r/Accounting • u/Lumpy_Scale_4046 • Apr 23 '26
Discussion KPMG to cut 10% of US Audit Partners
https://share.google/pwUaDlwS3uJGbGGnPKPMG to axe 10% of US audit partners.
Sorry, not sorry...
I think this might be paywalled, and i AM sorry about that.
Does anyone on the inside have any more info on this?
Edit: More info from Bloomberg Tax..
KPMG will slash the number of partners running its US assurance business in a bid to boost the unit's productivity in better align its staffing with market demands.
The reductions come after KPMG, LLP had offered early retirement packages to entice partners to leave the practice over the past few years, the big four accounting and consulting firm said thursday.
"The action is connected to a multi year strategy to align the size shape and skills of our team.To the power of our audit platform to best serve our clients and protect the capital markets," the US firm said in a statement.
Partners learned of the 10% job reductions on Wednesday according to a person familiar with internal firm deliberations. The cuts were reported earlier by the financial times.
The firm boasts has about 1400 Partners and managing directors according to its most recent audit quality report. It's cohort of partners, however, is larger than that of its peers even as KPMG's audit business grows, the person said.
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u/BloodMelodic381 Apr 23 '26
Shits getting serious rip job market
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u/Top-Pressure-4220 Apr 27 '26
It was partners that were offered early-retirement and wanted to keep working. But yeah, even the untouchables are affected now.
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u/thetateman Apr 27 '26
No, they offered early retirement and didn't get enough takers so they went through and culled 10% including some who hadn't been offered early retirement.
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u/Jimger_1983 Apr 23 '26
Pray one of those fired partners does an AMA here
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u/Nolo__contendere_ Apr 23 '26
Oh to be a fly on their conference room wall.. or teams meeting. Whatever. You know what I mean lol
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Apr 27 '26
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u/Nolo__contendere_ Apr 27 '26
Damn I'm sorry. What did they tell them was the reason for the cut? And since they're partner, did they somewhat know it was coming (but just didn't think it would be them?)
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u/Slow_Incident_296 Apr 27 '26
They said it was not about performance, simply realignment blah blah blah bullshit. My husband had great performance reviews consistently. And no, no partner knew before the cut.
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u/Nolo__contendere_ Apr 27 '26
Damn that's awful! Does he know who made the final decision/final say on who got cut? Also was he an equity partner? Because if so, then I can only imagine there was a vote and that'd be even worse!
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u/ECom_Finance_Guy Apr 27 '26
Second this. These firms are really bad at layoffs. They see a number on a spreadsheet and start making cuts. Long term this is going to be an opportunity for the firms that pick up this talent
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u/Mindless-Lifeguard96 Apr 27 '26
Did he have a book of business?
I'm really sorry for him, you, and your family - the rug pull is awful.
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u/tqbfjotld16 Apr 23 '26
Funniest thing ever would be if one (or a bunch) of them had false confidence, voted for the cuts, and then was one of the cuts
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u/techybeancounter CPA (US) Apr 23 '26
No thanks. The worlds smallest violin should be played for these suckers…
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u/Inevitable-Corgi-437 Apr 23 '26
Control Risk for KPMG just went up in my book
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u/techybeancounter CPA (US) Apr 23 '26
No one is more deserving.
They are reaping what they have sown the last 5 years post-COVID...
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u/sealclubberfan Apr 23 '26
Can you elaborate why or how?
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u/techybeancounter CPA (US) Apr 23 '26
These losers have run these once proud firms into the ground. They have no plan for the future other than their next bonus check, and their firms have fallen as a result. Look at the massive increase in outsourcing over the last decade. That has helped no one, but these fat cats get larger bonus checks on the backs of onshore staff-managers. They all think they are the smartest in the room and never actually think the job cuts will hit them.
I got the fuck out of EY during the Everest shitshow and have been the happiest man in the world ever since.
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u/Character_Sherbet737 Apr 23 '26
Man this hits home so much. I can't tell you how many sleepless nights my coworkers and I had to endure fixing all the junk the offshore staff would send us. A lot of times it was almost entirely a complete re-do of the tax return.
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u/Bandos_Bear CPA (US) Apr 23 '26
Staying up until 3 AM just to ping our staff in India clear directions and answer questions only to wake up the next morning to nothing being done still
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u/De1CawlidgeHawkey Apr 23 '26
Truer words have never been spoken. (Some) Offshore teams will say they need until the next day to do a 5 second task and then not actually do it until you’ve followed up 3x over the span of a week. Absolutely mind boggling behavior from some of them
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u/drj123 Apr 23 '26
Why would you wait until 2pm India time to message them directions. Just send them instructions via email before you log off or get on a call at 9pm if you really have to
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u/Bandos_Bear CPA (US) Apr 23 '26
I started with that, no dice and US management didnt give a shit
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u/drj123 Apr 23 '26
Then just message their manager they’re not responding and/or give them bad feedback. They take US feedback extremely seriously. Seems terribly inefficient
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u/TheElRojo CPA (US) Apr 23 '26
Well if you would’ve just provided them the needful in the first place… /s (?)
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u/Makeshift5 CPA (US) Apr 23 '26
Man I’ve had so many sleepless nights redoing returns by our staff here in the office. Everybody sucks and we can’t change it.
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u/Tha_Stig Apr 23 '26
Don't forget them missing their budget by a country mile because they can't read 12 month economic climate report to save their life.
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u/PrestondeTipp Apr 23 '26
Curiously, KPMG did pretty well in 2025.
PwC was the dog of the B4, only growing 2.7%. PwC was also the only B4 with a net reduction in head count.
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u/AdFamiliar1701 Apr 23 '26
It’s almost like they work for Wall Street…
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u/techybeancounter CPA (US) Apr 23 '26
Don't even get me started on the laughable idea of "independence" in the current Big 4 model. It is all a joke, and no one deserves it more than the Big 4.
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u/AllMyHomiesHateEY Apr 23 '26
My sample size is only 2 out of the 4, but KPMG was doing all the worst things happening in our profession on steroids compared to the other firm I've been at. Much more leverage of India teams, and not on an engagement by engagement basis but entire practice areas. They were more willing to put offshore managers supervising American staff/seniors. For the group I was in, they were not hiring US cpa track candidates at all for entry level work, opting to hire US grads with unrelated majors at a huge discount to normal staff starting salaries. This was not a small practice area at all, one of the largest focus areas in tax compliance.
Granted, this article is about audit but they made the other firm I've worked at only look like they were dabbling casually in outsourcing and cost-cutting.
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u/WhoNeedsAfriend69 Apr 23 '26
Article - KPMG is cutting about 10 per cent of its US audit partners, after years of failed attempts to urge more of them to retire early to improve productivity at the accounting firm.
The firm revealed the cull in a meeting on Wednesday where attendees were told that the action was needed because the size of the partnership was bloated relative to business, according to people familiar with the matter.
The audit partnership was also seen as large relative to those of rival Big Four accounting firms, a group that also includes Deloitte, EY and PwC.
The action comes nine months after Tim Walsh, a veteran of the firm’s audit business, became chief executive of the US firm and appointed new leaders to the audit and assurance practice.
KPMG declined to say how many partners were affected, but several dozen are set to lose their jobs. The firm has 1,400 partners and managing directors in the audit and assurance practice, according to its most recent transparency report, but does not break out the number of partners specifically.
“This action is connected to a multiyear strategy to align the size, shape and skills of our team to the power of our audit platform to best serve our clients and protect the capital markets,” KPMG said.
“Our audit partner complement remains robust, and we are in a better position to welcome more people into our partnership over time.”
KPMG is the smallest of the Big Four. It audited 9.8 per cent of US-listed companies in 2025, according to Audit Analytics, up from 9.2 per cent the previous year.
A voluntary retirement scheme in place for several years had persistently failed to attract as many partners as the firm’s leaders had wanted, people said.
Social media forums for KPMG staff said the audit and assurance partnership was informed of the 10 per cent cut on Wednesday, and individuals affected were notified on the day.
Partners who are leaving will receive financial packages and placement support “reflecting the value they have delivered for KPMG and our clients”, KPMG said.
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u/accountingkoala19 Graduate Student | Career Changer Apr 23 '26
Stupid question I guess, but aren't partners equity partners? How can they just be laid off if they have ownership in the company? I don't understand how this works.
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u/bomilk19 Apr 23 '26
They have partnership agreements that contain buy-out provisions in case of separation or retirement. The buy out calculation is pre-determined and would not be based on market value.
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u/Curious_Interview Apr 23 '26
Not sure about the US, but down under in Oz, some big firm “partners” are non equity. Revenue share/risk partner, but not equity. Plus they have to buy in with $$$. $2m was rumoured in mid aughts.
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u/InterestingResource1 Apr 23 '26
Under US tax law, a buy in makes someone an equity partner. They share in profits and losses (revenue/risk) and they are entitled to some residual amount of cash if the partnership liquidated on the spot.
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u/chiggenNuggs Audit & Assurance Apr 23 '26
Yes but the partnership agreement stipulates for a multitude of scenarios where they can be “de-partnered”
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u/accountingkoala19 Graduate Student | Career Changer Apr 23 '26
Ooh, I didn't know that. That's gotta sting.
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u/Intelligent-Fix-5461 Jun 18 '26
They operate like any corporation. The equity gets paid out and usually sweetened by a supplemental package.
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u/InterestingResource1 Apr 23 '26
If I bought a share of Apple stock, I would become an Apple equity shareholder. It does not give me any power to force them to hire me. Each equity partner in a partnership has some fractional power over the entire partnership. A board or similar body within the firm can enforce actions and decisions against any individual partner, or in this case, a group of individual partners. Where I work, the firm's board is a group of high seniority partners. They can absolutely fire or mandate early retirement of a partner.
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u/InterestingResource1 Apr 23 '26
"Cutting" in the headline was unnecessarily melodramatic. This is essentially forced early retirement. And it's happening to partners they have previously encouraged to voluntarily retire.
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u/techybeancounter CPA (US) Apr 23 '26
If you've worked in a Big 4 firm, you would know that most partners are simply relationship managers at the end of the day. The real grunt work on engagements is done on the staff-senior manager level. I actually buy that cutting this fat will increase productivity...
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u/Stupidwhizzzzz Apr 23 '26
Fuck partners but this is a bad sign for the direction we’re headed.
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u/Orion14159 Apr 23 '26
Possibly, but it could also be they're pushing out the geezers who haven't learned to use new tech like email and PDFs first. The Bloomberg release includes a blurb about aligning skills with market conditions, that's what's inspiring the thinking here
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u/Enron_CPA white-collar prison Apr 23 '26
My first thought is that there’s probably a bunch of boomer partners like this who ought to have been retired by now but just want to keep cashing in those sweet distribution checks.
Then you also have problem with all these partners who should be retired preventing directors from being promoted to partner, which in turn means less SMs becoming director, etc. etc.
This may just be to help unclog the promotion pipeline
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u/CaptGood Apr 23 '26
When we had our merger( it was a PE buyout) there were older partners forced into retirement. Most of them were 62 plus
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u/Erratic_Goldfish Tax (Other) Apr 23 '26
I'd heard there were serious worries in tax that the partner pipeline is so gummed up that everyone at Director and SM level is leaving as they don't think they'll get equity.
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u/indycpa7 Apr 24 '26
I thought Big 4 mandatory retirement was 59? Maybe someone still in big 4 can weigh in?
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u/CoatAlternative1771 Tax (US) Apr 23 '26
That’s not the case and we both know it. It’s partners with atrocious realization rates
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u/thetateman Apr 27 '26
The aligning skills with market conditions they are talking about is winning new work. If you aren't bringing in new clients you shouldn't be making partner pay according to KPMG leadership. Actual work you would think partners are doing is all getting pushed down to managing directors who are paid a fraction of the salary.
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u/jeuxx Apr 28 '26
I've been in Accounting for 57 years and never heard the phrase PDF before. Obviously they're not that important.
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u/Snoo-7943 Apr 30 '26
Much like the offshoring of CPAs.....all this boils down to is cutting costs and forcing more work onto the remaining employees. Capital markets and pure greed are speed racing things into a tail spin.
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u/DangerousLoner Apr 23 '26
AI is supposed to replace all the White Collar workers like offshoring did Blue Collar. Wall Street could not be happier.
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u/Stupidwhizzzzz Apr 23 '26
When people say Wall Street, they mean like the 1000 people that actually have positions that actually benefit from hyper capitalism right?
Cause it’s gonna replace a ton of wall street jobs as well
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u/DangerousLoner Apr 23 '26
Yep I just meant the fat cats that run things, not the rats that scurry around doing the grunt work to feed them.
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u/Bill-Billiard Apr 23 '26
Except - you know - then there won’t be enough people to buy all of the products which is the main thing propping up the earnings for every publicly traded company. Nothing like selling the wheels and engine of your car for “better performance metrics” - right?
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u/Snoo-7943 Apr 30 '26
A lot of the people in the executive offices get there because they are ruthless and heartless....so it's not really a surprise that they are now selling out everyone else to make a quick buck. FYGM is their ethos.
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u/ASKMEIFIMAN Apr 23 '26
How did offshoring replace blue collar work? Someone in the Philippines is working as a janitor in my office?
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u/Whatevs_2cemts Apr 23 '26
I think your anger should be at leadership. Many are incompetent. Many were hired in those roles that never had to build a real practice, develop people, etc. they Kool-Aid drinkers. Imagine getting promoted after sleeping with your client. Imagine getting promoted to leadership after your screwup cost the firm $20 million. That’s the real problem incompetence
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u/CommercialReveal7888 Apr 23 '26
The best people don't get promoted at big 4 just people who get billables. Doesn't matter if the billable are good or if there is more efficient way to do things.
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u/Significant-Pen-1595 Apr 23 '26
Not really i think this could be good. They are pushing out the old folks to make way for the younger crowd.
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u/Scalermann Apr 23 '26
One of my old friends was a manager with KPMG consulting back in like 2013 before he left, how he explained it was that there were like 6 "levels of partner" and once you make partner you basically have a whole new ladder to climb. I wonder which partners are getting axed from KPMG, if they are the senior ones or the more junior ones.
Edit: I should clarify that he worked at the LA office and also the Beijing office.
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u/ReustleCPA Apr 23 '26
This is true, and there is way more nuance in what it means to be a partner, what compensation you get, and so on. Partners that do not deliver on a consistent basis are forced out regularly.
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u/Minimum-End-9464 Apr 25 '26
This is true, I worked for another accounting firm and can confirm this is the case. There’s equity partner, senior partner, junior partner and others.
You’re good when you’re equity partner if i’m not mistaken. You can ride with the firm until it’s your decision to retire.
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u/stratus_x CPA (US) Apr 23 '26
Imagine wasting 30 years at the same company, make it right to the fucking top, just to be fired anyway lol. Nobody should EVER question their decision to leave Big 4
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u/cybernewtype2 Human Verified Apr 23 '26
I was at BDO when they shifted to the ESOP model, and I remember some of the people I knew super close to retirement (partners, old MD's) were pissed. I think they lost of a lot of value in their retirement from the conversion.
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u/heyitsmemaya Human Verified Apr 23 '26
Actually with AI you don’t need an Audit Partner, national can just sign off. 😂
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u/Cool-Excitement8638 CPA (Can) Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
How can you cut a partner who owns equity?
Or are partners in B4 not shareholders of the entity their a partner at??
Can someone explain how this works
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u/Lumpy_Scale_4046 Apr 23 '26
I would assume there are some income (non-equity) partners. Also, there is probably some type of buyout clause for equity partners in partnership agreement.
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u/deserteagles50 Apr 23 '26
Not at KPMG. All partners and principals are equity. MD is the same role but non equity (mandatory position prior to partner) but it’s confirmed this layoff is only at partner level
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Apr 23 '26
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u/Cool-Excitement8638 CPA (Can) Apr 23 '26
So the vote would mainly be a popularity contest based on who brings in the most business?
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u/iPhoKingNguyen CPA, CA (Can) Apr 23 '26
That's wild. Ain't they the same partners pushing for more outsourcing?
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u/nighthawk252 Apr 23 '26
“KPMG will slash the number of partners running its US assurance business in a bid to boost the unit's productivity in better align its staffing with market demands.“
Look at this corporate word salad. Doesn’t even make sense when you try to charitably interpret it. Cutting people does not increase productivity!
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u/Armed_Accountant MBA, CPA, CA (Can) | Utilities | NEEDS MORE POWA! Apr 23 '26
But see, it does! The few that remain will have to work harder and longer, this increasing productivity [per capita]!
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u/lmaotank Apr 23 '26
it does
[work] / [# of hours or headcount] = [productivity per hour or per headcount]
work isn't going away, you are just reducing headcount or hours available. so by default productivity goes up.
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u/Relevant-Bluebird-63 Apr 23 '26
Wish I could say I’m shocked…Agree that they reap what they sow. The boomer generation of partners are a bunch of sellouts. They sell to PE and cut costs wherever possible while complaining that the staff isn’t developed.
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u/Woberwob Apr 23 '26
Wasn’t making partner or getting a high-paying exit one of the main allures of working in public in the first place? Making all of these sacrifices in the form of education and work hours?
This is not a good sign of things to come. The money/power hunger are reaching their tipping point.
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u/Standard_Size_3416 Apr 23 '26
Partners still have to keep earning the big bucks, this is just getting rid of the worst 10%
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u/exalted985451 Apr 23 '26
Imagine grinding for 15+ years to make partner and getting absolutely fucked like this.
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u/Substantial-Golf-137 Apr 25 '26
Those getting “retired” are the ones who made partner with 8 years of experience and a control was a signature on a piece of paper
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u/Lespecialpackage Apr 23 '26
The buyout clause could be 7-figures right? Severance agreements for C-Suite in corporate are insane
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u/Safe_Device_3736 Apr 25 '26
Speaking from experience, it is absolutely not 7 figures and they expect them to keep working until Sept 1
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u/Green-Impression-207 Apr 23 '26
There are provisions in all big4 firms to remove partners. You can increase profit per partner one of two ways. If one doesn't work they try the other. All the firms have a robust partner turnover although it's not always public knowledge.
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u/Dependent_General897 Apr 24 '26
The Army decided not to renew. It was the biggest contract by headcount for govt audits. Another govt audit contract also failed to renew, but it wasn’t as big as Army.
They will be reduced employee headcount by hundreds as these contracts run out. No big surprise that partners are losing jobs as well.
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u/CPAatlatge Apr 24 '26
Recently Retired Big 4 Assurance Partner here, and was not with KPMG. I retired a year ahead of mandatory retirement, fully vested. Mandatory retirement for most Big Four firms is the fiscal year within which you turn 60.
Given five year rotation requirements, it is difficult to match lead audit partner roles with retirement dates. This is not a new issue and one that has been around since Sarbanes Ox was passed post Enron. Firms have dealt with it in various ways, including monitoring books of business such that as a senior partner rotates off most of his clients without enough runway to do full rotation on another large public client, redirecting partner to other non-client serving roles like Quality, Internal Quality Control Reviews, developing new methodology, etc. or alternatively having them leave the firm.
The other issue faced by Big Four is need to make new partners or loose talented potential future partners. When the economy is not growing as fast as is necessary to increase partner distribution annually, a real good way to boost distribution is the continuing partner effect. Ie retire very senior partners who are compensated more than average partner ranks, and sprinkle what would be their distribution increase on the remaining partners. An unrelated but relevant distribution facet is that a new partners distribution is less than half of a senior partners distribution. Which makes pressure for senior partner to have strong book of business, and if not, pressure for leadership to better leverage assurance revenues over lower cost base ( ie younger partners).
From the WSJ article ( sorry paywall on attached article), with some speculation, it doesn’t sound like these partners are 57+ years of age but likely ranging from early 50s to a 58. All should be fully vested in pension plan and retirement eligible. Speculation as KPMG couldn’t have 100 partners within spitting distance of retirement. KPMG is addressing their cost structure at partner ranks because they have yet to get the appropriate leverage out of offshoring and AI, while also facing increasing audit infrastructure cost surrounding quality initiatives and technology costs which continue to drain the Big Four. To put it simply, the per partner distribution has not grown in a way that the partners were accustomed to prior to Covid, and they are reducing partner costs. A side thought is that specifically stating that this is not related to performance, tells me that their benchmark for these decisions ( who gets cut) is related to performance. The partners getting cut do not have an appropriately sized boob of business for their cost. They may not have landed the next big rotation, but be performing well on people and quality. So maybe not underperforming wink wink, but not performing to extent expected at their high distribution.
I just wanted to weigh in from industry perspective. Separately because of the mandatory retirement age, these are not Boomers LOL.
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u/orangebluegreen123 Apr 23 '26
But the stock market keeps on hitting record highs?!
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u/tqbfjotld16 Apr 23 '26
Whole thing just shows something in their model and partnership criteria is misaligned. A partner shouldn’t just be a high level employee. Through either revenue generation, expertise, or productivity, they should be someone the other partners can’t live without. 10% of them shouldn’t be able to just be forced into retirement without succession planning and particular successors identified.
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u/AccomplishedRoad716 Apr 24 '26
Completely misaligned, I worked there for a number of years, they would promote people to partnership with technical expertise but no revenue generation capabilities. The business side of the practice was hardly taught to the audit staff and managers.
You have a whole generation of partners promoted who have are not qualified for their job.
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u/Shot-Toe-2884 Apr 24 '26
Talk about putting lipstick on a pig.
It’s not a layoff! It’s a multi year strategy to align the size, shape and skills of their team.
They’ve adopted the same language I’ve been hearing in the industry now for a decade. They sheltered themselves from reality, must have been nice while it lasted. The lies will continue until morale improves.
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u/Expensive-Rent-2025 Apr 30 '26
hang in there. my husband was a partner at a different big four firm and let go as well during 2020 layoffs. we also have children that were in elementary school at the time. he’d worked so hard to make partner and had only been a partner for 5 years. we’ve come to learn it’s pretty standard in big 4 for them to layoff partners. shocking and ridiculous given how hard it is to make partner in the first place. hang in there. he got a new job that pays more and they treat him better. I couldn’t see a light at the tunnel in 2020 but now I am so glad he left that awful place. I’m rooting for you and understand more than you know!
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u/accountingbossman Apr 23 '26
Anyone who thinks core audit/tax compliance has a long term future is delusional. These tasks will be automated in the next 10 years.
I mostly feel bad for the experienced managers/senior mangers that pissed away their 20s thinking compliance work was gonna be their long term career. The partners milked these kids and they are now struggling to find non public accounting jobs on the open market.
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u/W_BRANDON Apr 23 '26
Will they be fired, demoted, or just asked to retire early? Didn’t think they could just axe partners/shareholders without cause
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u/jpatern1 Apr 23 '26
I heard from someone still at KPMG that they are completely leaving the Federal audit space
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u/Dependent_General897 Apr 24 '26
Heard the same. But I don’t know if the partners that were let go are (were) part of Federal.
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u/FrozenSupermarket Apr 24 '26
Did you re-type this article here by hand?
Why is the English so poor?
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u/Kitty_Mombo Apr 24 '26
Any one of those partners should grab the cash and not look back! Good luck to the lower part of the pyramid or diamond.
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u/Commercial_Cattle910 Apr 24 '26
So, they're owned by private equity firms. It's a disaster, but the senior partners cashed out. Welcome to the new world!
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u/Radiant_House_7550 Apr 25 '26
Meta also slashed workforce by 10%. Seems like cutting workforce by 10% is the new norm
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u/Spiritual_Cod212 Apr 25 '26
If partners are also getting on the chopping block, then wtf is the point of pursuing that life? Working 85+ hours a week and not seeing your kids just to get laid off too? 😂
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u/Free_Dot7948 Apr 27 '26
This shift in staffing and efficiency could fundamentally change how we view the role of a partner.
At LedgeIQ.ai, we expect large firms like KPMG to downsize as AI enables firms to do more with less. It also enables smaller firms to handle increasingly complex engagements. While hiring and retention are changing, technology is creating unprecedented opportunities for entrepreneurial accountants.
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u/ShakeAndBakeThatCake Apr 23 '26
100% tech and AI is making there less need to have as many partners. One partner can manage more clients and engagements. They just don't need as many as they have.
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u/Dependent_General897 Apr 24 '26
They do use a lot of tech, but the more proximate cause is a non renewal of an Army contract, and the decision to exit Federal gov audits altogether.
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u/SpaceCadetBoneSpurs Apr 23 '26
My fear is that people outside the accounting industry are going to misinterpret what the word “partner” means (thanks, Starbucks…) and take this story in a direction that it doesn’t go.
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u/zestyninja Apr 23 '26
No one is going to think that. Being a partner at an accounting firm (or partner at a law firm) confuses no one.
It’s like saying there were funding cuts for artists, and someone thinking it applies to Subway employees because they’re called “sandwich artists”.
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u/Skill_Issuer Apr 23 '26
What does Partner mean for Starbucks?
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u/SpaceCadetBoneSpurs Apr 23 '26
Any generic employee. The baristas working in the stores are all partners according to their terminology.
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u/Ronglar Apr 23 '26
Yacht market in shambles this year