The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of Global Accounting Monopoly, 9781863959964
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Wealth, power, luck: the Big Four’s future hangs in the balance.

The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of Global Accounting Monopoly

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    272 pages

  • Release Date

    2 April 2018

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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
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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