Saturday, February 14, 2026

Audit Professionals In Love: "Forget Flowers, KPMG Wants You to Give Your Spouse the Gift of Compliance on Valentine’s Day"

With St. Valentine fading really fast in the rear-view, from Going Concern:

A tipster has provided us with what passes for Valentine’s Day cards at KPMG: notices that their spouses will be receiving postcards reminding them that independence matters to them, too....

....MUCH MORE

Also at Going Concern: 

KPMG Brings AI Talking Points to a Fee Negotiation, Inadvertently Opens a Pandora’s Box Filled With Stingy Clients

According to KPMG, ‘A Majority’ of People Would Take a Pay Cut If It Meant Working With Friends 

Friday Footnotes: Italian Tax Cops Go Sniffing Around KPMG’s Office; Depreciation Is AI’s Latest Victim 

Probably not related:
Valentine's Day and Economists

This tale is said to be told by John Kenneth Galbraith on himself. As a boy he lived on a farm in Canada. On the adjoining farm, lived a girl he was fond of. One day as they sat together on the top rail of the cattle pen they watched a bull servicing a cow. Galbraith turned to the girl, with what he hoped was a suggestive look, saying, "That looks like it would be fun." She replied, "Well.... She’s your cow."