A little late, but a blog post at CFO.com about the level of service a small-cap public company can expect to receive from a Big Four auditor compared to a mid-size firm seemed inter­esting enough to share: CFO.com reader Kunal Ganguly wrote us to say a company of Catapult’s size, with its $102 million market cap, […]

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The Managing Partners’ Forum was estab­lished in 1995 and is “dedicated to enhancing leadership and the status of the management team in profes­sional firms worldwide.” They recently released the inaugural Global 500, a ranking of the top 500 profes­sional services firms in the world by fee volume. The Big Four are at the top of […]

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The Big Four audit firms — Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Price­wa­ter­house­C­oopers, and KPMG — along with the number five and six firms — BDO and Grant Thornton — have joined forces to call for signif­icant changes to the way public companies report their results. They propose businesses report realtime financial data via the Internet, rather […]

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US public company Ferro Corp. said in a May 18 SEC filing that KPMG’s audit report on their 2004 and 2003 state­ments were not adverse or even qualified reports. One wonders why they would go out of their way to make the claim. Anyway, KPMG submitted a statement to the SEC yesterday that their audit report […]

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