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Friday Footnotes: EY on the Private Equity Offer; KPMG Tries to Stop Partner Poaching; Taxing the Metaverse | 9.8.23

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News KPMG halves pay for US partners on gardening leave amid poaching war [ Financial Times ] KPMG’s US partners have been told that they will be put on 50 per cent pay during six months of gardening leave if they quit to join a rival, marking an escalation in efforts by the Big Four accounting firms to stop staff poaching.

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Friday Footnotes: How Much Big 4 Spent on Lobbying Last Year; Super Bowl Bets; CFOs Feeling Good | 2.9.24

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Three of the firms also joined industry efforts to designate accounting as a science, technology, engineering, and math—or STEM—field, according to federal lobbying disclosures. My buddy from undergrad works office security at one of the Big 4 accounting firms in Midtown. “Win big?

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Friday Footnotes: ‘KPMG Did Not Know What They Were Doing’; Are You Boring?; PCAOB Warns About Confirmations | 3.25.22

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Akazoo fired its CEO and saw its stock price tumble shortly thereafter, and investors have now filed a $40 million lawsuit against the accounting firm that audited the defunct company’s financials. Louis also held himself out to be an accountant who prepared tax returns for pay or as a favor to friends.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Eff You, Pay Us; Let’s Complain About Auditing Again; RIP to a Real One | 8.14.23

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The Times Union of Albany wrote about local firm BST and its enthusiasm for women in leadership : A Latham-based accounting firm is touting the number of women it employs in leadership positions, which some partners at the firm say has been partly driven by a longtime practice of letting women with children work from home.

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Friday Footnotes: EY Partners’ Snazzy Secret Meeting; PwC Talks Layoffs; Merger Mania! | 8.19.22

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We’re adding accounting firm mergers & acquisitions to the weekly news as they’re happening with such frequency and regular Footnotes readers will notice the news is now sorted by topic. Firm M&A: Eisner adds Minn.-based accounting firms, has merged with Healdsburg’s Mengali Accountancy Inc.,

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