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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Big 6 accounting firms call for changes
November 10th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Category: Profession
Tags: BDO, data, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton, KPMG, public company, PwC, realtime
& Young theme song">The Ernst & Young theme song
September 27th, 2006 · 5 Comments
Wow. You’ve gotta see this. And comment on it! (Via The Anonymous Accountant.)
Category: Profession
Tags: Ernst & Young, group, singing
Auditor laptop stolen, confidential data included
June 3rd, 2006 · 4 Comments
The auditor for Hotels.com is Ernst & Young, and one of their staff working on the audit had their laptop stolen from their car, compromising the credit card data of approximately 243,000 customers. These things will happen, but what I don’t understand is whether they’re just assuming whoever stole the laptop is going to be […]
Category: Technology
Tags: audit, client, confidentiality, Ernst & Young, laptop, security, theft
