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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Pays High Schoolers 20 Bucks an Hour; Deloitte Cyberattacked Too; IRS on ERC | 7.28.23

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He graduated summa cum laude in accounting from Baruch College with numerous other academic awards and a continuing passion for wrestling, Ping Pong and handball. He was drafted into the army in 1952 and returned to the accounting firm in 1954.

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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.

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Friday Footnotes: Retired EY Partners Hate on the Split; It’s a Raid!; ‘An Alphabet Soup of Technology’ | 11.18.22

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Bam is a chartered accountant and an outstanding South African. Big 4 affiliate firms continue to lead audit business in India [ The Economic Times ]. Failing to file taxes properly can result in substantial fines and, in some cases, audits. Fenton allegedly was employed as a tax manager at McDonnell Richardson.

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Friday Footnotes: Work-Life Balance, Does It Work?; Big 4 Firms Slash Job Postings; She Doesn’t Even Go Here! | 2.16.24

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The Conflict Surrounding Work-Life Balance in Public Accounting Firms [ CPA Journal ] For years, the public accounting sector has been characterized by high employee turnover. In the past few decades, public accounting firms have implemented work-life balance practices as part of their attempts to curb excessive turnover.

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Advice for Tax Preparers Making tax preparers lives easier one blog at a time HOME. Accounting Jokes, Videos, Puns and Humor. If you are going to be an accountant then you have to be able to laugh at yourself. A Democratic tax preparer PTINs the tail on the donkey. Longer Accounting Jokes.

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Friday Footnotes: Looking Elsewhere For Talent; MPs Talk Private Equity Concerns; The Burnout Queen | 8.25.23

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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. The accounting industry is in a state of transition. The influx of private equity, labor shortages, and remote/hybrid work have all impacted accounting firms to varying degrees.

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Friday Footnotes: Working Late; The Year of the ESOP?; It’s Not Layoffs, It’s “Repositioning” | 1.5.24

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Big 4 Big Four Reshape Consulting Workforce, Strategy With Rare Layoffs [ Bloomberg Tax ] The Big Four accounting firms have leaned into their tech advisory work and data analytics services—areas ripe for revenue growth—as interest rates and the artificial intelligence boom reshaped demand for consulting services.