This Shady Chattanooga Accounting Firm Just Went Down in Flames and Still Owes Staff Months of Pay
Ed. note: the original story included quoted, attributed text from Chattanooga Times Free Press. We’ve removed this quote by their request after receiving a nasty email. Chattanooga Times Free Press has written quite the story about legacy accounting firm Croft & Frost abruptly laying everyone off earlier this week after months of issues making payroll. […]
Unsatisfied With Her $140k Salary, Law Firm Controller Gave Herself a Raise
In a little law and order news courtesy the Department of Justice, a law firm controller has pleaded guilty this week to inflating her payroll amount by $1.48 million over the course of three years. Her annual salary, her real annual salary, was approximately $140,000. Way to take the fight against low wages into your […]
EY’s New Payroll Chatbot Just Has to Be Slightly Less Sucky Than HR to Be a Success
No doubt proud of its partnership with a massive professional services organization that is mostly prestigious unless some scandal or embarrassing internal falling out is afoot, Microsoft has written a long and complementary blog post about EY’s new toy the ‘EY Intelligent Payroll Chatbot‘. Speaking of EY and payroll, the great “just kidding!” payroll snafu […]
The King’s KPMG Had a Little Tax and Payroll Problem
Sky News received some insider info that KPMG UK had a bit of a tax problem last week, relating to the firm’s legal structure and employee contracts. This is on top of a payroll issue last week that meant staff checks arrived late. Sky News: The fiasco is understood to have arisen as a result […]
EYers Are Waking Up to Overdrafts This Morning Due to a Serious Payroll Snafu (UPDATED)
We’re learning this morning that folks at EY will not be getting lunchtime DoorDash today, their paychecks from last Friday have been unceremoniously yeeted from their bank accounts. Per a tipster: There’s a payroll snafu of some sort at EY and seems just about everyone had their payroll reversed. Mass panic and overdrafts. And a […]
An Interview with an Accounting Firm Partner ‘Mire-d’ In Client Service and Musicals
Welcome back to another installment of … uh … we never did name this series, did we? My bad. Well whatever, welcome back to another installment of us interviewing folks around the accounting profession who have mastered the art of working smarter, not harder. This series is brought to you by our friends at Gusto; […]
An Interview with an Accounting Firm Managing Partner Who Likes Sleep as Much as We Do
If you asked small business owners what it’s like to process payroll (or onboard employees, or set up insurance, or, well you get the hint), you would probably hear it described as “dull,” “time-consuming,” and “a big pain in the butt.” But what if payroll was actually “awesome,” “easy,” and “quick?” Shocking concept, we know. […]
Crunching Some Numbers on the Cubs
Everyone’s buzzing about the Cubs this week. 108 years is a long time to wait for a championship win! In honor, let’s take a peek at some numbers that are floating around. That’s always fun. Ticket price mania World Series ticket prices soared to an average of over $6,000. That’s an insane price, especially when […]