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- Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Someone Finally Realized We Need to Groom Potential Partners; PwC’s 9th Straight Year of Not Screwing Up the Oscars | 3.16.26
- Friday Footnotes: PwC Aims to Hire Tons of Non-Accounting Talent Because Reasons; War or Not, Still Gotta Bill Those Hours | 3.13.26
- Ex-Accounting Firm Employee Arrested For Allegedly Inflating Her Hours
EY Is Now Paying a $10k CPA Bonus
Anyone in the mood for a bit of good news? Here goes: EY is doubling their CPA bonus for early career new hires who can manage to pass all four…
KPMG Allegedly Picked an Aussie to Rule Over the Global Empire
Although it hasn't yet been ratified nor publicized, sources have spilled beans to Financial Times and say Gary Wingrove is set to be KPMG's next global CEO, replacing Bill Thomas…
Layoff Watch ’26: PwC Goes on a Rampage Across Talent Acquisition
Respectfully, what is going on over at PwC? It feels like people have been getting cut left and right for months if not years. For today, we've got scoop on…
KPMG Brings Cheating Into the AI Age By Using AI to Cheat on AI Exams
The image is upside down because Australia. This story sounds like a joke but we assure you it is not. KPMG Australia has expanded KPMG's storied cheating repertoire by being…
EY Is Bumping Up a Financial Services Leader to the Big Assurance Chair
Saw this article by Bloomberg Law/Tax that said EY is getting a new assurance leader on April 1, went to look it up on the Google machine but EY's landing…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Someone Finally Realized We Need to Groom Potential Partners; PwC’s 9th Straight Year of Not Screwing Up the Oscars | 3.16.26
Yo and good morning. I've ventured out into the internet wilds and trapped you some news. In this news briefA New Bragging Point For DeloitteOh, We're Worried About the Partner…
Friday Footnotes: PwC Aims to Hire Tons of Non-Accounting Talent Because Reasons; War or Not, Still Gotta Bill Those Hours | 3.13.26
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. While you're here, subscribe to our newsletter to…
Ex-Accounting Firm Employee Arrested For Allegedly Inflating Her Hours
Got a story out of Pennsylvania today that will blow the socks off anyone who's in the habit of eating rather than inflating their hours (so, lots of you). Detectives…
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Taxpayer Gets Mad at Deloitte’s AI Use, Does Something About It; KPMG to Consolidate in Atlanta | 3.9.26
Morning! I've scraped up a little news for you so you can start your week off well-informed. We'll be starting with the bad news. In this news brief:Gen Z men…
Friday Footnotes: Enforcement Wasn’t the Word of the Year For the SEC and PCAOB; | 3.6.26
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. While you're here, subscribe to our newsletter to…
ICYMI: According to This AI CEO You Won’t Have to Go to Work in a Year
Commence to fantasizing about what you'll do with all that glorious free time when you lose your job to AI in 12-18 months because that's the confident prediction made by…
Another Early AI Accounting Startup Just Bit the Dust
TIL that early AI accounting platform Botkeeper has died. I found out via this CFO Brew article which pointed to a post on Botkeeper's own site. Turns out r/accounting was…
KPMG Brings Cheating Into the AI Age By Using AI to Cheat on AI Exams
The image is upside down because Australia. This story sounds like a joke but we assure you it is not. KPMG Australia has expanded KPMG's storied cheating repertoire by being…
KPMG Brings AI Talking Points to a Fee Negotiation, Inadvertently Opens a Pandora’s Box Filled With Stingy Clients
As reported by Financial Times on February 6, included in Friday's edition of Footnotes, and widely chuckled at by public accountants both current and former across the world since, KPMG…
Hackers Set Out to Ruin Tax Season Early For One Old-Ass Firm
'Tis the season. For alleged data breaches, that is. Cybernews is reporting that a Russian ransomware group called Lynx claims to have gotten its hands on a whole mess of…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | October 16, 2025
Struggling to Find Remote Accounting or Tax Talent? We’ve Got You Covered.If your firm or internal team is having a tough time sourcing qualified remote tax and accounting professionals, you're…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | October 2, 2025
Struggling to Find Remote Accounting or Tax Talent? We’ve Got You Covered.If your firm or internal team is having a tough time sourcing qualified remote tax and accounting professionals, you're…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | September 25, 2025
Struggling to Find Remote Accounting or Tax Talent? We’ve Got You Covered.If your firm or internal team is having a tough time sourcing qualified remote tax and accounting professionals, you're…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | September 18, 2025
Struggling to Find Remote Accounting or Tax Talent? We’ve Got You Covered.If your firm or internal team is having a tough time sourcing qualified remote tax and accounting professionals, you're…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | September 4, 2025
Struggling to Find Remote Accounting Talent? We’ve Got You Covered. If your firm or internal team is having a tough time sourcing qualified remote tax and accounting professionals, you're not…
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$100 says you don't know many accountants. They've been begging for this to happen since Obama was in office.
@LoganGrafTax $50 says you're an accountant praying to whatever God you worship that AI can't replace accountants.
Bad news if so, it will replace accountants.
Terrible story. The family of a 49-year-old EY partner who died last week while visiting New Orleans is asking for the public's help to put together his final hours:
PwC Australia said it's aiming for 50% of its 2027 Assurance intake to come from non-accounting backgrounds as "a response to two urgent challenges: a shortage of accounting talent and the rapidly changing demands brought on by AI and tech disruption."
Here Are Tax and Audit Salaries at Top 25, Top 300, and Regional Firms
Recruiting firm Brewer Morris has released its 2025 US CPA salary guide and should you want to read the whole thing you can request it from them here. Perhaps you,…
Friendly Reminder Not to Work Yourself to Death For This Profession
Saw this on the bird app yesterday and thought its message would be worth passing along what with 20 days remaining until April 15 and nerves as strained as ever…
Accounting Firm Abruptly Nopes Out of Tax Season Early (UPDATE)
Ed. note: An earlier version of this article's headline stated the sheriff is investigating. The Alexander County Sheriff's Office informed us they are not investigating, only fielding calls from the…
This Deloitte Office Has Eliminated Trash Cans at Desks to Make Staff Get Up Off Their Asses
Boston Business Journal wrote an article about Deloitte's new office in Boston and for some reason they chose to lead with this: You won’t find trash cans at the desks…
The IRS Decided to Troll Tax Pros For 10/15
We realize the decision to run maintenance on IRS systems likely isn't made by anyone who understands deadlines but surely someone who does could inform the IT department of these…
Top Remote Accounting Freelancers: February 3, 2024
Looking to staff up for a season or hire a freelancer for a project? Accountingfly is ready to partner with you! Gain full access to a pool of highly skilled…
10 Essential Project Management Principles for Accounting Firms
Every accounting firm struggles with project management, with smaller practices that are rapidly expanding taking the brunt of the damage. As your firm adds new clients, takes on more work,…
6 Ways Email is Secretly Destroying Your Accounting Firm
Email: The word itself sounds innocent, doesn't it? Kind of like "snail mail," but faster, sleeker, and without the slimy trail. But don't be fooled—email is secretly a sinister beast,…
Don’t Grow Your Accounting Firm Out of Business! Break Up With These Unscalable Practices Now
Business growth is always a high priority for accounting firms, especially small-to-midsize practices. Take care, though, because growth can be a double-edged sword. If your firm expands too quickly or…
Friday Footnotes: PwC Aims to Hire Tons of Non-Accounting Talent Because Reasons; War or Not, Still Gotta Bill Those Hours | 3.13.26
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans […]
Ex-Accounting Firm Employee Arrested For Allegedly Inflating Her Hours
Got a story out of Pennsylvania today that will blow the socks off anyone who’s […]
The 2026 IRS Dirty Dozen: Even Tax Scamming Is Being Automated Now
Although the IRS headcount has been slashed by 25%, thankfully there are still enough of […]
EY Is Now Paying a $10k CPA Bonus
Anyone in the mood for a bit of good news? Here goes: EY is doubling […]
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Taxpayer Gets Mad at Deloitte’s AI Use, Does Something About It; KPMG to Consolidate in Atlanta | 3.9.26
Morning! I’ve scraped up a little news for you so you can start your week […]
Friday Footnotes: Enforcement Wasn’t the Word of the Year For the SEC and PCAOB; | 3.6.26
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans […]
KPMG Allegedly Picked an Aussie to Rule Over the Global Empire
Although it hasn’t yet been ratified nor publicized, sources have spilled beans to Financial Times […]
The Global Accounting Profession, Now Featuring 1,000+ PE-Backed Firms
The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) has been working on some research related to private […]
Upload All Your Tax Information to Grok, What Could Go Wrong?
So Elon Musk just xeeted this, what do we think?
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The AICPA Looks at the Early Career; Senator Gets Mad at “Crooked” Tax Preparers | 3.2.26
Good morning and welcome to March! It’s going to be another one of those flew-right-past-me […]
Friday Footnotes: Deloitte Consolidates; Wild Rumors Fly About KPMG Clients’ Earnings | 2.27.26
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans […]
