Oh, how we love a good poaching expedition. Especially when a firm feels so good about their prize that they get the PR team involved.

Undoubtedly, many of the seasoned public accounting hacks out there have received some variation of the following email:

For whatever reason, BDO was excluded in the last-minute lump of coal the PCAOB delivered to Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and Grant Thornton right before Christmas, but that doesn't mean their inspection report wasn't in the same class of quality.

And they threw in BDO for good measure.