{"id":231866,"date":"2026-06-30T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231866\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:53:08","slug":"large-pittsburgh-accounting-firms-are-taking-summer-breaks-ahead-of-july-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231866\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Pittsburgh accounting firms are taking summer breaks ahead of July 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Some of the biggest accounting firms in Pittsburgh are getting an early start celebrating July 4 \u2014 and it\u2019s not a special way to commemorate the nation\u2019s 250th birthday. It\u2019s a summer tradition that bookends a similar week off at year-end at EY, PwC and Schneider Downs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">At EY, it\u2019s the ninth straight year of giving all employees a week-long break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cOur first summer break, in 2018, was part of our celebration of being named to Fortune\u2019s 100 Best Companies to Work For list for the 20th consecutive year,\u201d said Darrell Smalley, EY\u2019s Pittsburgh office managing partner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/06\/26\/accountants-summer-break-july-4.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/06\/26\/accountants-summer-break-july-4.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Some of the biggest accounting firms in Pittsburgh are getting an early start celebrating July 4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[100250,100253,58220,65349,73,100252,100251,75,74,100254,100255,75060],"class_list":["post-231866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-account-firms","tag-ey","tag-independence-day","tag-july-4","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-accounting-firm-summer-break","tag-pittsburgh-accounting-firms","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pwc","tag-schneider-downs","tag-summer-break"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}