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FRC To Determine Whether Missing a £30 Million Overstatement Was, In Fact, Bad Auditing
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The IRS Moves Atlanta Employees to an Office That Makes the Rat-Infested Office Look Pretty Good
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Rumor Has It RSM Asked Some Partners to Dip Out
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Crowe Told Its People Private Equity Might Be Coming So They Didn’t Have to Find Out Through a WSJ Article (UPDATE)
Ed. note: This article was originally published on October 9, 2025. It was updated on June 12, 2026 after WSJ published an exclusive article announcing a private equity deal. Update…
KPMG Redefines Excellence in the Age of AI By Using AI to Pump Out Dubious Citations in This Now-Removed Report
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Starbucks Kills Off Its Automated Counting AI Tool After Just 9 Months Because It Sucked at Counting Beans
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EY Gets Busted and Yeets Report Littered With AI Hallucinations
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KPMG Plans to Hand Routine Testing Off to AI
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ANR: Let the Sequester Blamestorming Begin!; PCAOB Looking for ‘Least Disruptive Solution’ re: China; Ambitious Gang Members Steal Tax Returns Rather Than Sell Drugs | 02.28.13
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Footnotes: The Lew Guy; E&Y, KPMG Big Audit Client Winners; Where’s the Hate for Tax Subsidies? | 02.27.13
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God, Deloitte Is Still Humblebragging About Its Hiring Numbers
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The Second Batch of CPA Exam Scores for the Jan/Feb Testing Window Has Been Released
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Accounting News Roundup: Corporate America’s Deadliest Catch; ‘We did a lot of erasing.’; Obama’s Thénardier Impression | 02.27.13
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Footnotes: Citi’s Unbelievable Financial Statements; GT Picks Off China Expert From E&Y; You Need a Meeting Intervention | 02.26.13
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If a Symbolic Gesture Doesn’t Convince You That John Boehner Is Serious About Tax Reform, Then Nothing Will
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