tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-138905982024-03-13T02:34:03.399-04:00The Big Four BlogBig Four news, events, happenings and opinions for Accenture, Andersen, BearingPoint, CapGemini, Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers alumni and professionalswww.Big4.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17008497768518419081noreply@blogger.comBlogger487125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13890598.post-90134583917321626712010-12-22T21:59:00.000-05:002010-12-22T21:59:37.200-05:00We've Moved! - The Big Four Blog Is Now At Big4.com Site<a href="http://www.big4.com/blog.html" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtN5oUOn4QXjczY31pTADItmIefFuJTPEOgVcaLSTqzomsQJM9kCkd_6nVQrhrJc0Ck5J6M1rznpu3qef-6jzpvemRLNv5QBgYw5SKf9VsOIP-XFCBOwZjinxeb5LUqZVyQ1rw6Q/s200/We+have+Moved.jpg" width="186" /></a><br />
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Dear Readers, if you've been missing some recent events, news, happenings on the Big Four firm space....it's because we've moved <a href="http://www.big4.com/blog.html">to our blog spot on the Big4.com site!</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/cuomo-sues-pronto-ernst-young-fires-back-more-drama-to-come-655">Cuomo Sues Pronto. Ernst & Young Fires Back. More Drama To Come</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/ernst-and-young-likely-to-be-charged-by-new-york-ag-this-week-654">Ernst and Young Likely To Be Charged By New York AG This Week</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/accenture-nyseacn-stock-reaches-historic-high-market-cap-tops-30-billion-653">Accenture (NYSE:ACN) Stock Reaches Historic High. Market Cap Tops $30 Billion</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/deloitte-think-tank-reveals-the-secret-to-us-job-growth-insourcing-652">Deloitte Think Tank Reveals The Secret To US Job Growth – Insourcing</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/deloitte-shocked-and-saddened-as-sec-charges-ex-partner-and-wife-with-insider-trading-651">Deloitte Shocked and Saddened As SEC Charges Ex-Partner and Wife With Insider Trading </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/deloitte-reportedly-still-pursuing-roland-berger-deal-650">Deloitte Reportedly Still Pursuing Roland Berger Deal</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/deloitte-starts-combination-talks-with-roland-berger-rb-partners-quickly-vote-no-649">Deloitte Starts Combination Talks With Roland Berger. RB Partners Quickly Vote No</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/kpmg-uk-welcomes-the-queen-of-england-a-lucky-few-get-the-chance-to-meet-648">KPMG UK Welcomes The Queen Of England. A Lucky Few Get The Chance To Meet</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/8-cpas-in-the-new-house-of-us-reps-one-of-50-is-an-accountant-2-big-four-alumni-646">8 CPAs In The New House of US Reps, One of 50 Is An Accountant, 2 Big Four Alumni</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/deloitte-moving-into-iraq-next-year-pwc-and-ey-already-there-645">Deloitte Moving Into Iraq Next Year, PwC and E&Y Already There</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/what-a-day-in-big-four-ma-deals-abound-all-over-the-world-644">What A Day In Big Four M&A! Deals Abound All Over The World</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/ernst-young-uk-huge-draw-on-campuses-4500-apps-for-700-spots-643">Ernst & Young UK Huge Draw On Campuses, 4,500 Apps For 700 Spots</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/accenture-stock-acn-is-now-at-historic-highs-and-likely-more-upside-ahead-642">Accenture Stock ACN Is Now At Historic Highs, And Likely More Upside Ahead</a><br />
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So say, you are on a train somewhere or flying to a client, and have just about gone through all your iPad apps, including Angry Birds, Flipside and NBA Courtside. And you are dying for the latest in tax information and ruling.....<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We have blogged extensively about the fraud at Satyam Computers, when it was exposed by a letter from its erstwhile Chairman Ramalinga Raju on January 7, 2009, and shocked investors all over the world....</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We have blogged earlier about how Aidan Birkett, who was a key managing director in Deloitte UK’s restructuring practice went first to help Dubai World when it surprised global markets on the eve of Thanksgiving 2009....</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(blog) We have blogged earlier about Universum’s World Most Attractive Employer Survey and this year Universum says it best themselves, “Big 4 challenge Google’s position as the world’s most attractive employer 2010.”...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/accenture-q4-beats-street-on-revenue-and-eps-confident-outlook-shares-zoom-637%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinMSkXNlylKYm5Lr4pFZjMsatNInJq7NxTsesM3mSyhViKPeQ4Hj1-y9QrmK3vkVRGc-Jh-RYfa8upEhkMdXQC1a5qIVihjYxfxvO82lUTqIBAkPLVx_K5HXexOOPxwETbI_9gXw/s200/We+have+Moved.jpg" width="186" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">John Fowler, Big4.com</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(blog) Accenture (NYSE: ACN)’s Q4-2010 and FY 2010 financial results ending August 31, 2010 blew past Wall Street expectations. To add to this, Accenture projected double digit growth in 2011 revenue and 1% higher-than-previous-guidance growth in 2011 EPS. Investors loved it, moving the stock up 3.6% after hours....</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.big4.com/blog.html" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicLHOaZtiM_3CzTlVkdPVc5LmQzoUYbj-JDMKezFDvb6E9X6CTkOubVJy6-0aIEQDV9_ViO_FHTe35jk5m0SRedDzYm4dHs27S2l1n_P5CKzZSjkpSu6MQ7iQtD1w5dEFwa-XxXg/s1600/We+have+Moved+2.JPG" /></a></div>(blog) We saw very recently an article in The Guardian of the UK which compelled us to really look at the footnote at the end of each Deloitte formal press release. And it’s true. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, or Deloitte, has quietly moved its legally registered HQ from Switzerland to the UK, as noted astutely by the Guardian – full credit to them....<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(blog) Just in the last few days, we have had two Big Four firms talk about big job numbers. Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Deloitte are both coincidentally talking about the magic number of 250,000 by 2015...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/accenture-and-deloitte-both-talk-jobs-250000-each-by-2015-634%09%09%09%09%09%09%09">We’ve moved. Click here to go the full post at the new Big Four Blog at Big4.com!</a></span></b></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Times are tough all over for everyone. And when you read a Deloitte report that says over half the FTSE 350 companies will not increase the pay for their executives, you know that the pinch is being felt everywhere....</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(blog) The London Underground (affectionately, the Tube) is going down at 5 pm Monday on September 6th 2010, as The National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers (RMT) goes on strike, which is likely to grind trains to a halt and affect millions of commuters....</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(blog) Here’s another one for the truth is stranger than fiction file. According to a new report from KPMG UK, almost half of the British employers surveyed said that they were having a hard time filling open job vacancies. In fact 45% of the 600 that were surveyed said that they were having this problem to such an extent they were looking offshore to fill the vacancies, especially for key positions where historically talent has been sourced from outside the UK as in engineering, accounting/finance and IT....</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(blog) We saw it yesterday buzzing around in the news, and also confirmed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) that its current chairman Robert Herz is retiring on his own accord almost two years before the end of his term, much to the surprise of the industry, the Board and the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF). Robert H. Herz was appointed FASB chairman on July 1, 2002, and was reappointed to a second term effective July 1, 2007 for a 5 year term. Previously, he was a senior partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(blog) Fair Investment.co.uk has an interesting story about how “Andrew Lilico, chief economist at Policy Exchange claims that interest rates could have to increase to eight per cent to combat the high inflation that will couple the boom he is predicting.”...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(blog) PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) is plunking down $378 million in cold hard cash for Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, Inc. in another sign that the M&A market in the consulting business is heating up – see all our previous blogs on this, notably Booz-AT Kearney, Deloitte UK, Accenture and Capgemini being key newsmakers in recent months....</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(blog) Stagnation plus inflation is “Stagflation”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Breakfast plus lunch is “Brunch”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You have very likely heard of these common blended words.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) UK introduces “Slowth” into housing lexicon, which is not what the Urban Dictionary defines as “Slowness. Generally sloth-like behavior, especially of computers or co-workers” but presumably a blended word of “Slow” plus “Growth”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this case, slowth has hit the UK housing market.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(blog) The recent release of the Communities and Local Government spending data for the last year 2009 may have been meant as a political gimmick, but it’s proven very useful to see who is really up and down in the reasonably secretive world of public sector procurement.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(blog) It’s easy to imagine that the money gurus at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have done more than a few jobs in their time which might have caused them some strife. After all, dealing with some of the biggest names in the financial world and having to juggle complicate money systems from one end of the globe to the other can’t be easy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/westpoint-now-embroils-kpmg-deloitte-and-australian-securities-and-investments-commission-616%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfK6H5b5149Ss3ETR0s2JE6T-iMeQjGs8VFd21J_1zwiOoIgt1Lw690F-cBF4VgVrqbye_ErJDJfOyPd2KRco3vNNS6HS1iMN7xltHMeupchQ3Tt4OJPNrVv6UqyBUQY7_tan3yA/s200/We+have+Moved.jpg" width="186" /></a>Rob Starr, Big4.com</div><div style="text-align: justify;">19 August 2010</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(blog) Earlier we had blogged about how KPMG Australia was going to fight its case against Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in the Australian High Court arguing that the case against it was unconstitutional under Australian law (http://bigfouralumni.blogspot.com/2010/05/kpmg-goes-to-high-court-down-under.html)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Dodd-Frank Act") is expected to help lawyers, lobbyists, lawmakers….now Big Four firms.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yes, Big Four firms are looking at streams of consulting revenue as clients try to understand and make sense of this sprawling act with many procedures which are unclear now and are left to further study .</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">PCAOB just released its 2009 annual inspection report on PricewaterhouseCoopers using inspections from October 2008 through October 2009 at the Firm's National Office and at 34 of its approximately 61 U.S. assurance practice offices. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.big4.com/blog/accenture-expands-even-as-the-it-outsourcing-market-outlook-remains-uncertain-612%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKvg_0J__RYvmKaGlwoyPsNmnsOtAfMOjRBkYYI30GfDEC38-_S90nUC-t1JavxHh2urWT9vP37zW8OSO0GweFbHPd0QE3zoKxEm9UsCxKp1i2NuHYc1kAhjWtjw_UzsPU5DdbBQ/s200/We+have+Moved.jpg" width="186" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Charles Harper, Big4.com</div><div style="text-align: justify;">August 9, 2010</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(Blog) Even as industry leaders point to an uncertain outlook for IT Outsourcing for the rest of 2010, Accenture moved quite rapidly in July 2010 to grow its market share for the current year and beyond. Within the month of July, the company has announced the acquisition of a French business processing company, the expansion of its operations in the Philippine Islands and the securing of a major outsourcing deal in Bangalore, India.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Social media is proving to be a powerful force on the business front. And it has been used in multiple ways by innovative companies, as in building a company’s brand, increasing engagement with partners, customers and employees, as also to recruit talent and manage external public relations. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Treasurer Wayne Swan treaded carefully to reach an amicable deal with the mining industry giants over the revised Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since the new tax was released on the 2nd July, the Opposition party has been hard at work to uncover the downsides of Labor’s new policy. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="border: medium none; text-align: justify;">Company CFOs, as guardians of corporate coffers, have been under severe pressure in this economic crisis, equally to maintain profitability and efficiently manage their own financial organization. Revenue enhancement, cost control and risk management is still job number one. But not far from that is the acquisition, nurturing and retention of those who really make it happen – the accounting staff within their organizations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We have not seen many acquisitions come through for KPMG US, but there has been growing rhetoric about the need for Big Four firms to get back into the consulting business. See this article right from KPMG’s global site, which says….”For some time, the Big 4 accountants have been keen to make the point that they're more than just auditors. Less than ten years ago though, three of them exited the market for consultancy services. Fast forward several years and they're back en masse - and seemingly more assured than before. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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