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

Dear Readers, if you've been missing some recent events, news, happenings on the Big Four firm space....it's because we've moved to our blog spot on the Big4.com site!

Please bookmark the new site, and we'll see you there!


Here are some recent posts you'll find only there:

Cuomo Sues Pronto. Ernst & Young Fires Back. More Drama To Come

Ernst and Young Likely To Be Charged By New York AG This Week

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) Stock Reaches Historic High. Market Cap Tops $30 Billion

Deloitte Think Tank Reveals The Secret To US Job Growth – Insourcing

Deloitte Shocked and Saddened As SEC Charges Ex-Partner and Wife With Insider Trading

Deloitte Reportedly Still Pursuing Roland Berger Deal

Deloitte Starts Combination Talks With Roland Berger. RB Partners Quickly Vote No

KPMG UK Welcomes The Queen Of England. A Lucky Few Get The Chance To Meet

8 CPAs In The New House of US Reps, One of 50 Is An Accountant, 2 Big Four Alumni

Deloitte Moving Into Iraq Next Year, PwC and E&Y Already There

What A Day In Big Four M&A! Deals Abound All Over The World

Ernst & Young UK Huge Draw On Campuses, 4,500 Apps For 700 Spots

Accenture Stock ACN Is Now At Historic Highs, And Likely More Upside Ahead


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

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, including Angry Birds, Flipside and NBA Courtside. And you are dying for the latest in tax information and ruling.....

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

by Susan Black, Big4.com

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....

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

by John Fowler, Big4.com

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....

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

Susan Black, Big4.com

(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.”...

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Accenture Q4 Beats Street on Revenue and EPS, Confident Outlook, Shares Zoom

John Fowler, Big4.com

(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....

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

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 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....

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

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) and Deloitte are both coincidentally talking about the magic number of 250,000 by 2015...

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UK Executives Feel Pinch Of Salary Freezes, Finds Deloitte

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 will not increase the pay for their executives, you know that the pinch is being felt everywhere....

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

John Fowler, Big4.com

4 September 2010

(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....

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

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 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....

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

Lisa Chapman, Big4.com

25 August 2010

(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...

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

Rob Starr, Big4.com

25 August 2010

(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.”...

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

Susan Black, Big4.com

24 August 2010

(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....

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

by John Fowler, Big4.com

August 20th, 2010

(blog) Stagnation plus inflation is “Stagflation”

Breakfast plus lunch is “Brunch”

You have very likely heard of these common blended words.

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”.

In this case, slowth has hit the UK housing market.

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UK Government Reveals Consultant Spend, Big Four Firms Garner Millions

by James Spencer, Big4.com

August 20th, 2010

(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.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers Tearing Their Hair Out With Fergie

by Rob Starr, Big4.com

August 20th, 2010

(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.

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

Rob Starr, Big4.com

19 August 2010

(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)

We said in that blog post…

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

Chris Nelson, Big4.com

16 August 2010

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.

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 .

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PCAOB Releases 2009 Inspection Report on PricewaterhouseCoopers, 9 Issuers Cited

John Fowler, Big4.com

August 16, 2010

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.

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