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A KPMG Senior Director Got Beat Up By a Guy Who Stars in Reacher
Oh my God it feels like it's 2010 all over again with that headline. Thanks to the algorithm for putting this item in my feed since no one saw fit…
KPMG Picked an Aussie to Rule Over the Global Empire [UPDATED]
Ed. note: This article was originally published on March 5, 2026. It was updated on March 18 after KPMG made a public announcement confirming Gary Wingrove as Global Chairman and…
Deloitte Runs a Photo Competition??
Wait, what is this? Deloitte Italy and Fondazione Deloitte [Deloitte Foundation] are handing out tens of thousands of euros in a photo competition centered around the subject of "proximites." Why?…
EY Is Now Paying a $10k CPA Bonus
Anyone in the mood for a bit of good news? Here goes: EY is doubling their CPA bonus for early career new hires who can manage to pass all four…
Layoff Watch ’26: PwC Goes on a Rampage Across Talent Acquisition
Respectfully, what is going on over at PwC? It feels like people have been getting cut left and right for months if not years. For today, we've got scoop on…
A KPMG Senior Director Got Beat Up By a Guy Who Stars in Reacher
Oh my God it feels like it's 2010 all over again with that headline. Thanks to the algorithm for putting this item in my feed since no one saw fit…
You’ll Never Guess Who’s Most Likely to Get Tax Scammed
It's not boomers. TLDR What's happening: McAfee's 2026 Tax Season Survey shows 1 in 4 Americans surveyed have fallen for some kind of tax scam and young people are particularly…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: One EYer Was Very Determined to Cheat; How Can You Not Know You Don’t Get Overtime? | 3.23.26
Hey, news lover. Here's what I was able to scrape up from our corner of the internet to get you nice and informed on this fine Monday morning. In this…
Friday Footnotes: PwC CEO Issues a Stern Threat to Luddite Partners; Compliance Startup Gets Slaughtered on Substack | 3.20.26
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…
Oh So We’re Actually Going to Get Rid of Quarterly Reporting After All Huh
ICYMI: Last September, President Trump truthed about quarterly reporting at 8 in the morning in what seemed like little more than deep thoughts one has while sitting on the can…
ICYMI: According to This AI CEO You Won’t Have to Go to Work in a Year
Commence to fantasizing about what you'll do with all that glorious free time when you lose your job to AI in 12-18 months because that's the confident prediction made by…
Another Early AI Accounting Startup Just Bit the Dust
TIL that early AI accounting platform Botkeeper has died. I found out via this CFO Brew article which pointed to a post on Botkeeper's own site. Turns out r/accounting was…
KPMG Brings Cheating Into the AI Age By Using AI to Cheat on AI Exams
The image is upside down because Australia. This story sounds like a joke but we assure you it is not. KPMG Australia has expanded KPMG's storied cheating repertoire by being…
KPMG Brings AI Talking Points to a Fee Negotiation, Inadvertently Opens a Pandora’s Box Filled With Stingy Clients
As reported by Financial Times on February 6, included in Friday's edition of Footnotes, and widely chuckled at by public accountants both current and former across the world since, KPMG…
Hackers Set Out to Ruin Tax Season Early For One Old-Ass Firm
'Tis the season. For alleged data breaches, that is. Cybernews is reporting that a Russian ransomware group called Lynx claims to have gotten its hands on a whole mess of…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | October 16, 2025
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Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | October 2, 2025
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Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | September 25, 2025
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Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | September 18, 2025
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Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | 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…
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Via @FinancialReview: "KPMG Australia has been accused of misusing confidential information from its client Lendlease to win external audit work for Westpac and Dexus, while allegedly failing to act on a whistleblower complaint."
A KPMG Senior Director Got Beat Up By a Guy Who Stars in Reacher
That headline isn't hyperbole, he actually got beat up. Have you ever wanted to watch a senior director get his ass handed to him by an actor? Boy are you in luck!
Here Are Tax and Audit Salaries at Top 25, Top 300, and Regional Firms
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
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)
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
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
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…
Top Remote Accounting Freelancers: February 3, 2024
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10 Essential Project Management Principles for Accounting Firms
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
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
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…
Marcum Didn’t Let a Little License to Practice Stand in the Way of Providing Professional Services in Ontario
We didn’t get around to writing up this September 25 news release from CPA Ontario […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Blaming PwC’s Bro Culture; How Do We Do Office Professional Now? | 10.2.23
Hey, welcome to October. You have my permission to start putting up those Halloween decorations […]
Friday Footnotes: EY’s Six CEO Candidates; Deloitte UK Partner Payouts Increase Again; IIA Gets Their Way | 9.29.23
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans […]
Prager Metis Just Got Thoroughly Boned By the SEC For Hundreds of Independence Violations
It’s not every day you get to witness a firm getting hit with HUNDREDS of […]
Listen Up, Young Accountants: Career Advice For Sticking Out Those Early Years
Ed. note: enjoy some wisdom from a profession OG in this guest post from Blake […]
Deloitte Survey Finds Zoomers Are 3x More Likely to Fall For Scams Than Boomers So Why Don’t More of Them Work at Deloitte
Buried in the fourth annual Connected Consumer survey announced Wednesday by Deloitte is a concerning […]
Longtime PCAOB Veteran and Skepticism Enthusiast George Botic to Sit on the Actual Board
“Like oxygen, audit quality may not be fully appreciated when it is present, but I […]
EY’s Work on This One Bank Project Was So Bad They Had to Refund the Client
Apologies in advance to that one guy in the comments who always accuses us of […]
CPA Exam Candidates: You Better Hurry Up and Apply For BEC Before It’s Gone Forever
Once again @profjackc has tweeted a very important reminder for current CPA exam candidates and […]
AICPA Unveils Its Most Desperate Pipeline Initiative Yet
Surely this will get the kids interested in accounting! She’s riding a skateboard because you […]
BDO USA and Two of Its Audit Partners Got in Trouble and It’s Gonna Cost Them $2 Million and Change
Fresh off the PCAOB’s published naughty list, BDO USA and partners Kevin Olvera and Michael […]