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| big 8 accounting: The Big Four Stuart Kells, Ian D. Gow, 2018-05-03 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 of wealth, power and luck. But 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. Both colourful and authoritative, 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 in the industry, contemplating joining a professional services firm, or simply curious about the fate of the global economy. Stuart Kells is a Melbourne-based author. His history of Penguin Books, Penguin and the Lane Brothers, won the Ashurst Australian Business Literature Prize. Ian D. Gow is a professor at the University of Melbourne and Director of the Melbourne Centre for Corporate Governance and Regulation. He previously taught at Harvard Business School. |
| big 8 accounting: The Big Eight Mark Stevens, 2010-05-11 Provides an inside look at eight of the most influential accounting firms in the United States, examining their pivotal roles in the world of national and international finance. |
| big 8 accounting: Count Down Jim Peterson, 2017-07-03 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. |
| big 8 accounting: Accounting and Auditing Practices and Procedures United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Reports, Accounting, and Management, 1977 |
| big 8 accounting: The Accounting Establishment United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Reports, Accounting, and Management, 1976 |
| big 8 accounting: Reform and Self-regulation Efforts of the Accounting Profession United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, 1978 |
| big 8 accounting: Summary of the Accounting Establishment United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Reports, Accounting, and Management, 1976 |
| big 8 accounting: Hearings United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 1971 |
| big 8 accounting: Enron Loren Fox, 2003-12-22 I'd say you were a carnival barker, except that wouldn't be fair tocarnival barkers. A carnie will at least tell you up front that he's running a shell game. You, Mr. Lay, were running what purported to be the seventh largest corporation in America.-Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL) to Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, Senate Commerce Science & Transportation's Subcommittee, Hearing on Enron, 2/12/02 The speed of Enron's rise and fall is truly astonishing and perhaps the single most important story of corporate failure in the twenty-first century. In Enron investigative journalist Loren Fox promises readers nothing short of the most compelling and insightful investigation into Enron's meteoric ascent-regarded by Wall Street and the media as the epitome of innovation-and its spectacular fall from grace. In a lively and authoritative manner, Fox discusses how the biggest corporate bankruptcy in American business history happened, why for so long no one (except for an enlightened few) saw it coming, and what its impact will be on financial markets, the U.S. economy, U.S. energy policy, and the public for years to come. With access to many company insiders, Fox's intriguing account of this corporate debacle also provides an overview of the corporate culture and business model that led to Enron's high-flying success and disastrous failure. The story of Enron is one that will reverberate in global financial and energy markets as well as in criminal and civil courts for years to come. Rife with all the elements of a classic thriller-scandal, dishonest accounting, personal greed, questionable campaign contributions, suicide-Enron captures the essence of a company that went too far too fast. |
| big 8 accounting: The Adventures of an Accountant Clarence D. Hein, 2009-03 How does a struggling farmer eventually become a named partner in his own accounting firm? Do what Clarence Hein did: keep trying. Fiercely intelligent yet humbly grateful, Hein is a man of quiet humor and admirable principles. The Adventures of an Accountantconversationally takes us from his (not very successful) early career as a beet farmer in Montana to the founding, and ultimate triumph, of Hein & Associates, LLP, an accounting firm with modest beginnings that, through Clarence's integrity, guidance, and persistence has become the successful and well-respected institution it is today. Hein's forty-two years as a public accountant also serve to show us a fascinating cross section of the accounting profession in general. A true pioneer, Hein demonstrates through his memoirs his insatiable drive to succeed in spite of whatever initial or continuing obstacles he encounters. In what will surely be an inspiration to his readers, Hein's The Adventures of an Accountant reminds us that dreams are always possible -- and that life is beautiful, fulfilling, and surprising. |
| big 8 accounting: The Interface of Accounting Education and Professional Training Elaine Evans, Roger Juchau, Richard M.S. Wilson, 2014-07-16 Over many decades the global development of professional accounting education programmes has been undertaken by higher education institutions, professional accounting bodies, and employers. These institutions have sometimes co-operated and sometimes been in conflict over the education and/or training of future accounting professionals. These ongoing problems of linkage and closure between academic accounting education and professional training have new currency because of pressures from students and employers to move accounting preparation onto a more efficient, economic and practical basis. The Interface of Accounting Education and Professional Training explores current elements of the interface between the academic education and professional training of accountants in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK. It argues for a reassessment of the considerations and requirements for developing professional accounting programs which can make a student: capable of being an accountant (the academy); ready to be an accountant (the workplace); and professional in being an accountant (the professional bodies). This book was originally published as a special issue of Accounting Education: An International Journal. |
| big 8 accounting: Study of the Securities Industry United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce and Finance, 1971 |
| big 8 accounting: Value Maps Warren D. Miller, 2010-05-13 Praise for VALUE MAPS Equivocator, Explorer, Experimenter, Exploiter, Extender—Chapter 12 might be well served as mandatory reading for all subject matter experts! SPARC is not a valuation, per se, but rather a separate consulting engagement that might interest a client—especially if that client is preparing for a sale or planning an exit strategy. Miller has taken the good ideas from five disciplines and married them with value enhancement, creating what could become a very good 'add-on' consulting engagement. NACVA recommends, and looks forward to, further dialogue related to this new approach. This book will open your eyes to new opportunities. —Parnell Black, MBA, CPA, CVA, Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA) No one illuminates the murky intersection where business strategy and private company value creation meet better than Warren Miller. Now he's focused his extensive professional training and real-world experience to produce this intellectually rich, yet down-to-earth and fun-to-read road map we can all use. Business owners and leaders, financial analysts, management consultants, wealth managers, CPAs, business brokers, private equity investors, business appraisers—no one should plan to increase the value of an enterprise without Value Maps in their passenger seat. —David Foster, CEO, Business Valuation Resources Private-equity analysts do not often come across scholarly and technical professional reading laced with laugh-out-loud moments! Yet this is exactly what one finds in Value Maps. Warren Miller's advice stems from his career as a finance executive, a CPA, a valuation analyst, and a 'recovering academic.' With pitch-perfect balance, Warren has created both a must-have professional reference guide and a best-practices road map designed to enhance the profitability of your client's business and your own—all in a very readable style with just a 'spoon-full of sugar.' Enjoy the read! —Gary M. Karlitz, ASA, CPA, Partner-in-Charge, Valuation Services, Forensic Services, and Forensic Accounting, Citrin Cooperman & Company, LLP Extremely readable, with numerous real-world examples—valuation specialists who don't read this book will soon be looking for a new profession. Miller takes the term 'valuation' to new levels, suggesting that appraisers can indeed add real value to their clients' businesses. Clients should demand that a valuation professional read this book before he or she will be hired. —Alfred M. King, Vice Chairman, Marshall & Stevens, Inc. |
| big 8 accounting: Word Smart for Business Paul Westbrook, 1997 Cultivating a Six-Figure Vocabulary Over 4,000 business terms defined Entries from every field: Accounting, Management, Law, Real Estate, Computers, Math, Government, and more |
| big 8 accounting: Middle Distillate Fuels United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Restraint of Trade Activities Affecting Small Business, 1979 |
| big 8 accounting: Final Accounting Barbara Ley Toffler, Jennifer Reingold, 2003-03-04 A withering exposé of the unethical practices that triggered the indictment and collapse of the legendary accounting firm. Arthur Andersen's conviction on obstruction of justice charges related to the Enron debacle spelled the abrupt end of the 88-year-old accounting firm. Until recently, the venerable firm had been regarded as the accounting profession's conscience. In Final Accounting, Barbara Ley Toffler, former Andersen partner-in-charge of Andersen's Ethics & Responsible Business Practices consulting services, reveals that the symptoms of Andersen's fatal disease were evident long before Enron. Drawing on her expertise as a social scientist and her experience as an Andersen insider, Toffler chronicles how a culture of arrogance and greed infected her company and led to enormous lapses in judgment among her peers. Final Accounting exposes the slow deterioration of values that led not only to Enron but also to the earlier financial scandals of other Andersen clients, including Sunbeam and Waste Management, and illustrates the practices that paved the way for the accounting fiascos at WorldCom and other major companies. Chronicling the inner workings of Andersen at the height of its success, Toffler reveals the making of an Android, the peculiar process of employee indoctrination into the Andersen culture; how Androids—both accountants and consultants--lived the mantra keep the client happy; and how internal infighting and billing your brains out rather than quality work became the all-important goals. Toffler was in a position to know when something was wrong. In her earlier role as ethics consultant, she worked with over 60 major companies and was an internationally renowned expert at spotting and correcting ethical lapses. Toffler traces the roots of Andersen's ethical missteps, and shows the gradual decay of a once-proud culture. Uniquely qualified to discuss the personalities and principles behind one of the greatest shake-ups in United States history, Toffler delivers a chilling report with important ramifications for CEOs and individual investors alike. |
| big 8 accounting: CPA Practice Management Pro Tips Fred Lindsley, 2015-01-01 Effective Practice Management – CPA and Other Find out how your firm can generate greater profits through efficiency, accurate billing and staff management. Industry leading CPA and Software Developer, Fred Lindsley, shares his insights and experiences regarding CPA practice management, time keeping and billing. How to start your Accounting Firm in Four Steps Software Solutions to Common Practice Management Pitfalls Practice Managements Essentials Effective Practice Management Reporting Minimizes Write-Offs and Write-Downs The Auditor’s Dilemma – The Temptation to Compromise Principles for Money Value Billing or Time and Billing for the Local CPA |
| big 8 accounting: Profitability, Accounting Theory and Methodology Geoffrey Whittington, 2007-06-11 An important scholar in the history of accounting, Geoffrey Whittington's numerous articles cover a broad spectrum of the field and are both sharply insightful and extremely significant. He has made important contributions to the topics of inflation accounting, accounting theory and methodology and standard-setting, and he has conducted a number of valuable empirical studies. This remarkable collection pulls together essays and articles and encompasses his work on empirical studies based on company accounts, specification of empirical models, price change accounting, taxation and regulation, and regulation of accounting and auditing. Accompanied by a new introduction and conclusion, this significant volume will be extremely useful for historians of accounting as well as accountancy practitioners and researchers. |
| big 8 accounting: Advances in Accounting Education Bill N. Schwartz, Anthony H. CatanachJr., 2008-06-27 Explains how faculty members can improve their teaching methods or how accounting units can improve their curricula/programs. |
| big 8 accounting: General Review of Major SBA Programs and Activities United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Minority Enterprise and General Oversight, 1978 |
| big 8 accounting: Advances in Accounting Education Thomas G. Calderon, 2018-12-14 Advances in Accounting Education is a refereed, academic research publication whose purpose is to help meet the needs of faculty members interested in ways to improve accounting classroom instruction at the college and university level. |
| big 8 accounting: Oversight on the Implementation of Public Law 95-507 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on General Oversight and Minority Enterprise. Task Force on Minority Enterprise, 1979 |
| big 8 accounting: Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies appropriations for 1987 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies, 1986 |
| big 8 accounting: The Effects of Greater Economic Integration Within the European Community on the United States , 1989 |
| big 8 accounting: The FASB Conceptual Framework Project, 1973-1985 Pelham Gore, 1992 This work investigates why the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Conceptual Framework Project (1973-1985), which sought to set down financial reporting standards for accounting, attracted so much criticism. The author suggests that a CF is expected to bear too heavy a load, but that it cannot furnish the answer to all financial accounting ills. He believes that the best contribution that a CF can offer is that it can provide a focus to the debate that leads to a new financial reporting standard. |
| big 8 accounting: Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1992: Department of Commerce, Department of Transportation United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies, 1991 |
| big 8 accounting: Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1992 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies, 1991 |
| big 8 accounting: ‘Counting Black and White Beans’ Anton Lewis, 2020-10-26 Across the US and the UK, few senior accountants exist in proportion to their white peers. This problem is overwhelmingly disregarded due to an inherent assumption of racial neutrality within the field of accountancy. This book unpacks the working experience of black accountants to highlight the existence of institutionalized racism. |
| big 8 accounting: SEC and corporate audits United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, 1985 |
| big 8 accounting: Mirror, Mirror Elaine Hatfield, Susan Sprecher, 1986-01-01 Mirror, Mirror... examines the hidden truth about good looks. Through extensive research of scholarly studies and popular culture, the authors provide a lively and comprehensive view of what behavioral scientists have learned about the effects of personal appearance. A wealth of illustrations and photographs give visual support to the evidence presented. The book explores the view that people believe good-looking individuals possess almost all the virtues known to humankind; consequently, they treat the good-looking and ugly very differently. Mirror, Mirror reviews the stereotypes held about people with specific characteristics and it explains the impact of height, weight, and attributes such as hair color, eye color and facial hair on the course of social encounters. The authors show that through time these reaction patterns have their effect and that good-looking and unattractive persons come to be different types of people. To show the relative nature of concepts of beauty, the authors also present examples of what other cultures consider attractive. |
| big 8 accounting: Oversight of the Accounting Profession United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Governmental Efficiency and the District of Columbia, 1979 |
| big 8 accounting: The Routledge Companion to Accounting Education Richard M.S. Wilson, 2014-04-29 Many enquiries into the state of accounting education/training, undertaken in several countries over the past 40 years, have warned that it must change if it is to be made more relevant to students, to the accounting profession, and to stakeholders in the wider community. This book’s over-riding aim is to provide a comprehensive and authoritative source of reference which defines the domain of accounting education/training, and which provides a critical overview of the state of this domain (including emerging and cutting edge issues) as a foundation for facilitating improved accounting education/training scholarship and research in order to enhance the educational base of accounting practice. The Routledge Companion to Accounting Education highlights the key drivers of change - whether in the field of practice on the one hand (e.g. increased regulation, globalisation, risk, and complexity), or from developments in the academy on the other (e.g. pressures to embed technology within the classroom, or to meet accreditation criteria) on the other. Thirty chapters, written by leading scholars from around the world, are grouped into seven themed sections which focus on different facets of their respective themes – including student, curriculum, pedagogic, and assessment considerations. |
| big 8 accounting: Wait, I Have a Story about That. Mike Policano, 2008-03 I am very surprised; I liked it.-Ann Seve Brienza, proofreader I really didn't want to read it.-Gail Steinel, future author Sure, he plays a 100 rounds of golf, spends hours and hours on this book. But, can he help around the house?-Mary, Mike's wife A real page turner. I will finish it next week.-Former co-worker I have had the book for two months. I can't wait to get to it.-Joan, Mike's long-time friend I couldn't put it down!-Mark Fogel, faux editior I couldn't pick it up.-Diane, long-time friend I didn't want to read it either.-Bob O'Shea, consigliere client Mike wrote a book?-Mike's mother I am really glad Mike isn't in London anymore. Now I don't have to listen to his stories over and over.-Finbarr O'Connor, head of European distribution of the book |
| big 8 accounting: Expert Witnessing in Forensic Accounting Zeph Telpner, Michael Mostek, 2002-06-26 From opposing the local CPA to tackling the Big Five - Everything you need to know about accounting in the courtroom With the recent boom in litigation and malpractice charges concerning tax, accounting, financial litigation, and fraud disputes, more and more accounting professionals are being hired as expert witnesses. Yet, few lawyers have |
| big 8 accounting: Nomination of James E. Cason United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, 1991 |
| big 8 accounting: Trade in Services , 1986 |
| big 8 accounting: Report on the Big Eight , 1986 |
| big 8 accounting: The Routledge Companion to Accounting History John Richard Edwards, Stephen Walker, 2020-04-15 The Routledge Companion to Accounting History presents a single-volume synthesis of research in this expanding field, exploring and analysing accounting from ancient civilisations to the modern day. No longer perceived as the narrow study of how a mysterious technique was used in past, the scope of accounting history has widened substantially. This revised and updated volume moves beyond the history of accounting technologies, accounting theories and practices and the accountants who applied them. Expert contributors from around the world explore the interfaces between accounting and the economy, society, culture and the polity. Accounting history is shown to offer important insights into such disparate phenomena as the evolution of capitalism, control of labour, gender and family relationships, racial exploitation, the operation of religious organisations, and the functioning of the state. Illuminating the foundation and development of accounting systems, this updated, classic book opens the field to a new generation of accounting scholars and historians around the world. |
| big 8 accounting: A History of Canadian Accounting Thought and Practice George J. Murphy, 2020-09-04 This book, first published in 1993, focuses on the evolution of accounting institutions, practices and standard-setting in Canada. Canada’s federal system complicates the jurisdictional authority for accounting matters. The Canadian constitution empowers the ten provinces to regulate the training and certification of accountants, and each can incorporate organizations. A great deal of effort has been made by accounting bodies on jurisdictional coordination and disputes, and this book analyses how these systems have come to function in their present form. |
| big 8 accounting: Taxpayer Safeguards United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight, 1983 |
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