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- Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Chief Purpose Officer Dips Out of KPMG Dumpster Fire; EY Teases a New Quantum Computer | 8.3.26
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- Layoff Watch ’26: KPMG Australia May or May Not Be Letting 1,000 People Go
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)
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
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…
Note to PwC Partners: Don’t Tell Reporters You Plan to Divorce Your Wife to Hide Assets After an Audit Scandal
Welp there goes at least one PwC partner's plan to divorce his spouse to protect assets from Evergrande fallout. As covered by Bloomberg in June (and included in our 6.15.26…
Layoff Watch ’26: Big Cuts Are Coming at KPMG Australia
This just in from Financial Review: KPMG is preparing to cut hundreds of jobs and reduce partner pay by as much as 20 per cent, as the fallout from the…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Chief Purpose Officer Dips Out of KPMG Dumpster Fire; EY Teases a New Quantum Computer | 8.3.26
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
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)
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…
Well Here’s a Surprise: Grant Thornton is Buying CBIZ For $5 Billion
When tips started pouring into the tipline about this early this morning I thought I must be still asleep and dreaming. No, it's definitely real. Grant Thornton announced this morning…
EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client (UPDATE)
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
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
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
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
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…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | 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
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
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
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
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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Learned something new today about Deloitte's marketing business:
"Deloitte Digital US's workforce is concentrated most in India (21.3%), followed by the United States (16.1%) and the United Kingdom (11.0%), with Spain, its fastest-growing location."
Let’s talk occupational licensing:
I despise how this works in many states and municipalities for all manner of industries, from hair braiders needing cosmetology licenses to a pool contractor needing a general contractor license. Many times it is a hindrance and harm rather
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
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
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…
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Don’t Be a Menace to the Cloud While Leveraging Your Dynamic Innovative Disruption While at #DigitalCPA*
For the remainder of the week, I'm in DC covering the 2012 CPA2Biz Digital CPA […]
RSM Tenon Shareholders Actually Acted on Their Dissatisfaction with PwC’s Auditing Ability
You may not know this, but McGladrey's British sister from another mister is RSM Tenon. […]
Politicians Incorrectly Demonizing “Tax Loopholes” Is Old Hat
Today, Christopher Bergin explains how our elected officials butcher the term "tax loophole": For now, […]
Accounting News Roundup: Digging Up Bodies at Deutsche Bank; PCAOB’s Latest Report; Moss’ Merger | 12.06.12
Deutsche Bank: Show of strength or a fiction? [FT]Josef Ackermann was bullish. Even as the […]
Footnotes: Oh, That Muddy Waters; Geithner Ready to Take a Tumble; Happy Birthday, Tax Foundation! | 12.05.12
Ospraie Says Block's Olam Accounting Claims 'Exaggerated' [BBW] Deloitte Consulting CEO: Make Yourself Replaceable [WSJ] Geithner: […]
Science Says You Should Have Multiple Large Monitors
Back in October, we learned that PwC auditors had finally whined loud enough to earn […]
Timesheet Wars: Non-Billable Codes Are Orwellian Busywork
Timesheets, billing rates, and chargeable goals still piss me off. I haven't tracked my time […]
PCAOB Member Jay Hanson Can’t Imagine a World with Auditor Rotation
On Monday, PCAOB Chairman James Doty gave a speech where he mentioned, among other things, […]
SEC, China Will Probably Compromise Over Big 4 Chinese Affiliates Someday, Says Guy
The SEC's move against the Big 4's Chinese affiliates on Monday has people all worked […]
Layoffs Watch ’12: KPMG Has Good News and Bad News
With regard to the aforementioned cuts, the good news is that some of you got […]
ANR: Big Accounting Trouble in Big China; Audit Work Papers = State Secrets; Coburn Prefers Higher Rates to Capped Deductions | 12.05.12
SEC Probe Puts China Listings in Doubt [WSJ] The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's high-profile attack […]