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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Big Four dominate professional services globally
July 12th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Category: Profession
Tags: Arthur Andersen, BDO, Deloitte, Enron, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton, KPMG, management, managing partner, PwC, RSM
Big 6 accounting firms call for changes
November 10th, 2006 · 1 Comment
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 […]
Category: Profession
Tags: BDO, data, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton, KPMG, public company, PwC, realtime
KPMG disputing audit opinion">Ferro and KPMG disputing audit opinion
June 6th, 2006 · 2 Comments
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 […]
Category: Auditing
Tags: adverse, audit, Deloitte, dispute, Ferro, GAAP, KPMG, qualified, report
