
Audit Partners and MDs Work Much, Much Harder Than Everyone Else at PwC
Saw this in PwC’s 2022 Audit Quality Report and wanted to get the peanut gallery’s opinion on this math: My first thought is imagine how much worse these numbers would be if you people didn’t eat as many hours as you do. Though judging by this, you’re getting much better at it. Thoughts? Concerns? Outrage? […]
SEC Union Warns SECers They Should Learn To Shovel Lunch Into Their Faces In a Prompt Manner
Of all the SEC's "time management" issues (I need not mention to what I am referring), is lunch really up there? Apparently so: Add the ability to eat quickly to the list of skills needed to work at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In a dispute that has sent pangs of resentment — and […]
[UPDATED] The War Against the Billable Hour Goes Mainstream
Imagine my shock when I started combing Google News for something – anything – worth writing today and I found this profile of accounting hero and billable hour combatant Jason Blumer in the New York Times Magazine. It's official: the war against the billable hour has gone mainstream and it wears ridiculous round glasses: Like […]
If You Equate Long Hours with Hard Work Then You Aren’t “Committed” But You May Be a Dumbass
In the blood-thirsty world of public accounting, people will do anything to get ahead. While there are a few out there who realize that a life of cubicles, impatient clients, out-of-date laptops, and elaborately designed pivot tables does not constitute life or death, there are many people who spend years of their lives believing otherwise. […]
Fiscal New Year’s Eve Fun: How To Handle Last Minute Time Entry Requests
Let no one say nothing good ever comes out of BDO. From the tip box: Hey Going Concern, It's almost June 30, and you know what that means! Yep, BDO YE! That also means being bombarded with a million emails to enter all of our time. As a BDO lifer I don't know, but […]