Download or read book The Big Four written by Ian D. Gow and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Messrs. Gow and Kells have made an invaluable contribution, writing in an amused tone that nevertheless acknowledges the firms' immense power and the seriousness of their neglect of traditional responsibilities. 'The Big Four' will appeal to all those interested in the future of the profession--and of capitalism itself." —Jane Gleeson-White, Wall Street Journal With staffs that are collectively larger than the Russian army and combined revenues of over $130 billion a year, the Big Four accounting firms—Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG—are a keystone of global commerce. But leading scholar Ian Gow and award-winning author Stuart Kells warn that a house of cards may be about to fall. Stretching back to the Medicis in Renaissance Florence, this book is a fascinating story of wealth, power, and luck. The founders of the Big Four lived surprisingly colorful lives. Samuel Price, for example, married his own niece. Between the world wars, Nicholas Waterhouse collected postage stamps while also hosting decadent parties in his fashionable London home. All four firms have endured major calamities in recent decades. There have been hundreds of court cases and legal prosecutions for failed audits, tax scandals, and breaches of independence. The firms have come so close to “extinction level events” that regulators have required them to prepare “living wills.” And today, the Big Four face an uncertain future—thanks to their push into China, their vulnerability to digital disruption and competition, and the hazards of providing traditional services in a new era of transparency. This account of the past, present, and likely future of the Big Four is essential reading for anyone perplexed or fascinated by professional services, working or considering working in the industry, or simply curious about the fate of the global economy.

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Download or read book The World s Greatest Resumes written by Robert Wm Meier and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career counselor's guide to overhauling a resume, including the world's first "Resume Rater and Resume Quality Index," real-life success stories, and more than 25 before-and-after samples.

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Government Auditing written by Carlos Santiso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Economy of Government Auditing addresses the elusive quest for greater transparency and accountability in the management of public finances in emerging economies; and, more specifically, it examines the contribution of autonomous audit agencies (AAAs) to the fight against corruption and waste. Whilst the role of audit agencies in curbing corruption is increasingly acknowledged, there exists little comparative work on their institutional effectiveness. Addressing the performance of AAAs in emerging economies, Carlos Santiso pursues a political economy perspective that addresses the context in which audit agencies are embedded, and the governance factors that make them work or fail. Here, the cases of Argentina, Brazil and Chile are examined, as they illustrate the three – parliamentary, court and independent – models of AAAs in modern states, and their three distinct trajectories of reform, or lack of reform. Beyond Latin America, considerations on the reform of government auditing in other countries, developed and developing are also taken up as, it is argued, while institutional arrangements for government auditing matter, political factors ultimately determine the effectiveness of AAAs. Reforming AAAs, it is concluded, must consider the trajectory of state building, the role of law in public administration and the quality of governance. An important contribution to the comparative study of governance institutions, and especially those tasked with overseeing the budget and curbing corruption, The Political Economy of Government Auditing will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative politics, development studies, administrative law, and public finance; as well as to development practitioners and policy-makers in developing countries, donor governments and international institutions.

Download or read book Auditors written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on Economic Affairs and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Economic Affairs Committee's inquiry into Auditors: market concentration and their role aimed to look into two main issues: the dominance of the Big Four (Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers) and its effects on competition and choice; and whether traditional, statutory audit still meets today's needs. Also the Committee focussed on two other important issues: the effect on audit of the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS); and how banks were audited before and during the financial crisis and what changes there should be, including in auditors' relationships with financial regulators. The large-firm audit market is clearly an oligopoly with all the attendant concerns about competition, choice, quality and conflict of interest. It gave no warning of the banking crisis. The narrowness of the assurance it offers is much criticised. Its regulatory structure, in the UK and internationally, is complex and unclear. Yet investors, regulators and commentators regard rigorous and reliable external audit as an essential underpinning of business and the capital markets which finance it, in Britain and elsewhere. The assurance offered by audit is especially needed in the case of banks, with their attendant risks and where loss of confidence can imperil the financial system. The Big Four's domination of the large firm audit market in the UK is almost complete: in 2010 they audited 99 of the FTSE 100 largest listed companies, which change auditors every 48 years on average. In bank audit in the UK there is only a Big Three, since Ernst & Young are not active. This report highlights the risk that one of the Big Four might leave the audit market, leading to an even greater and wholly unacceptable degree of concentration unless preventive action were taken. The Committee makes three main recommendations: first, a detailed investigation of the large-firm audit market by the Office of Fair Trading, with a view to an inquiry by the Competition Commission so that all the interrelated issues surrounding concentration, competition and choice can be thoroughly examined in depth; that prudence should be reasserted as the guiding principle of audit; that the new framework of banking supervision should provide for bank audit to contribute more to the transparency and stability of the financial system.

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Download or read book Lawyers in 21st Century Societies written by Richard L Abel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an invaluable collection of essays by eminent scholars from a wide variety of disciplines on the main issues currently confronting legal professions across the world. It does this through a comparative analysis of the data provided by the reports on 46 countries in its companion volume: Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies: Vol. 1: National Reports (Hart 2020). Together these volumes build on the seminal collection Lawyers in Society (Abel and Lewis 1988a; 1988b; 1989). The period since 1988 has seen an acceleration and intensification of the global socio-economic, cultural and political developments that in the 1980s were challenging traditional professional forms. Together with the striking transformation of the world order as a result of the fall of the Soviet bloc, neo-liberalism, globalisation, the financialisation of capitalism, technological innovations, and the changing demography of lawyers, these developments underscored the need for a new, comparative exploration of the legal professional field. This volume deepens the insights in volume 1, with chapters on legal professions in Africa, Latin America, the Islamic world, emerging economies, and former communist regimes. It also addresses theoretical questions, including the sociology of lawyers and other professions (medicine, accountancy), state production, the rule of law, regional bodies, large law firms, access to justice, technology, casualisation, cause lawyering, diversity (gender, race, and masculinity), corruption, ethics regulation, and legal education. Together with volume 1, it will inform and challenge conceptions of the contemporary profession, and stimulate and support further research.

Download or read book Faster Higher Farther How One of the World s Largest Automakers Committed a Massive and Stunning Fraud written by Jack Ewing and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rich history of a company whose cars, for better and worse, have touched millions of lives, a character study of a brilliant but deeply flawed leader, and a case study in how a corporate culture can turn toxic.” —Bethany McLean, New York Times Book Review Faster, Higher, Farther chronicles a corporate scandal that rivals those at Enron and Lehman Brothers—one that will cost Volkswagen more than $22 billion in fines and settlements. Through meticulous reporting, New York Times correspondent Jack Ewing documents why VW felt compelled to install “defeat devices” in diesel vehicles that unlawfully lowered CO2 levels during emissions testing, and how the fraud was committed, covered up, and finally detected. Faster, Higher, Farther is a briskly written account of unrivaled corporate greed. Updated with the latest information and a new afterword by the author.

Download or read book The World Almanac and Book of Facts written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists news events, population figures, and miscellaneous data of an historic, economic, scientific and social nature.

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Download or read book Count Down written by Jim Peterson and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enron killed Arthur Andersen in 2002, leaving only Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC. Now the Big Four, with a total revenue of $127 billion, face major threats that need immediate attention. Count Down looks at today’s model and proposes a new Big Audit, fit to serve the capital markets of the 21st century.

Download or read book Plunkett s Consulting Industry Almanac 2007 Consulting Industry Market Research Statistics Trends Leading Companies written by Jack W. Plunkett and published by Plunkett Research, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers trends in consulting in such fields as marketing, information technology, management, logistics, supply chain, manufacturing and health care. This guide contains contacts for business and industry leaders, industry associations, Internet sites and other resources. It also includes statistical tables, an industry glossary and indexes.

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Download or read book Inside the World s Largest Legal Employer written by John Okray and published by Lawyerup Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the U.S. Government, Federal agencies employ tens of thousands of legal professionals, including general attorneys, patent attorneys, administrative law judges and law clerks. Over 35,000 legal jobs across approximately one hundred entities are covered including all Cabinet level agencies and large, medium and small independent agencies.The book provides a straightforward guide for attorneys, judges and law students who may be interested in employment in U.S. Federal agencies. It will answer questions, such as:• How many attorneys, judges and law clerks are employed within each agency?• What do these agencies do and what roles and responsibilities do attorneys have?• What are the specific attorney compensation levels within each agency?• Where can I find information on agency-specific law clerk, new attorney and experienced attorney hiring programs?• In what States, territories or foreign countries are agency attorneys located?• Where can I find attorney employment statistics for each agency - male/female, minority employment, etc.'Across the spectrum of agencies and departments there is an incredible amount of diversity of legal careers. Attorneys of almost all disciples work on legal topics including but not limited to civil rights, labor and employment, ethics, elections, criminal law, environmental conservation and protection, natural resources, foreign affairs, international trade, national security, military, agriculture, education, contracts, taxation, transportation, banking, finance, securities, communications, intellectual property, science and technology, health, housing and consumer safety.Inside the World's Largest Legal Employer: Careers and Compensation with U.S. Federal Agencies is the premier reference book on Federal agency legal employment.

Download or read book Fraud and Corruption written by Duncan Smith and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses and analyses fraud and corruption cases from many industries including construction, finance, pharmaceutical, transport, retail, medical, health, communication, education and military. The book is divided into two sections. The first part presents case studies that cover several industry sectors, including not only well-known frauds like Bernie Madoff, Wells Fargo and the Enron case, but also recent events such as the Theranos/Elisabeth Holmes case. The second section of the book includes materials on fraud and corruption such as the full text of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business, and the EIB’s Anti-Fraud Policy and Whistleblowing Policy. It also includes examples about current corporate anti-corruption policies from companies like Apple, Tesla and Coca Cola. For interested readers, the book offers additionally a list of films that realistically cover the topics fraud, corruption and whistleblowing.