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Friday Footnotes: Internal Auditors Are All In on AI; KPMG Australia Takes a Few More Ls | 10.23.26 Public Accounting Salaries Are Projected to Get a Paltry 1.8% Bump in 2027 PwC Ekes Past EY With $60.2 Billion in Reported Global Revenue Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Deloitte Starts the Week With Layoffs; AI Agent Audits Are Here | 10.19.26 Friday Footnotes: Career Ladder is Out, Career Playground Is In; AI Ranks as Leading Ethical Challenge Facing Accountants | 10.16.26 Finance Leaders Are Shopping for a CAS Partner, and They Brought a List KPMG Australia Has Made a List of Things It Probably Should Have Done Already EY Didn’t Do Too Bad Last Year Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Might Be Moving in Chicago; Hope You Like Sales | 10.12.26 Friday Footnotes: Accounting Education Could Use a Catch Up; Whistleblower Says IRS Leaked His Tax Records | 10.9.26 The King’s Deloitte Got Hit With a £6 Million Fine and a Homework Assignment For Questionable Auditing Georgia Accountants Picked a Fight With Hunger and Won Scandal-Embattled KPMG Australia Hits Up the Global Body to Borrow a Few Bucks Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Learns It’s Good to Have Friends in High Places; One Step Closer to Robots Taking Over | 10.5.26 Friday Footnotes: Deloitte Predicts AI Will Prop Up a Blah Economy; Wait, Hostages Were Racking Up Tax Penalties All This Time? | 10.2.26 RSM Is Allegedly Thinking About an IPO Bill Gates Predicts AI Will Be Taking Clients’ Most Tedious Questions 24/7 Within a Few Years Deloitte Saw Another Year of Single-Digit Growth, a Respectable $74.5 Billion in Revenue Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: They’re Begging Firms to Hire Grads Now; Who Wants to Be a CFO Anyway | 9.28.26 Friday Footnotes: KPMG Puts Up Money For Excellence in Accounting; The Secret to a Promotion Is Never Saying No | 9.25.26 The AICPA Wants Tax Pros to Take a Hit From Its New AI Risk CART Another Accounting Firm Is Getting Into the Law Business EY GDS Philippines Turns 11, Celebrates By Planning to Hire An Additional 2,000 People Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: AI Is Making Clients Even Worse; India’s Still Working on Homebrew Big 4 | 9.21.26 Friday Footnotes: PwC Bonuses Take a Hit; EY Thinks It Has a Slick Return to Office Trick | 9.18.26 Good News, Accountants: The Robots Need Your Help Revenue Is Down For the First Time in 17 Years But at Least Partners Got a Raise at PwC UK Deloitte Survey: A Lot of People Are Using Clandestine AI at Work Pentagon Says What If We Just Used GAAP Expense Management: Because Apparently Clients Will Pay You to Make Expense Reports Suck Less Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC US and PwC India BFF Up; Fake CPA With a Tax Startup Arrested on Her Way to a Cruise | 9.14.26 Friday Footnotes: KPMG Audits Extremely Lucky For One Polymarket User; Ex-PwC CEO’s Dick Pic Finally Settled | 9.11.26 EY Got the Big Pentagon Audit Job For Firms, Growth is Down But Profitability Is Up AICPA Pushes Back on IRS Suggesting CPAs Should Charge Less If They’re Using AI Tuesday Morning Accounting News Brief: Hedge Fund Audit Earns Deloitte a Lawsuit; Auditor Rotation Not Popular Idea With Big 4 | 9.8.26 ICYMI: RSM Is Apparently Pushing Back Start Dates For Associates Friday Footnotes: CFOs Are Getting Younger These Days; AI Pushes One Firm to Hire, Keeps Audit Fees Down | 9.4.26 Chief Operating Officer Punted From the Partnership Post-Audit Scandal Sues KPMG Big 4 Climate Activism Has a Pretty Convenient Revenue Stream, Say 16 State AGs in Tedious Letter to Firms EY Is Rolling Out Nebulous New Rewards Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Some Messy Stuff Coming Out From Under KPMG’s Rug; Baby Consultants Expected to Show Their Faces | 8.31.26 Friday Footnotes: Salaries Are Slipping at the Staff Level; PwC International Not Off the Hook in Evergrande Lawsuit | 8.28.26 Bill Gates Proposes a Tokens and Robots Tax Deloitte’s DEI Goals Ended Up Slightly More Expensive Than Anticipated India’s Still Talking About Making Their Own Consulting Firms to Compete With Big 4 After Consulting Takes a Double-Digit Revenue Hit, KPMG Australia Cuts Workforce By 5 Percent Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The Newspaper Says It’s Probably For the Best If You Got Laid Off From KPMG; IRS Employee Union Has Beef With CEO Role | 8.24.26 Compensation Watch ’26: EY Raises and Promotions Feel Marginally Less Bad This Year Weekend Discussion: Intern Offers Are Down But Also Up Friday Footnotes: Firm in Whistleblower Scandal Ends Whistleblower Service For Clients; Evergrande Liquidators Mad at Regulators For Settling | 8.21.26 EY Is Giving Audit Interns 8 to 12 Months to Prove They’re Useful The IRS is Looking For a Few Good Special Agents Sandy Torchia is Out, Jason LaRue is in as Vice Chair of Talent & Culture at KPMG The PCAOB Won’t Be Wagging Their Disappointed Finger at Big 4 Firms This Year Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: No More Traditional Audit Internships at EY; Guy Has Some Choice Words For Big 4 | 8.17.26 Friday Footnotes: IT Manager at Stole 423 Deloitte Laptops to Fund His Stock Trading Addiction; AI Agents at EY to Get Their Own Executive Manager | 8.14.26 The IRS’s Drug-Free Workforce Plan Tested Positive For Low Effort Firms (and Some Guy Obsessed With China) Have Weighed in on the PCAOB Turning an Eye to AI Audit Leaders Currently in the “Throw AI at the Wall and See What Sticks” Phase Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: NYT Puts Big 4 Tax Strategy Out There; You Mean to Say KPMG Fudged the Truth!? | 8.10.26 Friday Footnotes: Archaeologists Dig Up 1,600-Year-Old Tax Fraud; Forget Ja Rule, Let’s Ask KPMG Interns What They Think | 8.7.26 PwC CEO Said He’s Cool With It If His Kids Want to Go Into Consulting IPA’s Top 500 Is Out and Everybody’s Measuring Jason Girzadas and Lara Abrash Both Score a Second Term at Deloitte US Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Chief Purpose Officer Dips Out of KPMG Dumpster Fire; EY Teases a New Quantum Computer | 8.3.26 Friday Footnotes: EY Silently Blocks Tokenmaxxing; Uniting Across the Aisle to Make the IRS Report Wait Times | 7.31.26 Layoff Watch ’26: KPMG Australia May or May Not Be Letting 1,000 People Go EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client (UPDATE)Well Here’s a Surprise: Grant Thornton is Buying CBIZ For $5 Billion In Case You Didn’t Hear, PwC Interns Won’t Be Swarming Disney World This Year Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Do More Work to Get More Work, Says PwC Leader; Can You Teach Interns to Think? | 7.27.26 Friday Footnotes: Regulators Turn Their Eye to Offshoring; Auditors Ask “Is It Incompetence or Is It Fraud?” | 7.24.26 Grant Thornton Wants to Get Back on the Audit A Team Treasury Says Cool It on the 351 Conversions Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Baker Tilly Looking at Debt Markets; PwC Partners to Take Home More Than a Mil | 7.20.26 Friday Footnotes: OpenAI CFO Says Don’t Sweat Token Costs; Seems Everyone and Their Manager Is Polishing Up Resumes | 7.17.26 Bonus Watch ’26: No Bonuses at BDO?Congratulations to This Tiny 673-Person Town on Earning a Spot in Future Fraud Training Slides Note to PwC Partners: Don’t Tell Reporters You Plan to Divorce Your Wife to Hide Assets After an Audit Scandal Layoff Watch ’26: Big Cuts Are Coming at KPMG Australia Turns Out Firms Don’t Like It When You Offshore Yourself Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Lets the PCAOB Know They’re in Some Trouble; Accenture Experiences an “Isolated Matter” | 7.13.26 Friday Footnotes: PwC Lays Off in Audit, KPMG Makes Back Office Cuts; AI Company Wants Guidance From the PCAOB | 7.10.26 Big 4 Firm With AI Quotas Unironically Explains Why AI Quotas Are Such a Terrible Idea in Latest Survey Activist Investor Tells CBIZ They Need More Acquisitions in Their Life Beware This Hot New Scam: LinkedIn Job Hunt Takes a Sharp Detour Into Attempted Bank Emptying Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Cool It on the Scandals, Students Are Watching; Quarterly Reporting Proposal Overwhelmingly Opposed | 7.6.26 The SEC’s Quarterly Reporting Proposal Is Catnip for Comment Letter Writers, Investors Not So Much EY Consultant Discovers One Weird Trick to Never Work in Banking Again, Or Big 4 For That Matter North Carolina Board of Certified Public Accountant Examiners Makes a Persuasive Argument Against Paper KPMG May Have Gotten Big 4 Into Big, Big Trouble in Australia Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Insists Candidates Enjoy Their AI Avatar; Guy at Deloitte’s Grandma Has Something She Can Put on the Fridge | 6.29.26 Friday Footnotes: Amateur Forensic Accounting Not Appreciated By Local Parks Department; KPMG Getting Dogged | 6.26.26 In New AI Guidelines, IRS Politely Suggests You Not Make Up Sources Like Deloitte Did Top 20 Firm Eide Bailly Gets on the Private Equity Train The Big 4 Model Might Be Cooked Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Gave Us a Reason to Mention GTA 6; The Bad KPMG Anecdotes Are Adding Up | 6.22.26 Friday Footnotes: Deloitte UK Asks Nearly 200 Auditors to Please F Off; AI Chatbots Favored Over Actual Accountants | 6.19.26 Layoff Watch ’26: EY Trims Some Newbies in Audit MFA Fatigue Is Real. Turning It Off Is Not an Option for Tax and Accounting Firms.ClicData Launches MCP Server to Bring Trusted Business Data to AI Assistants for Midmarket Teams Three Rules for Junior Accountants Competing With AI BDO and National Wildlife Federation Partner to Protect Habitats The Future of Your Tax Practice is Connected. Here’s Your Path Forward CCH Axcess Adds Agentic AI for Tax Preparation Tax Court Tears Down Deductions for Historic Structure Easements MYCPE ONE Rolls Out Tax Preparation Services Support for Canadian CPA Firms Forvis Mazars Helps Special Olympics Athletes Embrace Health, Wellness, and Opportunity 7% of Older Americans Say Working is Still Financially Necessary Klarna and TaxDome Partner for Payment Flexibility for Accounting Firms CFOs Cite AI Cost-Governance Gaps in Survey Smarsh Expands Solutions for AI, Cyber, and Third-Party Risk FlexTecs Launches Invoice Compliance for AP Workflow Why AI Requires CPAs to Look Beyond Traditional Risk Scores From Backlog to Breakthrough: Why Manual Dispute Reconciliation is a Liability for Financial Institutions Friday Footnotes: Internal Auditors Are All In on AI; KPMG Australia Takes a Few More Ls | 10.23.26 Public Accounting Salaries Are Projected to Get a Paltry 1.8% Bump in 2027 PwC Ekes Past EY With $60.2 Billion in Reported Global Revenue Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Deloitte Starts the Week With Layoffs; AI Agent Audits Are Here | 10.19.26 Friday Footnotes: Career Ladder is Out, Career Playground Is In; AI Ranks as Leading Ethical Challenge Facing Accountants | 10.16.26 Finance Leaders Are Shopping for a CAS Partner, and They Brought a List KPMG Australia Has Made a List of Things It Probably Should Have Done Already EY Didn’t Do Too Bad Last Year Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Might Be Moving in Chicago; Hope You Like Sales | 10.12.26 Friday Footnotes: Accounting Education Could Use a Catch Up; Whistleblower Says IRS Leaked His Tax Records | 10.9.26 The King’s Deloitte Got Hit With a £6 Million Fine and a Homework Assignment For Questionable Auditing Georgia Accountants Picked a Fight With Hunger and Won Scandal-Embattled KPMG Australia Hits Up the Global Body to Borrow a Few Bucks Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Learns It’s Good to Have Friends in High Places; One Step Closer to Robots Taking Over | 10.5.26 Friday Footnotes: Deloitte Predicts AI Will Prop Up a Blah Economy; Wait, Hostages Were Racking Up Tax Penalties All This Time? | 10.2.26 RSM Is Allegedly Thinking About an IPO Bill Gates Predicts AI Will Be Taking Clients’ Most Tedious Questions 24/7 Within a Few Years Deloitte Saw Another Year of Single-Digit Growth, a Respectable $74.5 Billion in Revenue Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: They’re Begging Firms to Hire Grads Now; Who Wants to Be a CFO Anyway | 9.28.26 Friday Footnotes: KPMG Puts Up Money For Excellence in Accounting; The Secret to a Promotion Is Never Saying No | 9.25.26 The AICPA Wants Tax Pros to Take a Hit From Its New AI Risk CART Another Accounting Firm Is Getting Into the Law Business EY GDS Philippines Turns 11, Celebrates By Planning to Hire An Additional 2,000 People Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: AI Is Making Clients Even Worse; India’s Still Working on Homebrew Big 4 | 9.21.26 Friday Footnotes: PwC Bonuses Take a Hit; EY Thinks It Has a Slick Return to Office Trick | 9.18.26 Good News, Accountants: The Robots Need Your Help Revenue Is Down For the First Time in 17 Years But at Least Partners Got a Raise at PwC UK Deloitte Survey: A Lot of People Are Using Clandestine AI at Work Pentagon Says What If We Just Used GAAP Expense Management: Because Apparently Clients Will Pay You to Make Expense Reports Suck Less Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC US and PwC India BFF Up; Fake CPA With a Tax Startup Arrested on Her Way to a Cruise | 9.14.26 Friday Footnotes: KPMG Audits Extremely Lucky For One Polymarket User; Ex-PwC CEO’s Dick Pic Finally Settled | 9.11.26 EY Got the Big Pentagon Audit Job For Firms, Growth is Down But Profitability Is Up AICPA Pushes Back on IRS Suggesting CPAs Should Charge Less If They’re Using AI Tuesday Morning Accounting News Brief: Hedge Fund Audit Earns Deloitte a Lawsuit; Auditor Rotation Not Popular Idea With Big 4 | 9.8.26 ICYMI: RSM Is Apparently Pushing Back Start Dates For Associates Friday Footnotes: CFOs Are Getting Younger These Days; AI Pushes One Firm to Hire, Keeps Audit Fees Down | 9.4.26 Chief Operating Officer Punted From the Partnership Post-Audit Scandal Sues KPMG Big 4 Climate Activism Has a Pretty Convenient Revenue Stream, Say 16 State AGs in Tedious Letter to Firms EY Is Rolling Out Nebulous New Rewards Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Some Messy Stuff Coming Out From Under KPMG’s Rug; Baby Consultants Expected to Show Their Faces | 8.31.26 Friday Footnotes: Salaries Are Slipping at the Staff Level; PwC International Not Off the Hook in Evergrande Lawsuit | 8.28.26 Bill Gates Proposes a Tokens and Robots Tax Deloitte’s DEI Goals Ended Up Slightly More Expensive Than Anticipated India’s Still Talking About Making Their Own Consulting Firms to Compete With Big 4 After Consulting Takes a Double-Digit Revenue Hit, KPMG Australia Cuts Workforce By 5 Percent Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The Newspaper Says It’s Probably For the Best If You Got Laid Off From KPMG; IRS Employee Union Has Beef With CEO Role | 8.24.26 Compensation Watch ’26: EY Raises and Promotions Feel Marginally Less Bad This Year Weekend Discussion: Intern Offers Are Down But Also Up Friday Footnotes: Firm in Whistleblower Scandal Ends Whistleblower Service For Clients; Evergrande Liquidators Mad at Regulators For Settling | 8.21.26 EY Is Giving Audit Interns 8 to 12 Months to Prove They’re Useful The IRS is Looking For a Few Good Special Agents Sandy Torchia is Out, Jason LaRue is in as Vice Chair of Talent & Culture at KPMG The PCAOB Won’t Be Wagging Their Disappointed Finger at Big 4 Firms This Year Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: No More Traditional Audit Internships at EY; Guy Has Some Choice Words For Big 4 | 8.17.26 Friday Footnotes: IT Manager at Stole 423 Deloitte Laptops to Fund His Stock Trading Addiction; AI Agents at EY to Get Their Own Executive Manager | 8.14.26 The IRS’s Drug-Free Workforce Plan Tested Positive For Low Effort Firms (and Some Guy Obsessed With China) Have Weighed in on the PCAOB Turning an Eye to AI Audit Leaders Currently in the “Throw AI at the Wall and See What Sticks” Phase Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: NYT Puts Big 4 Tax Strategy Out There; You Mean to Say KPMG Fudged the Truth!? | 8.10.26 Friday Footnotes: Archaeologists Dig Up 1,600-Year-Old Tax Fraud; Forget Ja Rule, Let’s Ask KPMG Interns What They Think | 8.7.26 PwC CEO Said He’s Cool With It If His Kids Want to Go Into Consulting IPA’s Top 500 Is Out and Everybody’s Measuring Jason Girzadas and Lara Abrash Both Score a Second Term at Deloitte US Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Chief Purpose Officer Dips Out of KPMG Dumpster Fire; EY Teases a New Quantum Computer | 8.3.26 Friday Footnotes: EY Silently Blocks Tokenmaxxing; Uniting Across the Aisle to Make the IRS Report Wait Times | 7.31.26 Layoff Watch ’26: KPMG Australia May or May Not Be Letting 1,000 People Go EY’s Latest Data Breach Comes With a Fun New Game: Guess the Client (UPDATE)Well Here’s a Surprise: Grant Thornton is Buying CBIZ For $5 Billion In Case You Didn’t Hear, PwC Interns Won’t Be Swarming Disney World This Year Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Do More Work to Get More Work, Says PwC Leader; Can You Teach Interns to Think? | 7.27.26 Friday Footnotes: Regulators Turn Their Eye to Offshoring; Auditors Ask “Is It Incompetence or Is It Fraud?” | 7.24.26 Grant Thornton Wants to Get Back on the Audit A Team Treasury Says Cool It on the 351 Conversions Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Baker Tilly Looking at Debt Markets; PwC Partners to Take Home More Than a Mil | 7.20.26 Friday Footnotes: OpenAI CFO Says Don’t Sweat Token Costs; Seems Everyone and Their Manager Is Polishing Up Resumes | 7.17.26 Bonus Watch ’26: No Bonuses at BDO?Congratulations to This Tiny 673-Person Town on Earning a Spot in Future Fraud Training Slides Note to PwC Partners: Don’t Tell Reporters You Plan to Divorce Your Wife to Hide Assets After an Audit Scandal Layoff Watch ’26: Big Cuts Are Coming at KPMG Australia Turns Out Firms Don’t Like It When You Offshore Yourself Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Lets the PCAOB Know They’re in Some Trouble; Accenture Experiences an “Isolated Matter” | 7.13.26 Friday Footnotes: PwC Lays Off in Audit, KPMG Makes Back Office Cuts; AI Company Wants Guidance From the PCAOB | 7.10.26 Big 4 Firm With AI Quotas Unironically Explains Why AI Quotas Are Such a Terrible Idea in Latest Survey Activist Investor Tells CBIZ They Need More Acquisitions in Their Life Beware This Hot New Scam: LinkedIn Job Hunt Takes a Sharp Detour Into Attempted Bank Emptying Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Cool It on the Scandals, Students Are Watching; Quarterly Reporting Proposal Overwhelmingly Opposed | 7.6.26 The SEC’s Quarterly Reporting Proposal Is Catnip for Comment Letter Writers, Investors Not So Much EY Consultant Discovers One Weird Trick to Never Work in Banking Again, Or Big 4 For That Matter North Carolina Board of Certified Public Accountant Examiners Makes a Persuasive Argument Against Paper KPMG May Have Gotten Big 4 Into Big, Big Trouble in Australia Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Insists Candidates Enjoy Their AI Avatar; Guy at Deloitte’s Grandma Has Something She Can Put on the Fridge | 6.29.26 Friday Footnotes: Amateur Forensic Accounting Not Appreciated By Local Parks Department; KPMG Getting Dogged | 6.26.26 In New AI Guidelines, IRS Politely Suggests You Not Make Up Sources Like Deloitte Did Top 20 Firm Eide Bailly Gets on the Private Equity Train The Big 4 Model Might Be Cooked Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Gave Us a Reason to Mention GTA 6; The Bad KPMG Anecdotes Are Adding Up | 6.22.26 Friday Footnotes: Deloitte UK Asks Nearly 200 Auditors to Please F Off; AI Chatbots Favored Over Actual Accountants | 6.19.26 Layoff Watch ’26: EY Trims Some Newbies in Audit MFA Fatigue Is Real. Turning It Off Is Not an Option for Tax and Accounting Firms.ClicData Launches MCP Server to Bring Trusted Business Data to AI Assistants for Midmarket Teams Three Rules for Junior Accountants Competing With AI BDO and National Wildlife Federation Partner to Protect Habitats The Future of Your Tax Practice is Connected. Here’s Your Path Forward CCH Axcess Adds Agentic AI for Tax Preparation Tax Court Tears Down Deductions for Historic Structure Easements MYCPE ONE Rolls Out Tax Preparation Services Support for Canadian CPA Firms Forvis Mazars Helps Special Olympics Athletes Embrace Health, Wellness, and Opportunity 7% of Older Americans Say Working is Still Financially Necessary Klarna and TaxDome Partner for Payment Flexibility for Accounting Firms CFOs Cite AI Cost-Governance Gaps in Survey Smarsh Expands Solutions for AI, Cyber, and Third-Party Risk FlexTecs Launches Invoice Compliance for AP Workflow Why AI Requires CPAs to Look Beyond Traditional Risk Scores From Backlog to Breakthrough: Why Manual Dispute Reconciliation is a Liability for Financial Institutions

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