According to responses thus far on Vault's annual Accounting Survey (which you can take here […]
- Friday Footnotes: Archaeologists Dig Up 1,600-Year-Old Tax Fraud; Forget Ja Rule, Let’s Ask KPMG Interns What They Think | 8.7.26
- Jason Girzadas and Lara Abrash Both Score a Second Term at Deloitte US
- Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Chief Purpose Officer Dips Out of KPMG Dumpster Fire; EY Teases a New Quantum Computer | 8.3.26
Careers
View AllBig 4
View AllPwC CEO Said He’s Cool With It If His Kids Want to Go Into Consulting
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- August 6, 2026
Paul Griggs continues giving Business Insider his $0.02 with another article in a series of articles featuring the 30-year PwC veteran's wisdom: The career advice PwC's US CEO says he…
Jason Girzadas and Lara Abrash Both Score a Second Term at Deloitte US
- Going Concern News Desk
- August 4, 2026
Partners and principals at Deloitte US must think CEO Jason Girzadas and chair Lara Abrash are doing at least a satisfactory if not good job because both of them have…
Layoff Watch ’26: KPMG Australia May or May Not Be Letting 1,000 People Go
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 30, 2026
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)
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 30, 2026
Ed. note: This article was originally published on July 23, 2026. It was updated on July 30, 2026. Just as EY was moving on from the 2023 MOVEit data breach…
In Case You Didn’t Hear, PwC Interns Won’t Be Swarming Disney World This Year
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 28, 2026
F in the chat for PwC's 2026 interns, who will not be experiencing the magic of Disney like so many intern classes before them. PwC informed interns back in January…
News
View AllFriday Footnotes: Archaeologists Dig Up 1,600-Year-Old Tax Fraud; Forget Ja Rule, Let’s Ask KPMG Interns What They Think | 8.7.26
- Going Concern News Desk
- August 7, 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…
Jason Girzadas and Lara Abrash Both Score a Second Term at Deloitte US
- Going Concern News Desk
- August 4, 2026
Partners and principals at Deloitte US must think CEO Jason Girzadas and chair Lara Abrash are doing at least a satisfactory if not good job because both of them have…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Chief Purpose Officer Dips Out of KPMG Dumpster Fire; EY Teases a New Quantum Computer | 8.3.26
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- August 3, 2026
Good morning, capital markets servants. All nice and refreshed from your weekend, I hope. There's a little bit of news happening, let's get to it and get ourselves informed on…
Friday Footnotes: EY Silently Blocks Tokenmaxxing; Uniting Across the Aisle to Make the IRS Report Wait Times | 7.31.26
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 31, 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: KPMG Australia May or May Not Be Letting 1,000 People Go
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 30, 2026
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…
Technology
View AllEY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client (UPDATE)
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 30, 2026
Ed. note: This article was originally published on July 23, 2026. It was updated on July 30, 2026. Just as EY was moving on from the 2023 MOVEit data breach…
Big 4 Firm With AI Quotas Unironically Explains Why AI Quotas Are Such a Terrible Idea in Latest Survey
- Going Concern News Desk
- July 9, 2026
KPMG has released its AI Quarterly Pulse Survey for Q2 2026 and we're gonna have to be real with you, it's all over the place. Not the survey itself, just…
Beware This Hot New Scam: LinkedIn Job Hunt Takes a Sharp Detour Into Attempted Bank Emptying
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- July 7, 2026
Saw this post on r/accounting and while I know some of you feel a certain type of way about using Reddit for "content" it felt important to pass along to…
In New AI Guidelines, IRS Politely Suggests You Not Make Up Sources Like Deloitte Did
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 25, 2026
The IRS sent out a bulletin yesterday and we're going to write about it because for once it's not about tedious tax stuff that our audience doesn't have the patience…
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…
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…
Site Search
Twitter Feed
🎉 The @AcctPod is celebrating Episode 500—LIVE!
Join us Friday, August 7 at 12:00 p.m. Pacific for a special live broadcast from the @onpay_payroll Studio.
@BlakeTOliver, CPA and @davidleary will be joined by:
🎙️ Adrienne Gonzalez of @going_concern
🎙️ @adamzakinyc of @cfo
Quick Reads
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…
Sponsored Content
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…
KPMG Appears to Have the Same Eligibility for Admiration in Massachusetts as the New York Yankees
- Caleb Newquist
- February 1, 2013
A tipster came across the following poll from the Boston Business Journal in their LinkedIn feed: […]
Here’s an Unconfirmed Account of a KPMG Auditor That Walked Off the Job and Never Looked Back
- Caleb Newquist
- February 1, 2013
From the mailbag: There was an Audit Staff 2 in the Silicon Valley KPMG office […]
Accounting News Roundup: Firms Getting Scrutiny for Servicing Banks; The History of Taxing the Middle Class; BDO Picks Up PwC’s Scraps | 02.01.13
- Caleb Newquist
- February 1, 2013
Doubt Is Cast on Firms Hired to Help Banks [DealBook]Federal authorities are scrutinizing private consultants […]
Footnotes: Analyzing Herbalife’s Financials; Wasendorf Gets 50; Territorial Taxation in Play? | 01.31.13
- Caleb Newquist
- January 31, 2013
What Do Herbalife's Financials Tell Us? [GOA] FASB Clarifies Scope of Offsetting Disclosures [CW] There's […]
MP Really Disappointed with Big 4’s Life Choices
- Caleb Newquist
- January 31, 2013
Margaret Hodge, chairman of the House of Commons public accounts committee, told specialists from PwC, […]
The AICPA’s CGMA Designation Is the Most Popular Management Accounting Designation in the U.S., Says AICPA
- Caleb Newquist
- January 31, 2013
Oh look, the AICPA put out a press release that says the Chartered Global Management […]
Our Live CPA Exam Chat Is Now Taking Your Questions About Studying, Prometric Etiquette, and Whatever Else You Got
- Caleb Newquist
- January 31, 2013
Our resident CPA oracle, Adrienne Gonzalez is now fielding questions over at the original post […]
Accounting News Roundup: Individual Tax Evasion; Corporate Tax Avoidance; Bad Advice for Avoiding Identity Theft Tax Fraud | 01.31.13
- Caleb Newquist
- January 31, 2013
U.S. Is Preparing More Tax-Evasion Cases [WSJ]The U.S. is expanding its crackdown of offshore tax […]
Footnotes: PwC Is Audit King; Governors for State Reform; Taxing Private Equity | 01.30.13
- Caleb Newquist
- January 31, 2013
PwC, Deloitte keep top spots in global audit market [Reuters] UK proposes tougher accounting test […]
“Adjusted EBITDA (As Adjusted)” Is Our New Favorite Non-GAAP Measure Being Used By a Real-life Company
- Caleb Newquist
- January 30, 2013
Today in creative accounting news, Jonathan Weil has the absurd notion that some company would use […]
Everything You Need To Know About Blackberry 10 Because We Know You People Are Out There
- Greg Kyte
- January 30, 2013
Editor's note: Greg Kyte has been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Blackberry 10 like […]
