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Satyam Publishes Financials, India Seeks Auditor Liability – Impacts on Big Four

February 14, 2011 10:56

by Susan Black, Big4.com We have blogged extensively about the fraud at Satyam Computers, when it was exposed by a letter from its erstwhile Chairman Ramalinga Raju on January 7, 2009, and shocked investors all over the world....We’ve moved. Click here to go the full post at the new Big Four Blog...

Dubai World Chief Restructuring Officer Aidan Birkett, ex Deloitte, To Step Down

February 14, 2011 10:55

by John Fowler, Big4.com We have blogged earlier about how Aidan Birkett, who was a key managing director in Deloitte UK’s restructuring practice went first to help Dubai World when it surprised global markets on the eve of Thanksgiving 2009....We’ve moved. Click here to go the full post at the new...

KPMG, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Are Global Most Attractive Employers

February 14, 2011 10:51

Susan Black, Big4.com(blog) We have blogged earlier about Universum’s World Most Attractive Employer Survey and this year Universum says it best themselves, “Big 4 challenge Google’s position as the world’s most attractive employer 2010.”...We’ve moved. Click here to go the full post at the new Big...

Accenture Q4 Beats Street on Revenue and EPS, Confident Outlook, Shares Zoom

February 14, 2011 10:50

John Fowler, Big4.com(blog) Accenture (NYSE: ACN)’s Q4-2010 and FY 2010 financial results ending August 31, 2010 blew past Wall Street expectations. To add to this, Accenture projected double digit growth in 2011 revenue and 1% higher-than-previous-guidance growth in 2011 EPS. Investors loved it,...

Accenture And Deloitte Both Talk Jobs: 250,000 Each by 2015

February 14, 2011 10:32

Susan Black, Big4.com(blog) Just in the last few days, we have had two Big Four firms talk about big job numbers. Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Deloitte are both coincidentally talking about the magic number of 250,000 by 2015...We’ve moved. Click here to go the full post at the new Big Four Blog at...

UK Executives Feel Pinch Of Salary Freezes, Finds Deloitte

February 14, 2011 10:30

Rob Starr, Big4.com Times are tough all over for everyone. And when you read a Deloitte report that says over half the FTSE 350 companies will not increase the pay for their executives, you know that the pinch is being felt everywhere....We’ve moved. Click here to go the full post at the new Big...

London Tube To Go Down Monday, But No Worries, PwC Has Survival Advice!

February 14, 2011 10:25

John Fowler, Big4.com4 September 2010(blog) The London Underground (affectionately, the Tube) is going down at 5 pm Monday on September 6th 2010, as The National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers (RMT) goes on strike, which is likely to grind trains to a halt and affect millions of...

UK Employers Finding It Hard to Fill Key Job Vacancies Today, Says KPMG

February 14, 2011 10:17

Rob Starr, Big4.com25 August 2010(blog) Here’s another one for the truth is stranger than fiction file. According to a new report from KPMG UK, almost half of the British employers surveyed said that they were having a hard time filling open job vacancies. In fact 45% of the 600 that were surveyed...

FASB Chairman Herz, ex-PwC, Unexpectedly Retires. Seidman, ex-E&Y, Is Acting

February 14, 2011 10:16

Lisa Chapman, Big4.com25 August 2010(blog) We saw it yesterday buzzing around in the news, and also confirmed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) that its current chairman Robert Herz is retiring on his own accord almost two years before the end of his term, much to the surprise of...

Interest Rates To Hit Eight Percent By 2012? No Way Says Ernst And Young

February 14, 2011 10:14

Rob Starr, Big4.com25 August 2010(blog) Fair Investment.co.uk has an interesting story about how “Andrew Lilico, chief economist at Policy Exchange claims that interest rates could have to increase to eight per cent to combat the high inflation that will couple the boom he is predicting.”...We’ve...