Sony Corp. and the Mystery of the Lousy Audit [Bloomberg] Dewey Have Data on How […]
EY GDS Philippines Turns 11, Celebrates By Planning to Hire An Additional 2,000 People
EY's global delivery machine in The Philippines is marking 11 years this month and as a treat, they're apparently adding 2,000 more people to its roster of more than 6,000…
Revenue Is Down For the First Time in 17 Years But at Least Partners Got a Raise at PwC UK
Looks like offshoring and layoffs couldn't save the King's PwC from a revenue slump this year. The firm has just reported revenue of £6.2 billion (approximately $8.28 billion USD), a…
EY Got the Big Pentagon Audit Job
This according to what the Department of War put up yesterday: Ernst & Young LLP, New York, New York, is being awarded a labor-hour contract with a maximum value of…
Chief Operating Officer Punted From the Partnership Post-Audit Scandal Sues KPMG
The former chief operating officer and audit partner who said at a parliamentary hearing last month that she didn't recall stuffing confidential documents in her personal locker is now suing…
Big 4 Climate Activism Has a Pretty Convenient Revenue Stream, Say 16 State AGs in Tedious Letter to Firms
The attorneys general of 16 states have written a long strongly worded letter to Big 4 firms (and CC'd the SEC) warning them that the firms' climate commitments and willingness…
Another Accounting Firm Is Getting Into the Law Business
After KPMG opened the door to the accounting-firms-doing-law space last year, another firm has thrown their green eyeshade into the ring. Idaho-HQd and private equity-backed Sorren (IPA #49 with $193,296,588…
EY GDS Philippines Turns 11, Celebrates By Planning to Hire An Additional 2,000 People
EY's global delivery machine in The Philippines is marking 11 years this month and as a treat, they're apparently adding 2,000 more people to its roster of more than 6,000…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: AI Is Making Clients Even Worse; India’s Still Working on Homebrew Big 4 | 9.21.26
Hey. Can someone please tell me why it's still 90 degrees outside? I'm beyond ready for fall already. ICYMI: An Accountingfly client is looking for people with seven or more…
Friday Footnotes: PwC Bonuses Take a Hit; EY Thinks It Has a Slick Return to Office Trick | 9.18.26
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…
Revenue Is Down For the First Time in 17 Years But at Least Partners Got a Raise at PwC UK
Looks like offshoring and layoffs couldn't save the King's PwC from a revenue slump this year. The firm has just reported revenue of £6.2 billion (approximately $8.28 billion USD), a…
The AICPA Wants Tax Pros to Take a Hit From Its New AI Risk CART
Rather than dropping a strongly worded letter on the topic of the IRS's position on AI in tax practice and dropping the topic there to focus on other pressing matters,…
Deloitte Survey: A Lot of People Are Using Clandestine AI at Work
As corporations everywhere shove AI down our throats and businesses wrestle with the conflict between rushing to integrate AI to not be left behind and having to pay for it…
Bill Gates Proposes a Tokens and Robots Tax
Bill Gates has written a loooong essay on AI covering all sorts of things from potential benefits to immediate concerns. Feel free to read the whole thing if you'd like,…
Firms (and Some Guy Obsessed With China) Have Weighed in on the PCAOB Turning an Eye to AI
The comment period for PCAOB Release No. 2026-005 Request for Public Comment on PCAOB Standard Setting has closed and when all was said and done, it racked up an unremarkable…
Audit Leaders Currently in the “Throw AI at the Wall and See What Sticks” Phase
Gartner has released some numbers on AI usage they harvested from audit professionals and the headline figure shouldn't surprise anyone: only 7% of those surveyed report they aren't using AI…
Expense Management: Because Apparently Clients Will Pay You to Make Expense Reports Suck Less
Spend and expense management is one of the most in-demand CAS services—and one of the most underutilized. There’s still plenty of room to get into the game. Clients are drowning…
For Firms, Growth is Down But Profitability Is Up
That's the headline from INSIDE Public Accounting based on the results of their 2026 Practice Management Report: The report draws on survey responses from 605 North American accounting firms, spanning…
AICPA Pushes Back on IRS Suggesting CPAs Should Charge Less If They’re Using AI
Back in June the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) issued its first solid AI guidance in the form of a bulletin titled Introductory Guidelines for Responsible AI Use in…
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…
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“I want an accountant who isn’t afraid to go to jail.”
A prospect actually sent me this.
He said his current CPA was too “by the book” and he wanted someone more aggressive.
Obviously, I didn’t respond.
Because yes, I am very afraid of jail.
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Via @business: "PwC is planning to halve bonuses in Switzerland as the Big Four accounting firm seeks cost cuts in response to artificial intelligence and a challenging economic environment, according to people familiar with the matter."
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…
Expense Management: Because Apparently Clients Will Pay You to Make Expense Reports Suck Less
Spend and expense management is one of the most in-demand CAS services—and one of the most underutilized. There’s still plenty of room to get into the game. Clients are drowning…
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,…
Mitt Romney Dug Out Some Old Tax Returns and Crunched Some Numbers
Are you happy, rubes? Mitt Romney said on Thursday that he had not paid less […]
Here’s a Look Inside Deloitte’s New Office Location at 30 Rock
Long ago, we broke the news that Deloitte would be consolidating its New York City […]
“Same As Last Year” and Inept Senior Auditors Are Failures of the Audit Industry
The following was written by a second year staff auditor who wishes to remain nameless. […]
Who’s Going to Make Honest Capital Market Servants Out of These PwC Interns?
Last week we mentioned that many interns were doing happy dances after learning that none […]
ANR: BDO Making Moves in UK; Charges Unlikely Against MF Global Execs; Your Dismal (or Missing) Raise, Explained | 08.16.12
BDO in talks to take over accountancy rival PKF [Telegraph]BDO, Britain’s sixth biggest audit firm, […]
Footnotes: Groupon’s Accounting Dance; Romney’s Non-response Responses; PCAOB Requires More Talking | 08.15.12
Sen. Levin: New York regulator showed ‘backbone’ in bank settlement [The Hill] Groupon’s accounting shuffle: […]
Here Are Two Accounting-themed Videos Parodying “Call Me Maybe” That You Didn’t Ask For
We've received a number of emails in the past 24 hours pointing to a recruiting […]
Jim Turley Has All Kinds of Reasons for Supporting LGBT Inclusion
Apologies to Chuck Norris, but Jimbo didn't mention anything about pressure from the White House […]
Study: Billing by the Hour Makes You Suck
A recent study from City University London determined that "the 'tyranny of billable hours' in professional […]
Ten Embarrassing and Irrelevant Reasons Why Accounting Firms Suck at Advertising
The “Call our boy Ed Nusbaum” rose ad is up there as one of the most cringe-worthy pieces of advertising ever, not just out of accounting. We get it, GT, you’re trying to make accounting all sexy and stuff but put an old white guy on your ad with a rose between his teeth and it just comes off as weird. Make it a chick and you’re just being creepy and demeaning. Good to know the rebranding has helped the Purple Rose of Chicago beef up its advertising efforts, even if questions still remain as to how accurate said advertising is. And really, “instinct for growth” is still kinda sleazy, albeit not rose-in-the-teeth level sleaze. Sounds like GT needs a few hours of sexual harrassment training.
Accounting News Roundup: Will the U.S. Ever Come Around on Taxes?; More on Ryan’s Budget; Longing for Booze on the Job | 08.15.12
America’s Aversion to Taxes [NYT]It may not be impossible for the American political system to […]