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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: AI Will Save Your Job?; Compliance Gets Some Pipeline Blame | 12.18.23

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Hope you all are getting some good rest and merriment in the coming days, we’ll be on a low posting schedule next week with a few new things here and there should you be one of those weirdos who reads accounting news on holidays. Big Four Accounting Firms Overhired. The accounting firm is laying off dozens of U.S.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Embarrasses Itself (Again); Archaic IRS Tech; Partners Battle It Out | 2.27.23

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The Big 4 Accounting firm announced the independent review following the tragic death of EY worker Aishwarya Venkatachalam, 27, who fell to her death from the 11th floor of the company’s Sydney office in August last year. Yet that is what the IRS deals with every day.” From FloQast : Six in ten (63%) U.K.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Bullying at KPMG; Germany Bans EY; It’s All the Firms’ Fault! | 4.3.23

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EY fined, banned from some audits in Germany over Wirecard scandal from Reuters : Germany’s accounting watchdog on Monday handed the 2016-2018 auditor of Wirecard, named in the company’s annual reports as EY, a 500,000 euro fine ($541,650.00) and banned it from taking on new audits for companies of public interest for two years.

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Here’s Everything We Know So Far About 2022 Accounting Salary Projections

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With the ongoing Great Resignation across all industries and the critical pipeline problem contributing to a shortage of accountants , the profession is in a bit of trouble. Let’s start with the salary guide to beat all salary guides: the 2022 Accounting & Finance Salary Guide from Robert Half. Senior tax accountant: 1.4%.

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Friday Footnotes: IRS Chief Hoping for ‘Financial Sacrifice’; PwC Spin-Off Layoff; KPMG Unites Deals and Other Deals | 10.27.23

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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. They also expressed doubt IRS would deliver on its promise to not increase audits on those making less than $400,000 per year, promising to hold IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel accountable. “My

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Friday Footnotes: EY Cancels Christmas; A Very Sucky PwC Report; Should We Tax Robots? | 12.23.22

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We will be out of office next week but have scheduled some things to run while we’re gone for those individuals who are severely addicted to accounting shitposts and simply cannot go without. The average British worker’s pay in 2023 is expected to fall back to 2006 levels once inflation is taken into account, according to PwC.

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ICYMI: The Ten Most Popular, Not at All Clickbaity Stories of 2022

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average for a gallon is creeping dangerously close to $5 with Georgia coming in lowest at $4.33 Here’s Everything We Know So Far About 2022 Accounting Salary Projections. The only reason accounting salaries did keep up with inflation for so long was the lack of inflation. According to AAA, the U.S. Everything costs more.