https://big4accountingfirms.com We discuss news and topics about PwC, Deloitte, EY and KPMG Fri, 08 Dec 2017 05:15:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://big4accountingfirms.com/the-blog/kpmg-south-africa-scandal/#comment-191 Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:50:28 +0000 https://big4accountingfirms.com/?p=2816#comment-191 one scandal after the next with this firm. Going (not so far back) to the US Tax Shelter mess in 2003 to the insider trading fiascos to the inside information on PCAOB reports to this. When o When will it all end

]]> https://big4accountingfirms.com/the-blog/pwc-fired-oscars/#comment-45 Thu, 02 Mar 2017 22:14:29 +0000 https://big4accountingfirms.com/?p=1859#comment-45 Such a shame that she goes down too, when it sounds like he was the one who messed up. Hoping the Oscars takes it easy on PwC especially considering the unfortunate and racist skit Chris Rock did last year featuring three poor little kids that were “future PwC auditors”. That did reflect poorly on PwC. Lesson of the day….We all only have 100% of our attention to use. Multi tasking means you can’t pay attention 100% to anything.

]]> https://big4accountingfirms.com/the-blog/ernst-and-young-marketing-for-millennials/#comment-39 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 04:48:36 +0000 https://big4accountingfirms.com/the-blog/ernst-and-young-marketing-for-millennials/#comment-39 […] EY millennial recruits will be hopefully getting the better working world they were promised. […]

]]> https://big4accountingfirms.com/the-blog/kpmg-using-ai-to-audit/#comment-35 Sat, 04 Feb 2017 06:53:06 +0000 https://big4accountingfirms.com/the-blog/kpmg-using-ai-to-audit/#comment-35 “…is will the technology replace people…? ” To train the AI/ML model, humans (auditors) are still needed to create/update the training data set and this work is labour intensive. The training data set means the audit data and the expected outcome of the audit.

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