If something goes wrong on an audit, whose fault is it? Is it the partner’s fault or the junior member of staff’s fault? Over in Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper has provided some interesting commentary on a legal case that is currently taking place concerning an audit undertaken by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The background to [...]

I guess we’ve all done it at some time or another. We’ve woken up one morning and due to too much work (or too much drink…) you look in the mirror and think “oh dear” (or some similar but slightly stronger words). Well step forward Mr Ed Moyse and Mr Ross Harper who when they [...]

It’s been a mixed year for Piet Hein Meeter the (former) chief executive of Deloitte in the Netherlands. It started well for him as he was appointed as the new CEO of the Dutch operations of Deloitte on the 1st of January this year. However within a few months his fortunes have changed dramatically. Deloitte [...]

The 84th Academy Awards ceremony (the Oscars) took place last night in Los Angeles. Pwc have looked after the balloting process of the Oscars for 78 years and since they have been involved they have counted in excess of 450,000 ballots and filled over 2,600 envelopes with the winning names. According to pwc there has [...]

He’s just been appointed as the new head of Ernst & Young with ultimate responsibility for the 152,000 EY people in 144 countries but what does his mum think? It must have been a proud moment for Mr Weinberger as getting to be the head of such a prestigious organisation as EY is a pretty [...]

I’m an accountant and I’m proud of it. I think the education and knowledge that you acquire both during your studies and continuing professional education are fantastic. At the start of my career when I worked for one of the Big 4 I spent several years in the Audit department and this was a great [...]

We blogged earlier this year about Michel Barnier, the EU internal market commissioner announcing plans to issue new laws which would dramatically impact the “Big 4” (namely Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PwC.) Well, these changes have now got a bit closer as the draft law has just been released. In an attempt to [...]

Not so long ago the finance profession was predominantly a male one. At the risk of showing my age, when I first entered the world of work the senior roles in the company I worked for were completely dominated by men. Things are rightly changing though and in most countries around the world the younger [...]

Michel Barnier, the European Union’s top financial services policymaker, has reportedly drafted a green paper which is expected to be presented to the European Parliament later this year. If the proposals included within the paper are actually implemented it would mean a radical shake up of the Big 4 business models within the EU. Mr [...]

The Financial Times or FT as it is generally known, is a great newspaper. First printed way back in 1888 by James Sheridan and Horatio Bottomley, the FT specialises in business and financial news. You can find a lot of information in the FT. Information ranging from share prices to the latest business activities can [...]