
The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of Global Accounting Monopoly
$42.75
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
2 April 2018
Summary
The Big Four: Unveiling the Global Accounting Monopoly
Across the globe, the so-called Big Four accounting and audit firms - Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG - are massively influential. Together, they earn more than US$100 billion annually and employ almost one million people. In many profound ways, they have changed how we work, how we manage, how we invest and how we are governed.
Stretching back centuries, their history is a fascinating story…
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9781863959964 |
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ISBN-10: | 1863959963 |
Author: | Stuart Kells, Ian D. Gow |
Publisher: | Black Inc. |
Imprint: | La Trobe University Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Number of Pages: | 272 |
Release Date: | 2 April 2018 |
Weight: | 410g |
Dimensions: | 233mm x 155mm x 31mm |
About The Author
Stuart Kells
Stuart Kells’ book Penguin and the Lane Brothers won the 2015 Ashurst Australian Business Literature Prize. He was formerly Assistant Auditor-General of the state of Victoria, and a director at KPMG. He also worked at Deloitte, S.G. Warburg and PPB Advisory. He has a PhD in law from Monash University.
Ian D. Gow is currently at Harvard Business School and will soon take up a professorship at the University of Melbourne. Before Harvard, he held positions at Morgan Stanley, General Motors, Stern Stewart & Co. and Andersen Consulting. He has a PhD in business from Stanford University, an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and degrees in commerce and law from UNSW.
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