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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Unintended Audit Consequences; The IRS Needs Experienced Accountants; PwC AI | 9.18.23

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‘There is no work to balance’: how shrinking budgets, Covid and AI shook up life in consulting : Andrew* is a 63-year-old partner in a small consultancy in England who finds himself with too much free time and too little cash. Sierra, a 23-year-old associate in New York is feeling “horrible” pressure to perform so she is not laid off.

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Talent-Strapped Down Under Deloitte and EY Are Importing Staff

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We all know outsourcing is big these days — accounting firms might be sending a third of their work overseas and some seniors are overseeing an entire team of offshore associates — but what about insourcing ? Safe to say accounting firms are fighting each other for any skilled data analysts they can get their hands on. “In

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Friday Footnotes: Tim Ryan Works Too Hard; Fake CPA Gets Violent Over QuickBooks Files; PwC PR | 10.20.23

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Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Early-career hires are set to account for the majority of job losses in some teams, as Deloitte retrenches following a slowdown in demand. Welsh said. Here’s how it landed on a 4.5-day

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Friday Footnotes: Firms on India Hiring Spree; PCAOB Heads Overseas; PwC Lets You See Your Family This Summer | 5.6.22

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Mesa grandma, 25-year-old accountant share love of Phoenix Suns [ Arizona’s Family ] JoAnne Ralph and Ben Barchilon have a special bond, and it all started with their love of the Phoenix Suns. The authors posit that one significant factor driving the gender gap in the accounting profession originates with the Uniform CPA Examination.

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