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Friday Footnotes: Supposedly AI Isn’t Killing Offshore Hiring Yet; KPMG Cozies Up to Claude | 5.22.26
Starbucks Kills Off Its Automated Counting AI Tool After Just 9 Months Because It Sucked at Counting Beans
CBIZ Ends Its Employee Stock Purchase Program
Layoff Watch ’26: Deloitte Auditors Got Bad News This Week
Someone at Deloitte’s Atlanta Office Doesn’t Rerack the Gym Equipment
Evergrande Liquidators Want to Take an Extra Grande Bite Out of PwC’s Whole Pocket
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: How About That Entry Level Job Market!; The Failed Client That Could Cost PwC $8 Billion | 5.18.26
Friday Footnotes: PCAOB Plans to Take It Easy; Just Ignore Those CP53E Notices, Probably | 5.15.26
EY Gets Busted and Yeets Cybersecurity Report Littered With AI Hallucinations
Layoff Watch ’26: Grant Thornton Making Some Cuts This Week
Private Equity Took a Big Bite Out of Grant Thornton UK Profits
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big Payout for Grant Thornton; Is the SEC Elbowing Out the PCAOB? | 5.11.26
Friday Footnotes: KPMG Staff Not Happy With How Layoffs Were Handled; SEC Says PCAOB Should Toss Independence Rules | 5.8.26
In a Final Rule, Dept of Education Is Unswayed By the AICPA’s Strongly Worded Letters About the Meaning of Words
Plante Moran Goes South of the Border to Acquire a Firm in Mexico
Layoff Watch ’26: RSM Trims Down in Audit
SEC Says “What If We Just… Didn’t” on Quarterly Reporting
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Claude Starts a Turf War With Consulting; An Article About How Much Big 4 Sucks | 5.4.26
Friday Footnotes: Maybe Deloitte Doesn’t Need Employee Trust and Retention; Minnesota Wants to Tax Fraud at 100 Percent | 5.1.26
Layoff Watch ’26: KPMG Cuts 4% From Consulting
The Department of War Broke Up with KPMG, KPMG Gives Up Federal Audits Altogether
Layoff Watch ’26: Forvis Mazars Cuts 3% of the Workforce in Unusual Post-Busy Season Culling
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: 990s to Get a Facelift; DOJ Gets Busy Busting Fraud | 4.27.26
Friday Footnotes: Partners Taking Ls; PwC Eats a Big Ol’ Fine; A Post 4/20 IRS Surprise | 4.24.26
KPMG Shoves 10% of Its Audit Partners Out the Door
PwC Tells Remote Tax Staff to Get Their Butts Into the Office
KPMG Plans to Hand Routine Testing Off to AI
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: AI Boom Investor Fraud Off to a Strong Start; Do We Even Need Tax Pros? | 4.20.26
Friday Footnotes: PwC Partners Are Doing Great These Days; IRS Encourages Whistleblowing | 4.17.26
Deloitte to Slash Benefits For Non Client-Facing Staff
The IRS Delivered a Smooth Filing Season Again This Year, Says IRS
Uh Oh, PwC Is Up to Something
Faced With PR Nightmare Due to Email Mistake, Becker Chooses the “Fine, Everyone Wins” Option
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Tax Day Used to Be a Big Party; A Tale of Two PwCs | 4.13.26
Friday Footnotes: Feds Get a Tax Preparer in Their Biggest Pandemic Relief Bust Yet; AI Is Coming For Offshore Busy Work | 4.10.26
Apparently Shouting “Promote Me! Promote Me!” in a Partner’s Face Can Get You Promoted at Deloitte
AI Will Be EY Auditors’ New BFF, According to EY
Once Again, a Mid-Tier Firm Beat Out Big 4 on This ‘Best Companies’ List
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: You Can’t Spell Audit Without AI; An Elaborate Scheme to Defraud the Air Force | 4.6.26
Friday Footnotes: EY Tells Tax to Get Back in the Office; Associates Are Vibe Coding Now | 4.3.26
That Time Researchers Discovered Accounting Firms Would Rather Die Than Publish Salaries
The IRS Is Supposedly Hiring Again
Layoff Watch ’26: The King’s KPMG Kindly Asks 600 Auditors to GTFO
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Asks Hundreds of People to Go; One Big Beautiful Bill Equals Billable Hours | 3.30.26
Friday Footnotes: EY Socks Away a Bunch of Money For Future Fines; Can You Leave at 5 and Still Make Partner? | 3.27.26
The Top 20 Firm That Kicked Off PE Madness in 2021 and Its PE Firm Announce They’ll Keep Kickin’ It
A KPMG Senior Director Got Beat Up By a Guy Who Stars in Reacher
You’ll Never Guess Who’s Most Likely to Get Tax Scammed
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: One EYer Was Very Determined to Cheat; How Can You Not Know You Don’t Get Overtime? | 3.23.26
Friday Footnotes: PwC CEO Issues a Stern Threat to Luddite Partners; Compliance Startup Gets Slaughtered on Substack | 3.20.26
Tax Prep But Make It Catchy
Oh So We’re Actually Going to Get Rid of Quarterly Reporting After All Huh
KPMG Picked an Aussie to Rule Over the Global Empire [UPDATED]
Deloitte Runs a Photo Competition??
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
The 2026 IRS Dirty Dozen: Even Tax Scamming Is Being Automated Now
EY Is Now Paying a $10k CPA Bonus
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
Friday Footnotes: Enforcement Wasn’t the Word of the Year For the SEC and PCAOB; | 3.6.26
The Global Accounting Profession, Now Featuring 1,000+ PE-Backed Firms
Upload All Your Tax Information to Grok, What Could Go Wrong?
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The AICPA Looks at the Early Career; Senator Gets Mad at “Crooked” Tax Preparers | 3.2.26
Friday Footnotes: Deloitte Consolidates; Wild Rumors Fly About KPMG Clients’ Earnings | 2.27.26
Layoff Watch ’26: PwC Goes on a Rampage Across Talent Acquisition
Two Global Mid-Tiers Aren’t Doing Too Shabby on Global Revenue and Growth These Days
ICYMI: According to This AI CEO You Won’t Have to Go to Work in a Year
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Firm Scraps Failed 4-Day Workweek Experiment; Tariff Decision Makes Even More Work for Accountants | 2.23.26
Friday Footnotes: Deloitte Adds Up All the Rocket Launchers; Wait, So ERC Is Done For Real? | 2.20.26
Should We Be Concerned That More Than Half of New CPA Licenses Issued in This State Last Year Went to International Candidates?
Another Early AI Accounting Startup Just Bit the Dust
KPMG Brings Cheating Into the AI Age By Using AI to Cheat on AI Exams
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EYers Complain Pettily About a Colleague’s Gift; Accountants Grow Impatient About AI Threats | 2.16.26
Friday Footnotes: Italian Tax Cops Go Sniffing Around KPMG’s Office; Depreciation Is AI’s Latest Victim | 2.13.26
EY Is Bumping Up a Financial Services Leader to the Big Assurance Chair
The IRS Is Shuffling Even More Inexperienced People Into Key Filing Season Roles and Just Hoping For the Best
KPMG Brings AI Talking Points to a Fee Negotiation, Inadvertently Opens a Pandora’s Box Filled With Stingy Clients
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Concentrates New Hires in a Handful of Offices; Accounting as STEM Bill Gains a New Fan | 2.9.26
Friday Footnotes: Bill Wants to Turn Accounting STEM; Goodwill is Back on the Agenda | 2.6.26
ICYMI: 40-Year EY Veteran Picked to Chair the PCAOB
Another Big 4 Ditches Their Executive Assistants For Offshore Ones Instead
The AICPA Gets the “Professional” Validation They Wanted, Early Career Pipeline Still on Fire
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: This Doesn’t Bode Well For Accounting Graduate Hiring; Firm’s Failure to Secure Private Equity Could Be a Sign | 2.2.26
Friday Footnotes: Departing EY Partner Clowns Firm Leadership in His Farewell Email; PwC Doesn’t Care About Your AI Agents | 1.30.26
It Seems People Are Still Confused About How to Handle Our First Tax Season Without Checks
CPA Exam Discipline Testing Extended For Candidates Disrupted By the Snow Storm
Dear IRS, Give Us the Practitioner Party Line NOW
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Treasury Abruptly Yeets Booz Allen Hamilton Contracts; Rockstar Accountant Dies at 87 | 1.26.26
Friday Footnotes: Deloitte to Hire 50,000 More Indians; Regulator Accuses EY and PwC Execs, Two Private Equity Firms of Insider Naughtiness | 1.23.26
This Snow Storm is Definitely Going to Screw Things Up For CPA Candidates
Eight Years After Carillion Went Tits Up, Audit Reform is Dead
Florida Man Proposes a 50% Tax on Feet Pics and Booty Shaking
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: What Makes People Leave Public Accounting; Indian Big 4 Manager Goes Off | 1.19.26
Friday Footnotes: The World Discovers Sexy Accountants Do Exist; Ex-IRS Employee Did Something Really, Really Dumb | 1.16.26
IRS and SBA Employee Allegedly Ran Pandemic Fraud Ring Right Out in the Open on Instagram
What Do We Think About Aprio’s New Catchphrase?
Audit Firm Runs Afoul of PCAOB Rules By Taking Same As Last Year Way Too Literally
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Wait, WHO Got a DoJ Subpoena??; EPA Breaks a Long Clean Audit Streak | 1.12.26
Friday Footnotes: Offshore Staff Figured Out They’re Underpaid; The IRS Has Set a Date For Filing Season 2026 | 1.9.26
Accountant, 37, Murdered in Jamaica After Texting Sister: ‘Call the Cops’
Karen Waga Named AAM’s 2026 Marketer of the Year
Regulatory Complexity is Top Tax Risk Heading Into the Next 12 Months, BDO USA Survey Finds
Taxes and Marriage: Innocent Spouse Relief Isn’t Guaranteed Forever
Inflation Angst Spreads as Consumers Spooked by Rising Gas Bills
Businesses Say They Want to Hire, But Are Having Trouble Finding Qualified Talent
Sales Grew in April Despite High Gas Prices and Sustained Inflation
How Much of ‘Survivor 50′ Champion’s Winnings—the Biggest Prize in Show History—Will Go to Taxes?
Intuit Sees Worst Plunge Since 2003 After Announcing Layoffs
Intuit: Job Cuts ‘Not Driven by AI Replacing Employees’
Automatic Retirement Plans Spread as States, Cities Push Workers to Build Nest Eggs
5 Tax Planning Moves to Make Due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Intuit QuickBooks Workforce: A New Era of Human Capital Management and an Advisory Opportunity for Accounting Firms
Show Your Client’s Support for Education by Encouraging Them to Donate Excess Inventory
Nominations Open for 2026 Tax & Accounting Innovation Awards
Intuit to Phase Out ProAdvisor Program Next Year, Launch ProPartner Accountants
Friday Footnotes: Supposedly AI Isn’t Killing Offshore Hiring Yet; KPMG Cozies Up to Claude | 5.22.26
Starbucks Kills Off Its Automated Counting AI Tool After Just 9 Months Because It Sucked at Counting Beans
CBIZ Ends Its Employee Stock Purchase Program
Layoff Watch ’26: Deloitte Auditors Got Bad News This Week
Someone at Deloitte’s Atlanta Office Doesn’t Rerack the Gym Equipment
Evergrande Liquidators Want to Take an Extra Grande Bite Out of PwC’s Whole Pocket
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: How About That Entry Level Job Market!; The Failed Client That Could Cost PwC $8 Billion | 5.18.26
Friday Footnotes: PCAOB Plans to Take It Easy; Just Ignore Those CP53E Notices, Probably | 5.15.26
EY Gets Busted and Yeets Cybersecurity Report Littered With AI Hallucinations
Layoff Watch ’26: Grant Thornton Making Some Cuts This Week
Private Equity Took a Big Bite Out of Grant Thornton UK Profits
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big Payout for Grant Thornton; Is the SEC Elbowing Out the PCAOB? | 5.11.26
Friday Footnotes: KPMG Staff Not Happy With How Layoffs Were Handled; SEC Says PCAOB Should Toss Independence Rules | 5.8.26
In a Final Rule, Dept of Education Is Unswayed By the AICPA’s Strongly Worded Letters About the Meaning of Words
Plante Moran Goes South of the Border to Acquire a Firm in Mexico
Layoff Watch ’26: RSM Trims Down in Audit
SEC Says “What If We Just… Didn’t” on Quarterly Reporting
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Claude Starts a Turf War With Consulting; An Article About How Much Big 4 Sucks | 5.4.26
Friday Footnotes: Maybe Deloitte Doesn’t Need Employee Trust and Retention; Minnesota Wants to Tax Fraud at 100 Percent | 5.1.26
Layoff Watch ’26: KPMG Cuts 4% From Consulting
The Department of War Broke Up with KPMG, KPMG Gives Up Federal Audits Altogether
Layoff Watch ’26: Forvis Mazars Cuts 3% of the Workforce in Unusual Post-Busy Season Culling
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: 990s to Get a Facelift; DOJ Gets Busy Busting Fraud | 4.27.26
Friday Footnotes: Partners Taking Ls; PwC Eats a Big Ol’ Fine; A Post 4/20 IRS Surprise | 4.24.26
KPMG Shoves 10% of Its Audit Partners Out the Door
PwC Tells Remote Tax Staff to Get Their Butts Into the Office
KPMG Plans to Hand Routine Testing Off to AI
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: AI Boom Investor Fraud Off to a Strong Start; Do We Even Need Tax Pros? | 4.20.26
Friday Footnotes: PwC Partners Are Doing Great These Days; IRS Encourages Whistleblowing | 4.17.26
Deloitte to Slash Benefits For Non Client-Facing Staff
The IRS Delivered a Smooth Filing Season Again This Year, Says IRS
Uh Oh, PwC Is Up to Something
Faced With PR Nightmare Due to Email Mistake, Becker Chooses the “Fine, Everyone Wins” Option
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Tax Day Used to Be a Big Party; A Tale of Two PwCs | 4.13.26
Friday Footnotes: Feds Get a Tax Preparer in Their Biggest Pandemic Relief Bust Yet; AI Is Coming For Offshore Busy Work | 4.10.26
Apparently Shouting “Promote Me! Promote Me!” in a Partner’s Face Can Get You Promoted at Deloitte
AI Will Be EY Auditors’ New BFF, According to EY
Once Again, a Mid-Tier Firm Beat Out Big 4 on This ‘Best Companies’ List
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: You Can’t Spell Audit Without AI; An Elaborate Scheme to Defraud the Air Force | 4.6.26
Friday Footnotes: EY Tells Tax to Get Back in the Office; Associates Are Vibe Coding Now | 4.3.26
That Time Researchers Discovered Accounting Firms Would Rather Die Than Publish Salaries
The IRS Is Supposedly Hiring Again
Layoff Watch ’26: The King’s KPMG Kindly Asks 600 Auditors to GTFO
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Asks Hundreds of People to Go; One Big Beautiful Bill Equals Billable Hours | 3.30.26
Friday Footnotes: EY Socks Away a Bunch of Money For Future Fines; Can You Leave at 5 and Still Make Partner? | 3.27.26
The Top 20 Firm That Kicked Off PE Madness in 2021 and Its PE Firm Announce They’ll Keep Kickin’ It
A KPMG Senior Director Got Beat Up By a Guy Who Stars in Reacher
You’ll Never Guess Who’s Most Likely to Get Tax Scammed
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: One EYer Was Very Determined to Cheat; How Can You Not Know You Don’t Get Overtime? | 3.23.26
Friday Footnotes: PwC CEO Issues a Stern Threat to Luddite Partners; Compliance Startup Gets Slaughtered on Substack | 3.20.26
Tax Prep But Make It Catchy
Oh So We’re Actually Going to Get Rid of Quarterly Reporting After All Huh
KPMG Picked an Aussie to Rule Over the Global Empire [UPDATED]
Deloitte Runs a Photo Competition??
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
The 2026 IRS Dirty Dozen: Even Tax Scamming Is Being Automated Now
EY Is Now Paying a $10k CPA Bonus
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
Friday Footnotes: Enforcement Wasn’t the Word of the Year For the SEC and PCAOB; | 3.6.26
The Global Accounting Profession, Now Featuring 1,000+ PE-Backed Firms
Upload All Your Tax Information to Grok, What Could Go Wrong?
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The AICPA Looks at the Early Career; Senator Gets Mad at “Crooked” Tax Preparers | 3.2.26
Friday Footnotes: Deloitte Consolidates; Wild Rumors Fly About KPMG Clients’ Earnings | 2.27.26
Layoff Watch ’26: PwC Goes on a Rampage Across Talent Acquisition
Two Global Mid-Tiers Aren’t Doing Too Shabby on Global Revenue and Growth These Days
ICYMI: According to This AI CEO You Won’t Have to Go to Work in a Year
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Firm Scraps Failed 4-Day Workweek Experiment; Tariff Decision Makes Even More Work for Accountants | 2.23.26
Friday Footnotes: Deloitte Adds Up All the Rocket Launchers; Wait, So ERC Is Done For Real? | 2.20.26
Should We Be Concerned That More Than Half of New CPA Licenses Issued in This State Last Year Went to International Candidates?
Another Early AI Accounting Startup Just Bit the Dust
KPMG Brings Cheating Into the AI Age By Using AI to Cheat on AI Exams
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EYers Complain Pettily About a Colleague’s Gift; Accountants Grow Impatient About AI Threats | 2.16.26
Friday Footnotes: Italian Tax Cops Go Sniffing Around KPMG’s Office; Depreciation Is AI’s Latest Victim | 2.13.26
EY Is Bumping Up a Financial Services Leader to the Big Assurance Chair
The IRS Is Shuffling Even More Inexperienced People Into Key Filing Season Roles and Just Hoping For the Best
KPMG Brings AI Talking Points to a Fee Negotiation, Inadvertently Opens a Pandora’s Box Filled With Stingy Clients
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Concentrates New Hires in a Handful of Offices; Accounting as STEM Bill Gains a New Fan | 2.9.26
Friday Footnotes: Bill Wants to Turn Accounting STEM; Goodwill is Back on the Agenda | 2.6.26
ICYMI: 40-Year EY Veteran Picked to Chair the PCAOB
Another Big 4 Ditches Their Executive Assistants For Offshore Ones Instead
The AICPA Gets the “Professional” Validation They Wanted, Early Career Pipeline Still on Fire
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: This Doesn’t Bode Well For Accounting Graduate Hiring; Firm’s Failure to Secure Private Equity Could Be a Sign | 2.2.26
Friday Footnotes: Departing EY Partner Clowns Firm Leadership in His Farewell Email; PwC Doesn’t Care About Your AI Agents | 1.30.26
It Seems People Are Still Confused About How to Handle Our First Tax Season Without Checks
CPA Exam Discipline Testing Extended For Candidates Disrupted By the Snow Storm
Dear IRS, Give Us the Practitioner Party Line NOW
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Treasury Abruptly Yeets Booz Allen Hamilton Contracts; Rockstar Accountant Dies at 87 | 1.26.26
Friday Footnotes: Deloitte to Hire 50,000 More Indians; Regulator Accuses EY and PwC Execs, Two Private Equity Firms of Insider Naughtiness | 1.23.26
This Snow Storm is Definitely Going to Screw Things Up For CPA Candidates
Eight Years After Carillion Went Tits Up, Audit Reform is Dead
Florida Man Proposes a 50% Tax on Feet Pics and Booty Shaking
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: What Makes People Leave Public Accounting; Indian Big 4 Manager Goes Off | 1.19.26
Friday Footnotes: The World Discovers Sexy Accountants Do Exist; Ex-IRS Employee Did Something Really, Really Dumb | 1.16.26
IRS and SBA Employee Allegedly Ran Pandemic Fraud Ring Right Out in the Open on Instagram
What Do We Think About Aprio’s New Catchphrase?
Audit Firm Runs Afoul of PCAOB Rules By Taking Same As Last Year Way Too Literally
Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Wait, WHO Got a DoJ Subpoena??; EPA Breaks a Long Clean Audit Streak | 1.12.26
Friday Footnotes: Offshore Staff Figured Out They’re Underpaid; The IRS Has Set a Date For Filing Season 2026 | 1.9.26
Accountant, 37, Murdered in Jamaica After Texting Sister: ‘Call the Cops’
Karen Waga Named AAM’s 2026 Marketer of the Year
Regulatory Complexity is Top Tax Risk Heading Into the Next 12 Months, BDO USA Survey Finds
Taxes and Marriage: Innocent Spouse Relief Isn’t Guaranteed Forever
Inflation Angst Spreads as Consumers Spooked by Rising Gas Bills
Businesses Say They Want to Hire, But Are Having Trouble Finding Qualified Talent
Sales Grew in April Despite High Gas Prices and Sustained Inflation
How Much of ‘Survivor 50′ Champion’s Winnings—the Biggest Prize in Show History—Will Go to Taxes?
Intuit Sees Worst Plunge Since 2003 After Announcing Layoffs
Intuit: Job Cuts ‘Not Driven by AI Replacing Employees’
Automatic Retirement Plans Spread as States, Cities Push Workers to Build Nest Eggs
5 Tax Planning Moves to Make Due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Intuit QuickBooks Workforce: A New Era of Human Capital Management and an Advisory Opportunity for Accounting Firms
Show Your Client’s Support for Education by Encouraging Them to Donate Excess Inventory
Nominations Open for 2026 Tax & Accounting Innovation Awards
Intuit to Phase Out ProAdvisor Program Next Year, Launch ProPartner Accountants
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