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Spot On Plumbing Wins 2026 Nextdoor Fave Award in Tulsa, OK
Spot On Plumbing - Your Dog's Favorite Plumber Plumber In Tulsa Wins neighborhood vote for Favorite Plumber Spot On Plumbing has been named a 2026 Nextdoor Fave Awards winner, recognizing local businesses recommended and supported by their neighbors. BROKEN ARROW, OK, OK, UNITED STATES, October 29, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Veteran-owned Tulsa plumbing company recognized in Nextdoor's 10th annual awards celebrating the local businesses neighbors know and trust.
The 5 Plumbing Problems Homeowners Face in 2026
Spot On Plumbing - Your Dog's Favorite Plumber Trusted and Safe Easton Working on a Water Heater Ryan - Lead Journeyman Tech at Spot On Plumbing Marcos Working on a Tulsa Water Leak Spot On Plumbing highlights five common plumbing problems Tulsa-area homeowners should watch for in 2026. Small plumbing problems can become much bigger when they’re ignored.
Tulsa Restaurants Face Costly Drain Backups From Failing Grease Traps, Spot On Plumbing Warns
Spot On Plumbing - Your Dog's Favorite Plumber A Tulsa restaraunts grease trap A Tulsa restaraunts grease trap A Tulsa restaraunts grease trap Tulsa plumbing company expands grease trap installation and replacement services as commercial kitchens address aging and undersized grease systems.
Resources Archives - Going Concern
Embracing Remote Accountants Can Benefit Your Business Remote working is on the rise. In 2016, 22% of American employees did at least […] Accounting Jobs The next generation of accounting jobs. Accountingfly connects you with remote accounting jobs in the public and private sectors. Visit accountingfly.com to find a remote job or to hire a remote talent.
Remote Work Articles - Going Concern
Accounting profession-centered articles about remote work and the impact it has had on the profession.
advice Archives
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Small Archives
Letter to the Editor: Small Firms Are Suffering in This Market, Does Anyone Care? We received the following from a small firm owner who is suffering under the weight of talent shortages, massive workloads, and hoards of would-be clients shopping around because their accountant (rightly) raised their fees. What’s a small firm to do? I have a small firm in [redacted].
M&A Archives
In early August, EisnerAmper announced a “strategic investment” in the firm courtesy of investment management firm TowerBrook Capital Partners, the first of its kind for a firm of that size. The door is now wide open for private equity to get a piece of the accounting pie.
Sponsored Content
Becker CPA Review wants you to master virtual recruiting and interviews, here’s how you do it. Recruiting season is anxiety-inducing enough in the most normal of times: making small talk, promoting yourself without coming off as self-absorbed, and let’s not even get into worrying about your lunch lingering in your teeth. As Covid drove the […] As of July 1, continuous testing is the new way CPA exam candidates plan and sit for the exam.
For Employers Archives - Going Concern
In this still-new world of virtual work for office drones everywhere, it’s inevitable that some people find the adjustment to work-from-home harder than others. For some people, their issues revolved around muddy work schedules and a crumbling routine. For others, however, work-from-home exposed one basic fact that has probably been known for quite some time […] You already know by now the remote revolution is upon us.
Appleは「政府用の極秘iPod」の開発を手伝っていた
2020年08月20日 13時30分 ソフトウェア by raneko Appleでソフトウェアエンジニアとして18年間勤務したデイビッド・シャイア氏が、「アメリカ政府エネルギー省が極秘で開発したiPod」を手伝った時の逸話を公開しています。当時はやりとりが全て口頭で行われたことから、Apple公式の記録には残っていないという、秘密裏に進められた任務について明かされています。 The Case of the Top Secret iPod - TidBITS https://tidbits.com/2020/08/17/the-case-of-the-top-secret-ipod/ iPodの第4世代・第5世代が発売された2005年のある日、翌年のiPodのコードを書いていたシャイア氏のもとに、上司の上司にあたるiPodソフトウェアのディレクターが訪れました。この人物はシャイア氏に対し、「君に特別な仕事を割り当てる。このことは君の上司も知らない。アメリカのエネルギー省のエンジニア2人が特別なiPodを作るのを手伝って欲しい。報告書は私だけに渡してくれ」と告げたとのこと。...
Career Advice Archives - Going Concern
Nearly 10 years ago to the day (10 years and one day, specifically), my esteemed former colleague Caleb Newquist wrote a post for this here then-new website entitled Infuriating Problem of the Day: Accountants Quitting During Busy Season.
Industry Archives - Going Concern
It’s the thick of busy season, you are swamped, and one of your managers comes by your desk to ask, “Can you pick up this job for me? It should only take 10 hours.” What should you say? You are already stressed out but you want to be seen as a team player and a […]
Partners Corner Archives - Going Concern
Welcome back to another installment of … uh … we never did name this series, did we? My bad. Well whatever, welcome back to another installment of us interviewing folks around the accounting profession who have mastered the art of working smarter, not harder. This series is brought to you by our friends at Gusto; […] In 2020, self-service analytics could be the superpowered accelerator your accounting or finance career needs to get to the next level.
Promotion Watch ’19: Citrin Cooperman Adds 18 New Partners and Principals
On July 1, 16 new partners got their seats at the big kids table at Citrin Cooperman, while two others got their “New Principal” t-shirts. Joel Cooperman “I am pleased to announce this year’s promotions and extend a big congratulations to all of those promoted on their accomplishments,” said Citrin Cooperman CEO Joel Cooperman.
The Lovefest For Ex-Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert Continues
Former Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert has been getting a lot of love lately. Last week, Glassdoor released its 2019 ranking of the top 100 CEOs in the U.S. based on anonymous employee reviews, and Engelbert was ranked 15th—the highest among the Big 4 CEOs and the second highest among women chief executives.
Which KPMG Scandal Is Worse: PCAOB 'Steal the Exam' or CPE Training Exam Cheating?
Since Monday when the SEC announced it had fined KPMG $50 million for not one but two scandals involving auditor misconduct at the firm, I’ve been thinking about which scandal is worse. Is it KPMG audit partners stealing confidential information from rogue PCAOB employees in order to better the firm’s audit inspection scores OR is it auditors at all levels cheating on internal online training exams by illegally sharing answers with colleagues and manipulating test results?
Get Me the F*ck Out of Here: So You Put in Your Two Weeks, Now What?
Early on in this series, we covered the first steps to take before quitting your job in public accounting. You brushed up your dusty ass resume, connected with those obnoxious recruiters on LinkedIn you’ve been dodging since your first days in public, and gently massaged any and all connections you’ve made going back to your Accounting 101 professor.
Why Growing Companies Desperately Need People With Your Accounting Background
With companies relying more on artificial intelligence and cloud-based technology, there’s been a trending doomsday buzz about the stability of the accounting profession heading into the next decade. But put down those Morpheus blinders for just a minute and take a deep breath. We’ve got some good news for you flesh-and-blood number-crunchers: Now more than ever, companies need your accounting expertise to grow.
Fresh As It Gets, by Robots With Rayguns
Robots With Rayguns is back, and better than ever! RWR's third full length album, "Fresh As It Gets" is a 15 track dance party, and he's brought some new friends along to make it a truly outrageous experience! Pounding beats, glistening synths, and groovy basslines form an unmistakable RWR signature sound that will have your body moving for days at a time.
Deloitte Australia Told to Stop Bitching About Audit Regulator and Do Better at Auditing
Last week, the Australian Financial Review reported that a regulator’s inspections of a small risk-based sample of public company audits found that Deloitte’s audit quality was the worst of the Big 4 accounting firms, with 14 of 44 (32%) key audit areas examined having deficiencies. But instead of owning it, Deloitte played the blame game, particularly with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
Accounting in 2040: 4 Ways the Industry Will (Probably) Change in 20 Years
What will the accounting industry look like in 2040? Will Skynet launch a nuclear apocalypse, leaving robots to inherit Earth’s charred, radioactive remains, or will it just ruin the Terminator franchise with unnecessary and confusing reboots? Will accountants be plugged into a giant matrix, their bioelectricity used to power evil machine overlords, even though a human being is about the stupidest thing you could possibly use as a battery (sorry Wachowskis)?
Let's Try to Come Up with a Hockey Nickname for Each Big 4 CEO
Anyone who is a fan of the NHL knows that hockey players rarely call each other by their first or last names. They call each other by their hockey nicknames. There’s really no rhyme or reason for how hockey players get their nicknames. But usually, you get your hockey nickname by either adding “-er,” “-y,” “-zie,” or “-s” to the first syllable of your last name or sometimes the first syllable of your first name. Some also just go by their initials.
Get Me the F*ck Out of Here: To Job or Not to Job Before Leaving Your Public Accounting Job
Last week, we talked about first steps for quitting your job in public accounting. The TL;DR of it is 1) decide you’re going to leave before you do something you might regret like punching your partner in the balls and 2) get your resume ready. Alright, so let’s assume you’re ready to leave and you have that resume polished up like the fine turd it is. Let’s move on to the next step: finding a job. There are two paths you can take here.
The Hottest Accounting Jobs for Q2 2019
A lot of us at Going Concern would’ve rather been chained up in the dungeon with Tyrion Lannister instead watching last weekend’s “Game of Thrones” finale. But we’d prefer just about anything over being trapped in the figurative dungeon of boring, thankless accounting jobs. Here’s something that’s more omg-so-awesome “Breaking Bad” finale than fade-to-black “Sopranos” finale: a list of the best open accounting jobs.
Accounting Fraud Watch: Deloitte Malaysia Office Raided, Ex-Autonomy CFO Jailed, GT Advanced Technologies
Here’s some news on accounting frauds and scandals from the last couple of weeks that you might have missed. Malaysian police raid Deloitte office for 1MDB-related documents: sources [Reuters] Even though this is more scandal than fraud, whenever a Big 4 firm gets raided by police, we’ll fit it in somehow.
Layoff Watch ’19: Accountants Said to Be Among Casualties In Ford Bloodbath
There was some big news coming out of Dearborn, MI, yesterday, as Ford Motor Co. said by August it will have given 7,000 white-collar workers pink slips worldwide, a 10% reduction in its global salaried workforce, as part of a restructuring plan to reduce bureaucracy and increase revenue. And accountants are reportedly among those losing their jobs. The biggest job cuts will be felt among the higher ranks of the automaking giant.
Auditor Swap: Mazars Unseats PwC as Goldman Sachs International's New Auditor
For weeks, the rags in the U.K. have speculated about which midtier firm would win the battle to audit Goldman Sachs’ London-based European operations, a job PwC has held for what seems like a gazillion years. Would it be Grant Thornton? Would it be BDO, which became the fifth-largest firm in the U.K. earlier this year after its merger with Moore Stephens was finalized? Could it possibly be Mazars?
Get Me the F*ck Out of Here: First Steps For Quitting Your Job in Public Accounting
A year ago, our former contributor Megan (what the hell happened to her, anyway? Megan, send a smoke signal if you’re OK) wrote a field guide to quitting your job in public accounting. Unlike many of the articles we pour our hearts and souls into around here, it was well-received and even after all this time it still gets a ton of eyeballs on it.
From the Big 4 to an Advisory Job Leader
Does your accounting job have you trapped in an accrual world? Do you ever want to ditch it all and travel down a different career path?You could go back to school to become an orthopedic surgeon, but then you’d have to re-learn the phases of mitosis. You could be an English teacher, but that would require figuring out whether a gerund is a part of speech or a made-up word created by the government to destroy children’s dreams. (A word that’s a verb and a noun?
5 Crazy Fraud Stories
From Russian government assassinations to multimillion-dollar blood-testing scams, there’s never a shortage of surreal fraud stories to rock the financial industry each year. And each year, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) hosts the ACFE Global Fraud Conference to bring to life these hardly believable (yet true) financial cases by way of those who lived through or uncovered them. The 30th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference will be June 23-28 in Austin, Texas.
What In the Hell Is Happening to CCH?
Get excited, Tax Twitter, you’re about to get your moment in the sun. Granted it’s a moment of total panic but still, a moment. So, if you haven’t heard, CCH has been borked since yesterday. When we say borked, we don’t mean “some users are having access problems,” rather the entire thing has been nuked to hell. Like POOF.
Vault 2020 Firm Rankings: Culture, Leadership, Relationships with Supervisors, and Work/Life Balance
Hey, guys. Hope you all had a nice, relaxing holiday weekend. As you know, Mondays after a holiday weekend suck, especially if you hate your job. But there are accounting professionals out there who were probably champing at the bit to come to work today because they actually enjoy being there and being around their co-workers, they have a life outside of the office, and their firm’s partners aren’t raging asshats.
Accounting Class Actions Are Once Again a Billion-Dollar Business
Well, looky here. The total value of accounting securities class-action settlements in 2018 reached the second highest total in the past decade, according to a new analysis by Cornerstone Research. The report found that while the number of accounting case settlements declined to 41 in 2018 from 49 in the previous year, total settlement value increased by more than five times to almost $4.5 billion, compared to $883 million in 2017. The dramatic increase was due to a handful of large settlements.
3 Ways Millennials Changed the Accounting Industry with Technology
In the age of Instagram influencers and workplace beer gardens, millennials often get an unfair rap for communicating and working differently than their older office peers. While they may have grown up texting in lieu of talking and “dancing” with headphones at silent discos, like it or not, millennials are now the largest and most prolific voice in the accounting world.
Hey Y'all, Let's Get Salty About These 2018 Elijah Watt Sells Award Winners
Whelp it’s that time of year again, the time when we recognize the efforts of an elite handful of CPA exam candidates whose performance on one of the toughest professional examinations out there ranks the best of the best. The AICPA handed out 110 Elijah Watt Sells Awards for 2018 last week, and as is tradition around these parts, we will recognize each and every one of them.
Vault 2020 Firm Rankings: Benefits, Comp, Vacation, and Promotion Policies
Earlier this week, we wrote about PwC’s continued dominance on Vault’s Accounting 50 and most prestigious firm rankings. Today, we’re going to focus on four of the 18 “quality of life” rankings that fall under Vault’s latest Best Accounting Firms to Work For section. And these four categories are near and dear to your heart: benefits, compensation, vacation policies, and promotion policies.
The Definitive Guide to Choosing a CPA Review Course
I’ve been writing about the CPA exam for, yeesh, it’ll be 12 years this summer. TWELVE YEARS. I wish I could say that’s like half my life, but I’m old now so it’s more like a third of it, which is still a pretty sizable chunk of it, all things considered.
RSM Pulled In $5.37 Billion In Revenue Globally in 2018
This slipped through the cracks, but it might be of interest to a few of you RSM fanboys and fangirls. RSM posts record revenues as consulting services power growth. Click here to read more: https://t.co/5EJKaHBnBT#RsmGlobal #revenue #RSMae #People pic.twitter.com/Vym6mOuC9j — RSMae (@RSM_ae) January 31, 2019 The $5.37 billion in global revenue the firm hauled in last year is up 5.4% from 2017.
Going Concern March Madness: Ultimate Tech Showdown
Once upon a time, our former dear leader Caleb — who is not exactly known as the pinnacle of red-blooded, sports-loving American male — got the bright idea to gift the accounting profession with its very own March Madness competition. Although it was wildly popular those first two years, it also ended in embarrassment for us as our “Coolest Accounting Firm” brackets ended two years in a row with Rothstein Kass at the top. Seriously, how did you guys let that happen?
Busy Season Problems: Moms (Usually) Just Don’t Understand
This week’s BSP is dedicated to all the Moms out there who still have no idea why you hardly call between late January to mid-April, why you’re working all day on a Saturday, why you look malnourished, and why you have bags under your eyes. my mom calls me: hi! how’s tax season going? are you getting enough sleep? me: her: me: her: me: her: me: her: me: lol no#TaxSeason #accountant #busyseason — ARB (@ashbarbera_) March 19, 2019 “Can you Cc me?
Why Is Aprio the Only Top 100 CPA Firm with a Non-Traditional Name?
There’s no easier way to put it: Most top accounting firms do it by the book. Even with the complication of buyouts and mergers, top 100 CPA firms have historically been named after founders. In fact, some states even require it—solidifying a tradition that many partners still prefer. That’s why when Habif, Arogeti & Wynne (HA&W) defied the norm and changed its name to Aprio in 2017, it was seen by many industry experts as a bold move.
4 Reasons the Accounting Firm Timesheet Must Evolve in 2019
It’s 4:45 on a Friday afternoon at Accounting Firm, USA. Fee earners are itching to start their weekends, but one final task remains. Before the happy hour beer taps can flow, before elated dogs (and disinterested cats) can greet their returning owners home, before the family can pile into the minivan and head out to Johnny’s high school football game, a strange and ancient ritual must take place. Let’s pause our narrative here for a moment and do a little exercise.
Let's Talk About F*cking Your Coworkers
Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all! Whether you’re single, attached, or too busy to give a crap about getting laid, today is all about love. Or at least that’s what Hallmark wants us to believe. Given the fact that love is on everyone’s minds this week, the following article from the NASBA Center for Public Trust couldn’t be any more timely. Forget the foreplay, let’s get right to it.
Have You Been Approached By a Colleague to Participate In a Fraud?
Good morning, GCers. Some friends of ours at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario are conducting research on group fraud and other highly unethical acts, and we’re hoping you can do them a solid and help them with their project.
Are Financial Barriers to Entry Keeping Low-Income People Out of the Profession?
You may not know this but I grew up po’. Not “sorry, Adrienne, you won’t be getting a new bike for your birthday” po’, but “sorry, Adrienne, Santa won’t be coming at all this year, deal with it” po’. The child of a hardworking single mother, I learned pretty early on how to make box macaroni and cheese with powdered milk (bleh) and was wearing thrift store clothes long before it was cool.
Where Did Your Alma Mater Rank In This List of the Top 50 Accounting Schools in 2019?
Now, before you break out that Jimmer Fredette BYU basketball jersey from 2011 or start tomahawk chopping in front of your co-workers, keep in mind this isn’t U.S. News and World Report’s ranking of the schools with the best undergraduate accounting programs. This ranking of the top 50 accounting programs in the U.S. is from Study.com, an online education platform that also provides resources to students searching schools and careers.
Why Accounting is the Key to Expanding the Digital Nomad Movement
Getting paid to sit on a beach in Tahiti or ski a few runs at Whistler Mountain might sound a little too good to be true—if it were 2004. But with the power of reliable Wi-Fi and a trusty laptop, the age-old idea that traveling the world while earning a living is only a fantasy has become just that: age-old. Digital nomads—aka those who work remotely abroad—are now a fixture in today’s business world.
Bonus Watch ’19: Tax Whistleblowers
Snitching on tax cheats could be just as lucrative in 2019 as it was in 2018, according to Dean Zerbe, national managing director for alliantgroup and former tax counsel for the Senate Finance Committee.
Hey Tim Ryan, We Found That Shoe Shine Guy You Wanted to Recruit to PwC
Back in 2015, Caleb wrote an article based on a LinkedIn post by then-PwC Vice Chairman of Stuff Tim Ryan about an exceptional shoe shine guy he met at LaGuardia Airport. In typical holier-than-thou, white-collar fashion, Ryan kicked himself for not giving the guy his card, as he likely dreamed throughout his flight of offering this poor bastard whose only career opportunity is shining shoes an opportunity to work at blessed PwC.
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