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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 Deloitte Made the Creepy Digital Librarian From The Time Machine But For Golf The IRS Moves Atlanta Employees to an Office That Makes the Rat-Infested Office Look Pretty Good As of Tomorrow NASBA Will No Longer Text One-Time Passcodes KPMG Redefines Excellence in the Age of AI By Using AI to Pump Out Dubious Citations in This Now-Removed Report Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Oh Rats! The IRS Is Infested; PwC Partners Will Divorce If It Spares Their Cash | 6.15.26 Rumor Has It RSM Asked Some Partners to Dip Out Friday Footnotes: Great, KPMG Got the Whole Big 4 in Trouble; Pentagon Brings in Agentic AI to Address Their Audit Problems | 6.12.26 Crowe Told Its People Private Equity Might Be Coming So They Didn’t Have to Find Out Through a WSJ Article (UPDATE)The IRS Is Holding a Few In-Person Hiring Events The One Firm Willing to Audit Madison County’s Books Just Said “On Second Thought, Hell Nah”It Appears Baker Tilly Bought a 103-Year-Old Firm Just to Get a Better Address FRC To Determine Whether Missing a £30 Million Overstatement Was, In Fact, Bad Auditing Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: What’s KPMG Got to Do With the NBA Finals; PCAOB Chairman Is Just One of the Guys | 6.8.26 Compensation Watch ’26: Deloitte Salary Numbers Are Out and Some People Are Salty Friday Footnotes: Big 4 Partner Thinks Regulation Is Stupid; KPMGers No Longer Get to Go Home Early on Summer Fridays | 6.5.26 Everything is Shrinkflating These Days, Even the Number of Elijah Watt Sells Award Winners So Do We Or Don’t We Have an IRS Commissioner?The Department of War Broke Up with KPMG, KPMG Gives Up Federal Audits Altogether (UPDATED)Much Like You, The SEC’s Top Accountant Never Really Wanted to Be an Accountant Either Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Five State Societies Merge Into One Regional; What’s NASBA’s Beef? | 6.1.26 Friday Footnotes: Fresh Scandal Forces KPMG CEO to Quit; Deloitte UK is Doing OK | 5.29.26 KPMGers Are Maliciously Complying With The Firm’s AI Usage Requirements By Generating Fluff CPA Exam Bonuses Get Bigger at PwC AI Won’t Wipe Out Offshore Talent, Say Firm Leaders in India Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Is AI in Big 4 a Big Deal?; Consulting Isn’t For Everyone, Or Most People Really | 5.25.26 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 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 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 Here’s Who’s Serving on the PCAOB’s Inspections Modernization Council Xero Announces New AI Innovations at Xerocon London U.S. Judge Allows SEC-Musk Deal Despite ‘Significant Misgivings’Are IRS Chatbots Really Helping Taxpayers?Will World Series of Poker Main Event Attendance Be Impacted by Major Tax Changes?Controller Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $1.1 Million From Employer BMSS Adds Avizo Group in Alabama The 1099 Rules Are Changing, But the Compliance Problem Remains AICPA and NASBA Recognize Top CPA Exam Performers with 2025 Elijah Watt Sells Award Employment Seekers and Businesses Navigate Rise in AI-Fueled Fake Job Postings Senators Probe Trump’s IRS Immunity Deal Feds to Decide Fate of California’s $2 Billion Plan to Tax Health Insurers to Fund Medi-Cal Instead of Uniting the Left, California’s Billionaire Tax Measure Has Split Democratic Allies Child Care Tax Credit for New Hampshire Biz Becomes a Reality Downtown L.A. Fixture PwC Will Move to Century City Meaden & Moore Gets Private Equity Backing From Unity Partners 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 Deloitte Made the Creepy Digital Librarian From The Time Machine But For Golf The IRS Moves Atlanta Employees to an Office That Makes the Rat-Infested Office Look Pretty Good As of Tomorrow NASBA Will No Longer Text One-Time Passcodes KPMG Redefines Excellence in the Age of AI By Using AI to Pump Out Dubious Citations in This Now-Removed Report Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Oh Rats! The IRS Is Infested; PwC Partners Will Divorce If It Spares Their Cash | 6.15.26 Rumor Has It RSM Asked Some Partners to Dip Out Friday Footnotes: Great, KPMG Got the Whole Big 4 in Trouble; Pentagon Brings in Agentic AI to Address Their Audit Problems | 6.12.26 Crowe Told Its People Private Equity Might Be Coming So They Didn’t Have to Find Out Through a WSJ Article (UPDATE)The IRS Is Holding a Few In-Person Hiring Events The One Firm Willing to Audit Madison County’s Books Just Said “On Second Thought, Hell Nah”It Appears Baker Tilly Bought a 103-Year-Old Firm Just to Get a Better Address FRC To Determine Whether Missing a £30 Million Overstatement Was, In Fact, Bad Auditing Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: What’s KPMG Got to Do With the NBA Finals; PCAOB Chairman Is Just One of the Guys | 6.8.26 Compensation Watch ’26: Deloitte Salary Numbers Are Out and Some People Are Salty Friday Footnotes: Big 4 Partner Thinks Regulation Is Stupid; KPMGers No Longer Get to Go Home Early on Summer Fridays | 6.5.26 Everything is Shrinkflating These Days, Even the Number of Elijah Watt Sells Award Winners So Do We Or Don’t We Have an IRS Commissioner?The Department of War Broke Up with KPMG, KPMG Gives Up Federal Audits Altogether (UPDATED)Much Like You, The SEC’s Top Accountant Never Really Wanted to Be an Accountant Either Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Five State Societies Merge Into One Regional; What’s NASBA’s Beef? | 6.1.26 Friday Footnotes: Fresh Scandal Forces KPMG CEO to Quit; Deloitte UK is Doing OK | 5.29.26 KPMGers Are Maliciously Complying With The Firm’s AI Usage Requirements By Generating Fluff CPA Exam Bonuses Get Bigger at PwC AI Won’t Wipe Out Offshore Talent, Say Firm Leaders in India Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Is AI in Big 4 a Big Deal?; Consulting Isn’t For Everyone, Or Most People Really | 5.25.26 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 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 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 Here’s Who’s Serving on the PCAOB’s Inspections Modernization Council Xero Announces New AI Innovations at Xerocon London U.S. Judge Allows SEC-Musk Deal Despite ‘Significant Misgivings’Are IRS Chatbots Really Helping Taxpayers?Will World Series of Poker Main Event Attendance Be Impacted by Major Tax Changes?Controller Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $1.1 Million From Employer BMSS Adds Avizo Group in Alabama The 1099 Rules Are Changing, But the Compliance Problem Remains AICPA and NASBA Recognize Top CPA Exam Performers with 2025 Elijah Watt Sells Award Employment Seekers and Businesses Navigate Rise in AI-Fueled Fake Job Postings Senators Probe Trump’s IRS Immunity Deal Feds to Decide Fate of California’s $2 Billion Plan to Tax Health Insurers to Fund Medi-Cal Instead of Uniting the Left, California’s Billionaire Tax Measure Has Split Democratic Allies Child Care Tax Credit for New Hampshire Biz Becomes a Reality Downtown L.A. Fixture PwC Will Move to Century City Meaden & Moore Gets Private Equity Backing From Unity Partners

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