Kpmg has announced a change to their US benefits plan following a big increase in benefits from PwC. Paul Knopp, the KPMG US ceo announced the following benefits on his LinkedIn. KPMG will reduce employee health care premiums by 10% in 2022, with no change in the benefit levels, and introduce health care advocacy

PwC finally released their 2021 revenues. PwC grew their revenue from $43 billion to $45 billion. This represents growth of about 5%. This is in line with the same growth as Deloitte. Ey had 7.3% growth. Deloitte had $50 billion in revenue. EY had $40 billion in revenue so PwC is smack in the

In early October 2021, PwC announced that their employees in the U.S. can choose where to work. This means that employee can work virtually anywhere they want in the United States. They don't have to come into the office frequently as part of a return-to-office policy. PwC U.S. employees will have to let their

If you've been reading the news then you know about the Chinese real estate company Evergrande. Evergrande is having financial difficulties that could impact global markets. Well people are now finding out that PwC was their auditor. Multiple news sites are saying that PwC gave Evergrande a clean bill of health. This is not

KPMG receives huge fine in UK KPMG received a 13 million pound fine in the UK over work they performed for Starlight. Reportedly there was some collusion between KPMG partners and a private equity firm to force Starlight into insolvency so that the private equity firm could buy Starlight on the cheap. KPMG

KPMG Sued For $5.6 Billion In Malaysia KPMG is being sued for an audit they performed for 1MDB. 1MDB was an investment entity where the former prime minister was involved. 1MDB stands for 1Malaysia Development Berhad. There are 44 partners from KPMG that are involved in the lawsuit. KPMG audited them from 2010 -

PwC has announced that they will hire 100,000 employees over the next five years. They will hiring these employees globally. PwC plans to get many of these new hires from mergers and acquisitions of other firms and also from competitors. Bob Moritz spoke about this in an interview. They plan to hire 25,000 to

I recently received a question about partner growth in the big 4. The person was specifically asking about audit, but I wanted to review all lines of service. Audit is still making plenty of new partners when we look at PwC. However, PwC is growing their Advisory practice more than their audit practice.

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Biden Raising Taxes on "The Rich" U.S. President Biden is looking to raise the capital gains tax rates in the United States targeting the wealthy. This will increase business for the big 4 as “rich people” will look to offshore their investment activities. They will need smart accountants to do that. The big 4