Edmund Tadros

The Financial Review list shows the country’s largest accounting firms are racing to deploy artificial intelligence across their businesses. 

The nation’s largest accounting companies want to cut costs and swap routine compliance for real-time financial advice.

Accounting firms are seeking graduates with personality and grit, making part-time retail work, team sports and volunteering as valuable as good marks.

Walker Wayland partner Kate Douglass says new parents can be those who want a full break or those who call in after a few months desperate for adult connection.

It’s contrasting tales of fortune at the top and bottom of Australian firms. Plus: EY cuts 90 positions while Grant Thornton adds 20+ new partners.

The Macquarie audit is the most coveted and valuable auditing gig in the country, worth almost $75 million in annual fees.

Anyone from a major firm listening to the Senate would have gasped in horror. Plus: Which firm exited 11 over their conduct, and who won audits from EY.

Accounts lodged with the corporate regulator show the private equity firm injected another $50 million into the public sector consultancy in the 12 months.

The firm is the latest in a string of appointments over the last decade as the postal service undergoes significant change and shores up its finances.

Tax Practitioners Board chief executive Michael O’Neill will become an adviser to the charities regulator, disrupting new inquiries into the consulting giant.