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• Zale Announces Change in Auditors

  - 2008-05-01

  DALLAS -- Zale Corporation (NYSE: ZLC), a leading specialty retailer of fine jewelry in North America, today announced that it has engaged Ernst & Young to serve as the Company's independent public accountants for the fiscal year ending July 31, 2008. Ernst & Young will replace KPMG. The Company...

  Tags: Company, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, KPMG Consulting Inc., Zale Corp.

• 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

• A group of auditing firms including Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, BDO International and Grant Thornton collaborated on a report that insists liability standards should be eased for accounting firms and that compan

  - 2007-02-01

  A group of auditing firms including Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, BDO International and Grant Thornton collaborated on a report that insists liability standards should be eased for accounting firms and that companies and investors should face higher charges for forensic audits, which are more likely to...

  Tags: accounting, audit, auditing, Deloitte LLP, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, fraud, investor, KPMG Consulting Inc., Litigation, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, standards

• $17m gone from books, says chemists operator.

  - 2006-08-14

  Byline: Michael Evans Aug 14, 2006 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian Pharmaceutical Industries on 14 August 2006 finally announced its unaudited net profit, after a lengthy delay. The company's stock had been placed in a trading halt due to...

  Tags: accountant, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Investment, KPMG Consulting Inc.

• Beats me! AusPharm loses $17m somewhere.

  - 2006-08-14

  Byline: Michael Evans Aug 14, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian Pharmaceutical Industries on 14 August 2006 finally announced its unaudited net profit, after a lengthy delay. The company's stock had been placed in a trading halt due...

  Tags: accountant, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, financial, KPMG Consulting Inc.

• Full steam ahead on immigration system.

  - 2006-05-14

  Byline: Rachel Lebihan May 14, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Government is overhauling its immigration detention computer system. The Department of Immigration & Multicultural Affairs is replacing its old technology with the "Systems of People"...

  Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, INTERNET, KPMG Consulting Inc., Portals, PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy

• Tax camp: it all adds up to a good time.

  - 2006-04-20

  Byline: Matthew Coghlan Apr 20, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- KPMG's tax camp for graduate recruits helps new employees to "hit the ground running". The six-day intensive training camp aims to dispel any complacency recruits may have regarding...

  Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, KPMG Consulting Inc., Taxes

• 2006 Top 100 Firms Databank

  - 2006-04-01

  OVERVIEW Firms over % Firms over % Firms under % Total Top % $1 bn chg. $100 mn chg. $100 mn chg. 100 Firms chg. Revenue (in $ mn) $30,550.33 14.62 $4,247.79 16.82 $3,292.57 16.49 $38,090.69 15.02 Partners 9,072 5.45 2,291 2.92 3,890 18.67 15,253 8.12 Professionals 78,098...

  Tags: Deloitte LLP, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, KPMG Consulting Inc., PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, revenue, Taxes

• 2006 Top 100 Firms Databank

  - 2006-03-01

  OVERVIEW Firms over % Firms over % Firms under % Total Top % $1 bn chg. $100 mn chg. $100 mn chg. 100 Firms chg. Revenue (in $ mn) $30,550.33 14.62 $4,247.79 16.82 $3,292.57 16.49 $38,090.69 15.02 Partners 9,072 5.45 2,291 2.92 3,890 18.67 15,253 8.12 Professionals 78,098...

  Tags: Deloitte LLP, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, KPMG Consulting Inc., PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, revenue, Taxes

• Big four under fire from all quarters.(Deloitte & Touche AB, Ernst & Young L.L.P., KPMG L.L.P. (London, England), PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P. investigated at American International Group Inc.)

  - 2005-09-01

  Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers are fighting to prevent another Andersen-style meltdown as they all face the possibility of damaging prosecutions. Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers are fighting to prevent another Andersen-style meltdown as they all face the ...

  Tags: KPMG Consulting Inc., Deloitte LLP, Ernst & Young LLP, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, American International Group Inc.