Newquist
- April 12, 2013
Andy Bishop is the chief financial officer of Hallador Energy, a publicly traded coal company. […]
Kaption Kontest Friday: Say Kheese!
- Caleb Newquist
- April 12, 2013
Via the New York Times, ex-KPMG Partner Scott London (right) leaves court with his attorney, […]
