Wednesday, December 22, 2010

We've Moved! - The Big Four Blog Is Now At Big4.com Site

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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 mov...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Yes, There Is A (KPMG Tax) iPad App For That!

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by Lisa Chapman, Big4.com So say, you are on a train somewhere or flying to a client, and have just about gone through all your iPad apps,...

Satyam Publishes Financials, India Seeks Auditor Liability – Impacts on Big Four

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by Susan Black, Big4.com We have blogged extensively about the fraud at Satyam Computers, when it was exposed by a letter from its erstwhil...

Dubai World Chief Restructuring Officer Aidan Birkett, ex Deloitte, To Step Down

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by John Fowler, Big4.com We have blogged earlier about how Aidan Birkett, who was a key managing director in Deloitte UK’s restructuring p...
Friday, October 01, 2010

KPMG, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Are Global Most Attractive Employers

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Susan Black, Big4.com (blog) We have blogged earlier about Universum’s World Most Attractive Employer Survey and this year Universum says i...
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Accenture Q4 Beats Street on Revenue and EPS, Confident Outlook, Shares Zoom

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John Fowler, Big4.com (blog) Accenture (NYSE: ACN)’s Q4-2010 and FY 2010 financial results ending August 31, 2010 blew past Wall Street ex...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Deloitte HQ Moves Out Of Switzerland, Follows Ernst & Young To UK

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Lisa Chapman, Big4.com (blog) We saw very recently an article in The Guardian of the UK which compelled us to really look at the footnote ...

Accenture And Deloitte Both Talk Jobs: 250,000 Each by 2015

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Susan Black, Big4.com (blog) Just in the last few days, we have had two Big Four firms talk about big job numbers. Accenture (NYSE: ACN) an...

UK Executives Feel Pinch Of Salary Freezes, Finds Deloitte

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Rob Starr, Big4.com Times are tough all over for everyone. And when you read a Deloitte report that says over half the FTSE 350 companies w...
Sunday, September 05, 2010

London Tube To Go Down Monday, But No Worries, PwC Has Survival Advice!

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John Fowler, Big4.com 4 September 2010 (blog) The London Underground (affectionately, the Tube) is going down at 5 pm Monday on September ...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

UK Employers Finding It Hard to Fill Key Job Vacancies Today, Says KPMG

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Rob Starr, Big4.com 25 August 2010 (blog) Here’s another one for the truth is stranger than fiction file. According to a new report from ...

FASB Chairman Herz, ex-PwC, Unexpectedly Retires. Seidman, ex-E&Y, Is Acting

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Lisa Chapman, Big4.com 25 August 2010 (blog) We saw it yesterday buzzing around in the news, and also confirmed by the Financial Accountin...

Interest Rates To Hit Eight Percent By 2012? No Way Says Ernst And Young

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Rob Starr, Big4.com 25 August 2010 (blog) Fair Investment.co.uk has an interesting story about how “Andrew Lilico, chief economist at Polic...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Pays $378 Million Cash for Diamond Management & Technology Consultants

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Susan Black, Big4.com 24 August 2010 (blog) PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) is plunking down $378 million in cold hard cash for Diamond ...
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Monday, August 23, 2010

PricewaterhouseCoopers UK Has A Term For The Housing Market: “Slowth”

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by John Fowler, Big4.com August 20th, 2010 (blog) Stagnation plus inflation is “Stagflation” Breakfast plus lunch is “Brunch” You have ve...

UK Government Reveals Consultant Spend, Big Four Firms Garner Millions

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by James Spencer, Big4.com August 20th, 2010 (blog) The recent release of the Communities and Local Government spending data for the last y...
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PricewaterhouseCoopers Tearing Their Hair Out With Fergie

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by Rob Starr, Big4.com August 20th, 2010 (blog) It’s easy to imagine that the money gurus at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have done more th...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Westpoint Now Embroils KPMG, Deloitte And Australian Securities and Investments Commission

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Rob Starr, Big4.com 19 August 2010 (blog) Earlier we had blogged about how KPMG Australia was going to fight its case against Australian ...
Monday, August 16, 2010

KPMG Piggybacks on Dodd-Frank, Hires ex-Fed Official

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Chris Nelson, Big4.com 16 August 2010 The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Dodd-Frank Act") is exp...

PCAOB Releases 2009 Inspection Report on PricewaterhouseCoopers, 9 Issuers Cited

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John Fowler, Big4.com August 16, 2010 PCAOB just released its 2009 annual inspection report on PricewaterhouseCoopers using inspections fro...
Monday, August 09, 2010

Accenture Expands Even As the IT Outsourcing Market Outlook Remains Uncertain

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Charles Harper, Big4.com August 9, 2010 (Blog) Even as industry leaders point to an uncertain outlook for IT Outsourcing for the rest of 2...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Deloitte Powers On In Social Media, But Australian Companies Lag

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Nita Teoh, Big4.com August 5, 2010 Social media is proving to be a powerful force on the business front. And it has been used in multiple...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Big Four Firms Await Developments on Australian Minerals Resource Rent Tax

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Nita Teoh, Big4.com July 20, 2010 Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Treasurer Wayne Swan treaded carefully to reach an amicable...

We Talk with Grant Thornton on Accounting Talent Management

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July 20, 2010 Company CFOs, as guardians of corporate coffers, have been under severe pressure in this economic crisis, equally to mainta...
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Monday, July 19, 2010

KPMG Extends Consulting Depth, Buys Grant Thornton Supply Chain Practice

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John Fowler, Big4.com July 19, 2010 We have not seen many acquisitions come through for KPMG US, but there has been growing rhetoric abou...
Friday, July 16, 2010

Deloitte’s iPad Sales Predictions Are Right On The Money

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Rob Starr, Big4.com July 16, 2010 A recent update to Deloitte’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications Predictions 2010 has some find...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Ernst & Young UK Seeing A Fragile Recovery For The UK Economy

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Rob Starr, Big4.com July 14, 2010 The recovery from the worst worldwide recession in the last 6o years has left the domestic side of th...

Capgemini And KPMG Shape The Thinking At 2010 World Congress On IT

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Nita Teoh, Big4.com July 14, 2010 Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are continually faced with the increasing pressure of delivering gr...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Ernst & Young Combines Far East and Oceania Into Asia-Pacific Region

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John Fowler, Big4.com July 13, 2010 Singaporean and Asian newspapers and websites are reporting that Ernst & Young will combine its F...

KPMG’s Infrastructure 100 – Most Exciting Global Projects – A Must Read

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Nita Teoh, Big4.com July 13, 2010 It’s not often that phrase “most exciting” and “accounting firms” are found together. So, it was inter...
Monday, July 12, 2010

Deloitte Realizes Synergies From BearingPoint Federal Practice. Thousands Hired

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Charles Harper, Big4.com July 12, 2010 More than a year ago, on March 25, 2009, we wrote about the imminent breakup of BearingPoint with ...