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Your Critical Thinking Skills Might Suffer If You Use Gen AI at Work
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Your Critical Thinking Skills Might Suffer If You Use Gen AI at Work

  • Adrienne Gonzalez
  • February 13, 2025

Although we haven’t fully decided whether accountants are knowledge workers or manual laborers so long […]

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Career Limiting Moves: Prospective PwC Intern Accused of Using ‘Sock Puppet’ Twitter Accounts to Tweet Bigoted Crap

  • Caleb Newquist
  • April 22, 2016

Ed. note: Warning, there's some offensive language contained in this post.

Today in potential career limiting moves, we have a prospective PwC intern being accused of creating a bunch of “sock puppet” Twitter accounts to hurl bigoted tweets at high school football recruits.

  • Tax

After Being Convicted of a $100 Billion Tax Fraud, Skipping Your Sentence to Hit the Links Is the Next Logical Step

  • Caleb Newquist
  • January 30, 2015

If you had recently been convicted of a $100 billion tax fraud and it were […]

  • IRS

Mad Scientist Gets Prison Time for Using His Dog and Cat in a Tax Avoidance Scheme

  • Adrienne Gonzalez
  • September 17, 2014

You know, I often joke that my cats Buck and Cash are interns, assistants, accountants, […]

  • Tax

The Olds Don’t Get the Internet and All Tax Collectors Are Evil, Say Younger, More Paranoid Republicans That Oppose Online Sales Tax

  • Caleb Newquist
  • June 18, 2013

The Marketplace Fairness Act is back in the news again, as The Hill reports that […]

  • IRS

Georgia Man Discovers IRS Wasn’t Joking About the Possibility of His Fake Treasury Bond, Fraudulent Tax Return, Bogus Refund Landing Him in Jail

  • Caleb Newquist
  • June 13, 2013

If you are currently thinking about engaging in any tax fraud, you should know that […]

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When Stealing From Your Company, Be Sure To Charge Boss’s Birthday Party To Your Personal Account

  • Adrienne Gonzalez
  • March 28, 2013

Note: teaser image is not this clown's mugshot. Florida, naturally: Ruth C. Amen, a longtime […]

  • Fraud

Bad Spelling Can Derail an Otherwise Promising Career in Fraud

  • Greg Kyte
  • February 20, 2013

For God's sake, get a good education.

In his 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama said, "To grow our middle class, our citizens must have access to the education and training that today’s jobs require." However, the President failed to mention the education and training that today's crimes require.
  • Fraud

Ernst & Young Study Finds That Fraudsters Aren’t So Creative with Code Words Over Email

  • Caleb Newquist
  • January 7, 2013

If you and some cohorts are fed up with walking the straight and narrow, be […]

  • CFOs

It’s Difficult to Pinpoint Exactly Why Life Partners Fired Their CFO After He Was on the Job for 11 Days

  • Caleb Newquist
  • September 4, 2012

Life Partners Holdings hired Scott Dubs as its CFO on August 20, 2012. Life Partners […]

  • Fraud
  • Tax

Woman’s Absurdly Unsophisticated Tax Scheme Still Managed to Dupe The Oregon Department of Revenue

  • Caleb Newquist
  • June 8, 2012

As we've witnessed, perpetrators of tax fraud oftentimes utilize very simple methods. Slapping a dead […]

  • Tax

Apparently Some People Filed Tax Returns In Their Pets’ Names

  • Caleb Newquist
  • May 21, 2012

Everyone knows that the IRS makes silly mistakes from time to time, but presuming that […]

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Daily Wire is Pissed Off About a PwC Career Program That Excludes White and Asian Candidates

  • Adrienne Gonzalez
  • February 7, 2025

Although this should have been on their radar already because PwC got sued by America First Legal over it two years ago, conservative muckraking site Daily Wire has just now…

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The Only Piece of Advice You Need to Survive Layoffs at Your Firm

  • Adrienne Gonzalez
  • August 7, 2024

Comment on "How are layoffs decisions really made?" via r/Big4 If it backfires so what, they were going to lay you off anyway. I really hope this advice gets sucked…

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Weekend Discussion: Let’s Talk Counteroffers

  • Adrienne Gonzalez
  • June 29, 2024

Earlier this week, a recruiter told me a story about a job seeker who was already employed but looking to jump elsewhere. She interviewed with a firm that really loved…

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