Grant Thornton in the UK merged earlier in the year with RSM Robson Rhodes, making it “a leading player in the mid-market and the provider of non-audit services to one in four of the FTSE 100,” according to GT’s chief Michael Cleary. The board of the merged entity makes the trans­action look more like an […]

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Here’s an inter­esting story coming out of Dallas: Embattled multi-level marketing firm Mannatech has fired its independent auditor, Grant Thornton, after the auditor gave the company an ultimatum: Remove Chairman and founder Sam Caster from the company or find yourself another auditor. So they found themselves another auditor, BDO Seidman, and let Grant Thornton go. […]

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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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Jeremy Newman of BDO Stoy Hayward, highlights a key finding of the British Oxera Report on Audit Choice and Compe­tition: According to the report by Oxera on Compe­tition and Choice published in April 2006 more than 70% of FTSE 100 companies had not held a compet­itive tender for the last 15 years. The incidence of […]

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It was only a few weeks ago I was blogging about the the potential merger in Canada of BDO Dunwoody and Grant Thornton. They announced that they were in talks and conducting the necessary due diligence proce­dures to see if a merger would be good for the two firms and their clients. They announced today […]

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