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Footnotes is a weekly wrap-up of news from around the accounting profession hand-picked by Going Concern editors to keep partners, staff, and practitioners of all stripes informed.
Published every Friday at 5 PM Eastern time.
Friday Footnotes: Big 4 Pride; KPMG Gets Snubbed; EY Goes on a Poaching Spree | 6.3.22
Accountant Finds Out Client Has “Skeletons In The Closet”, Gets The IRS Involved And Makes […]
Friday Footnotes: EY Gets Extra Empathetic; Broke KPMG Partner Sues; Auditor Pay Cuts? | 5.27.22
Accounting Giant EY Created A Chief Wellbeing Officer To Uplift And Empower Their People [Forbes] […]
Friday Footnotes: Which Firm Puts in the Most Hours?; Clients Pay for the Talent War; Spotting Burnout | 5.20.22
Boring No More: Accountants, Auditors See Themselves as Creative, Curious and Adventurous, Study Shows [PR […]
Friday Footnotes: KPMG’s Idea of a Fun Summer; IRS Eats Their Homework; Downsized GT Downsizes | 5.13.22
Junior KPMG auditor ‘should not lose his home’ for misleading regulator, says tribunal [Financial Times] […]
Friday Footnotes: Firms on India Hiring Spree; PCAOB Heads Overseas; PwC Lets You See Your Family This Summer | 5.6.22
Mesa grandma, 25-year-old accountant share love of Phoenix Suns [Arizona’s Family] JoAnne Ralph and Ben […]
Friday Footnotes: 43% Plan to Quit; Earf Day and ESG; Deloitte Director Stole $3m to Flex | 4.22.22
Ed. note: Happy belated 420 Earth Day, everyone! In honor of the one day a […]
Friday Footnotes: Client Hid ‘Damning’ Audit; Predictions for the Profession; Accounting Firm Gets Compromised | 4.15.22
Ed. note: Happy almost Easter to those who celebrate, happy 11th birthday today to my […]
Friday Footnotes: Firms Make Progress on Diversity; EY Growth Plan; PIZZA PARTY! | 3.8.22
CPA firms show progress in diversity amid pipeline challenges [Journal of Accountancy] The AICPA finally […]
Friday Footnotes: No Foolin’ Here; 18,000 New Accounting Jobs; Skills Auditors Need NOW to Be Future-Ready | 4.1.22
Ed. note: forgive us, we lack the bandwidth to come up with an April Fool’s […]
Friday Footnotes: ‘KPMG Did Not Know What They Were Doing’; Are You Boring?; PCAOB Warns About Confirmations | 3.25.22
These are the 5 most ‘boring’ — and exciting — jobs in the world, according […]
Friday Footnotes: The Salary Problem Catches Up to Firms; Deloitte Changes Its Mind; KPMG Punished (Again) | 3.18.22
Accounting Faces Reckoning After Years of Sluggish Pay Growth [Bloomberg Law] Gasp! Asking for time […]