Promotion Watch ’22: Plante Moran Adds 29 New Partners
Fortune magazine’s favorite accounting firm promoted 29 new partners across eight service lines and 15 offices at the beginning of August. The new partner class of 2022 at Plante Moran is the firm’s largest in the last several years, surpassing the 24 in 2021, 25 in 2020, 16 in 2019, and 15 in 2018. Here […]
The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: Plante Moran #30 (2022)
Here’s one takeaway from covering the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For rankings the last 12 years: A BCTWF list without Plante Moran on it just doesn’t feel right. But that has been a rare occurrence since the magazine started the ranking. In fact, Plante Moran is one of four companies (EY too) that […]
Compensation Watch ’21: Is Plante Moran Rolling Out Salary Adjustments For the Masses? (UPDATE)
[Updated with additional comp information at the bottom of article originally posted on Nov. 22.] The answer is YES according to a tip we received last week: A few weeks ago Plante Moran announced to its employees that everyone is getting a January 1 market increase (separate from the normal market and merit increases that […]
Promotion Watch ’21: Plante Moran Admits 24 New Partners
Thirteen men and 11 women have earned their seats at the big kids table at Plante Moran. This class of newly minted partners is one less than last year’s 25, which may or may not have been a record amount. The new partners for 2021 are: Jaime Eckels, Auburn Hills, MI Dori Eggett, Denver Valerie […]
The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: Plante Moran #91 (2021)
[Updated on June 11 with information about employee raises.] Plante Moran is the darling of the F100BCTWF, having made the list for the 23rd time; however, PM is dangerously close to dropping out of the top 100, falling from No. 21 last year to No. 91 this year. Despite the huge drop in the rankings, […]
Comp Watch ’20: Plante Moran Is Not Giving Out Raises—And Some People Are Not Pleased (UPDATE)
[Updated on Sept. 10 with additional information.] Back in late June, we were told that Plante Moran employees wouldn’t be getting raises this year, that the firm was only paying out bonuses at 75%, and that there wouldn’t be a 401(k) match, presumably due to the COVID-19 crisis. Well, we got an update this week […]
Promotion Watch ’20: Plante Moran Admits 25 New Partners
A batch of 25 new Plante Moran partners has been released into the wild, and I’ll go out on a limb and say it’s thee biggest class of new partners in the firm’s history. It’s definitely the largest class since 2015: 2020: 25 2019: 16 2018: 15 2017: 21 2016: 13 2015: 16 Here are […]
Vault 2021 Rankings: Plante Moran Has Got a Hang of This Work/Life Balance Thing
As part of its annual Accounting 50 extravaganza, Vault comes out with rankings of accounting firms in 18 quality-of-life categories that fall under its “Best Accounting Firms to Work For” section. One of those categories is work/life balance. Based on the results of a survey sent to more than 10,000 accounting professionals, there are 25 […]
Let’s Enjoy a New Batch of Disgruntled 1-Star Reviews From Employees of Firms on the Vault Accounting 50 (2021)
On Vault Accounting 50 Day, Caleb used to delight in going through all the one-star employee reviews on Vault and highlighting some of the most cringeworthy, sad, and negative written about accounting firms. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you can click here and here. In my article on the 2020 Vault Accounting […]
The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: Plante Moran #21 (2020)
In the early days of Going Concern, when Caleb and Adrienne were expected to post like eight to 10 articles a day, Caleb used to cover the public accounting firms that made the yearly Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For rankings. Back then, it was the Big 4 and Plante & Moran, and that […]
Plante Moran Poaches Someone From KPMG and Issues a Press Release, Part I
Who knew KPMG would become a factory for cranking out future accounting firm chief marketing officers? Earlier this week we told you guys about Dixon Hughes Goodman recently hiring ex-KPMGer Danielle Cimato as its new CMO. And then yesterday, Plante Moran announced that former Klynveldian Marten van Pelt was hired to succeed partner Jeff Antaya […]
Plante Moran Adds 15 New Partners
Promotion Watch has landed in the Detroit ’burbs, where 15 men and women at top 15 firm Plante Moran have received their partner badges. Plante Moran’s partnership classes have gone up and down in numbers in recent years, kind of like Going Concern’s page views: 2018: 15 2017: 21 2016: 13 2015: 16 Much like […]
Oh Great, Public Accounting Discovered the Selfie Stick
The New York Times reported the arrival of the selfie stick in January of 2015. Then it stated that selfie sticks were mainstream in March. Then in July, it received the satirical Q&A treatment. Finally, in August there was the think piece. Yes, the selfie stick think piece. In other words, the rise and fall […]
Plante Moran Managing Partner: Accounting Profession Is Losing Too Much Talent
Gordon Krater, managing partner of Plante Moran, said something pret-tay, pret-tay, pret-tay interesting about the state of the accounting profession in this Detroit Free Press interview: "We can't afford to lose as much talent as the profession has been losing," Krater, 56, said during an interview in the firm's downtown Detroit offices. "There are really […]
The Secret to Plante Moran’s Success is a Jerk-Free Environment
Remember the Vault Accounting 50? And remember how Plante Moran would have swept it were it not for PwC's pesky prestige dominating the rankings? Well Plante Moran says its secret is a jerk-free environment: If you eliminate what outsiders think, Plante Moran and Friedman become a main focus of the study. Plante Moran was ranked […]
Plante Moran Is Significantly Better To Work For Than the Big 4, According to This
Once again, Colin buried this in ANR but it's worth shouting from the rooftops, at least for Plante Moran. These lists are bullshit as we all know but it is pretty significant that Plante Moran grabbed the #23 spot, especially after that embarrassing staff celebration party video we shared forever ago. Here's the press release […]
Good News For the Midwest’s Most Under-Recognized Accounting Firm: Chicks Dig Plante Moran
I guess for as sensitive as he is, Colin was just too busy writing about "man stuff" to announce this fantastic news from Plante Moran: Plante Moran, one of the nation’s largest certified public accounting and business advisory firms, was recently named by the Accounting MOVE Project as a 2013 Best Public Accounting Firm for […]
Twin Brothers Not Identical in the Eyes of Public Accounting Firms
When everyone else has an offer and you don't, maybe you're feeling like a reject. It's OK, darling, we still love you. Reach out and let's try to puzzle this out together, we promise we'll be nice. Unless you are in fact a loser, in which case we'll mock you but hey, that's the risk […]
Ten Embarrassing and Irrelevant Reasons Why Accounting Firms Suck at Advertising
One Disgruntled Employee is Not Impressed By Plante Moran’s Balloon Drops
We knew it was only a matter of time before the Debbie Downers started coming out of the woodwork to complain about Tuesday's announcement that Detroit's Plante Moran and Chicago's Blackman Kallick will be merging to create a firm to be reckoned with in the Midwest. One such Negative Nelly has a few sage […]
The Official Word on the Plante Moran/Blackman Kallick Merger
Well, it's official (told you so), the Plante Moran/Blackman Kallick merger is on. This will set up Chicago’s 7th largest accounting firm with more than 2,000 employees, 22 offices, and over $375M in combined revenue, which is not quite anything to sneeze at. Three local offices in Chicago will serve more than 5,000 clients, primarily […]
Plante Moran and Blackman Kallick Are Now In a Relationship
In today's firms you've probably never heard of if you aren't in the Midwest news, we've gotten word that Plante Moran will announce it's taking on Chicago firm Blackman Kallick as its new +1 at some point today. This should be pretty exciting for the Blackman Kallickers since Plante Moran has a great reputation (size […]
Dropping That Ampersand Appears to Have Hurt Plante Moran Standing in Latest Meaningless Best Companies to Work for Ranking
Because some people still care, here are the accounting firms that made the 2012 Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For: 37 (26) Plante Moran 48 (73) PwC 59 (77) Ernst & Young 67 (63) Deloitte 94 (86) KPMG PwC and Ernst & Young seem to be taking this shit seriously once again while Deloitte […]