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View AllLayoff Watch ’26: EY Trims Some Newbies in Audit
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 18, 2026
Seeing multiple posts about audit Staff 1s getting let go from EY this week, it's unclear how many are affected and if other service lines should brace for impact as…
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…
KPMG Redefines Excellence in the Age of AI By Using AI to Pump Out Dubious Citations in This Now-Removed Report
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 16, 2026
GPTZero, the folks who brought you this glorious takedown of an EY Canada report stuffed with completely made up sources, are back at it again and this time they've caught…
FRC To Determine Whether Missing a £30 Million Overstatement Was, In Fact, Bad Auditing
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 9, 2026
The Financial Reporting Council announced today that they're officially investigating PwC UK's 2024 audit of WH Smith which means fines and hand-slaps are likely forthcoming once that gets wrapped up.…
Compensation Watch ’26: Deloitte Salary Numbers Are Out and Some People Are Salty
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 6, 2026
Compensation threads were once a yearly tradition here at Going Concern many, many, many years ago but at some point Reddit took over the task so we've swung over there…
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View AllFriday Footnotes: Deloitte UK Asks Nearly 200 Auditors to Please F Off; AI Chatbots Favored Over Actual Accountants | 6.19.26
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 19, 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: EY Trims Some Newbies in Audit
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 18, 2026
Seeing multiple posts about audit Staff 1s getting let go from EY this week, it's unclear how many are affected and if other service lines should brace for impact as…
The IRS Moves Atlanta Employees to an Office That Makes the Rat-Infested Office Look Pretty Good
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 17, 2026
If you've been keeping up with the news cycle (or if you caught last Monday's Monday Morning News Brief), you've heard about the situation down in Atlanta involving IRS workers…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Oh Rats! The IRS Is Infested; PwC Partners Will Divorce If It Spares Their Cash | 6.15.26
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- June 15, 2026
Good morning, capital markets servants. Everyone have a good weekend? Good. Got some news for you. In this news briefThe IRS Phone Bank Pays HOW Much!?Getting Divorced Over an Audit…
Rumor Has It RSM Asked Some Partners to Dip Out
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- June 14, 2026
By "rumor" we mean actual rumors flying and making their way to your friendly neighborhood accounting tabloid. Seeing as we've now received this tip from multiple tipsters it feels like…
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View AllDeloitte 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…
KPMG Redefines Excellence in the Age of AI By Using AI to Pump Out Dubious Citations in This Now-Removed Report
- Going Concern News Desk
- June 16, 2026
GPTZero, the folks who brought you this glorious takedown of an EY Canada report stuffed with completely made up sources, are back at it again and this time they've caught…
KPMGers Are Maliciously Complying With The Firm’s AI Usage Requirements By Generating Fluff
- Going Concern News Desk
- May 28, 2026
On May 4, Business Insider published an article about KPMG's new AI dashboard. They've been publishing several articles in recent weeks about KPMG's AI initiatives actually, like the tax simulation…
Starbucks Kills Off Its Automated Counting AI Tool After Just 9 Months Because It Sucked at Counting Beans
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- May 22, 2026
While people outside of the accounting profession continue to smugly insist that accountants will be out of work in 12 months 18 months two years five years any day now…
EY Gets Busted and Yeets Report Littered With AI Hallucinations
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- May 15, 2026
Yesterday we received a news release from a communications firm working for a group called GPTZero. Now you should know that we receive probably a hundred or more news releases…
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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…
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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 AllTop Remote Accounting Freelancers: February 3, 2024
- Liz Branch
- February 3, 2024
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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…
Our Profession Really Has Abused Those at the Entry Level, Says Managing Partner to the Local News
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- November 8, 2023
KTVN in Reno has covered the CPA shortage and in order to do so because […]
Layoff Watch ’23: PwC Australia Is Cutting 4 Percent of the Workforce
- Going Concern News Desk
- November 8, 2023
We received a tip this morning: Australia getting cucked https://www.afr.com/companies/professional-services/pwc-cuts-hundreds-of-jobs-as-scandal-slowdown-hits-20231107-p5eibh The link leads us to Financial […]
Academics Let AI Ruthlessly Slander Big 4 Firms, They’re Very Sorry They Didn’t Think to Fact Check
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- November 7, 2023
Generative AI is a powerful tool, most of all in the hands of people who […]
Layoff Watch ’23: PwC UK Needs a Few Hundred People to GTFO
- Going Concern News Desk
- November 7, 2023
Financial Times reported late yesterday that the King’s PwC will cut up to 600 jobs […]
Layoff Watch ’23: 200 People at Grant Thornton Can Now Go Work For a Real Firm
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- November 6, 2023
Tips have been trickling in all weekend about layoffs at Grant Thornton however we couldn’t […]
List of the Day: The Accounting Firms on the 2024 Vault 100 Best Internships List
- Going Concern News Desk
- November 6, 2023
Another day, another list, another instance of us typing “another day, another list.” The list-making […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Consulting Pay Freezes; AI, Audit, and You | 11.6.23 (UPDATE)
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- November 6, 2023
Ed. note: An earlier version of this article had “KPMG Mega Merger?” in the headline. […]
Friday Footnotes: AI Trash Talks Big 4 Firms, Academics Apologize; EY Partner Took $700k in Naughty Money | 11.3.23
- Going Concern News Desk
- November 3, 2023
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans […]
From Felon to Firm Owner: A Redemption Story
- Blake Oliver, CPA
- November 3, 2023
Scott Scarano is not your typical accounting firm owner. With his hip-hop hats, silver chains, […]
Senior Associates Ask: ‘Why Should I Work So Hard Only to Get Permission to Work Even Harder?’
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- November 2, 2023
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has written about the talent shortage, […]
Cryptobros Celebrate the GAO Shooting Down a Sneaky SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin
- Going Concern News Desk
- November 2, 2023
Call them worthless bureaucrats if you must but the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) just […]
