• The Big Four firms are incapable of unwinding their own deep-seated conflicts | Ian Gow and Stuart Kells

    The Big Four firms are incapable of unwinding their own deep-seated conflicts | Ian Gow and Stuart Kells
    By rejecting demergers on their own terms, the Four have chosen uncontrolled and possibly chaotic break-ups on someone else’s terms and clockThe Big Four – PricewaterhouseCoopers, EY, Deloitte, KPMG – are the global behemoths of the professional services industry. With nearly 1.5 million staff and US$190bn in annual revenue, they dominate markets for accounting, auditing and tax-related advice. They are huge in other businesses too, including the provision of A$2bn of outsourci

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