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• Caught in the middle

  - 2007-02-01

  BIG FOUR FIRMS HAVE TRADITIONALLY AIMED HIGH. BUT NOW THAT THEY'RE TURNING THEIR ATTENTION TO THE MIDDLE MARKET, JUST WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE MID-TIER FIRMS? Something's in the air. First Big Four firm Deloitte swooped on the Melbourne office of mid-tier firm BDO. Not long after it scooped...

  Tags: accountancy, Australia, Deloitte LLP, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Government, Investment, KPMG Consulting Inc., merger, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, Strategy

• Back to basics; Accountancy and law.

  - 2003-11-15

  The aspirations of accountancy firms in the law are faltering KPMG was the last of the big accountancy firms to enter the legal arena, and is the first to throw in the towel. On November 7th the firm announced it would cut its ties with...

  Tags: accountancy, accountant, accounting, America, Ernst & Young LLP, KPMG Consulting Inc., lawyer, Litigation, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting

• Bean-counters unite: the mergers of Ernst & Young and KPMG to create the world's largest accountancy firm affects business everywhere, and not necessarily for the better.(Business)

  - 1997-10-25

  The merger of Ernst & Young (E&Y) and KPMG is likely to generate several problems. For example, it may difficult to get the two giants to work together considering that they had been rivals. A mega-accountancy firm's ability to remain objective raThe merger of Ernst & Young (E&Y) and KPMG...

  Tags: accountancy, Ernst & Young LLP, KPMG Consulting Inc., merger