Leaders of the big 4 accounting firms pwc, deloitte, ey and KPMG announced the new ESG (Environmental, social and governance) criteria. These ESG criteria will measure a company’s progress on things like greenhouse gases and diversity in the boardroom. They took these ESG standards from the UN. The UN first mentioned them in 2006.

Is EY Still Hiring? EY is hiring. They said they hired 76,000 people in 2020 from almost 2 million applicants They said they did most of their hiring virutally because of covid 19. In 2019 they had 284,018 employees. In 2020 they grew to 298,965 people. This means they grew by 14,947 15,000 internships

Deloitte has been fined in the UK by the FRC again. We know that the big 4 accounting firms have been frequent targets of the Financial Reporting Council in the UK. The firm was sanctioned and so were two of their partners. They were fined 19.4 million dollars which is a record fine by

Deloitte $47.6 billion PwC $43.0 billion EY $37.2 billion Pwc had growth of only 1.4% EY had growth of 4.1 Deloitte had growth of 5.5 What did we learn? This was actually good news. The big 4 accounting firms all did well considering covid 19. However what this shows is that many companies aren’t

Deloitte earned $47.6 billion in 2020 despite a bad economy. This is up from $46.2 billion in 2019. PwC only got up to 43 billion in the current year and EY is at $37 billion. Deloitte is pulling pretty far ahead here especially in a tough year. Deloitte breaks out there revenue into many

Ey released their 2020 revenue numbers on September 10, 2020. They reported revenues of 37.2 billion across the world. In 2019, they reported revenues of 36.4 billion. This means that revenues grew by only 800 million in 2020. That represents about 4% growth for EY. I’m sure they are pretty disappointed in this number,

The sydney morning herald in australia has a new news story involving the big 4 and pay cuts. As we’ve previously stated on this podcast, Australia is the most interesting country on the planet right now as it relates to the big 4 and also as it relates to the coronavirus. I think there

Deloitte has put their restructuring business in the UK up for sale. This comes after the big 4 are being forced to split up their audit and consulting businesses. The big 4 have said that it is becoming too hard to manage their conflicts of interest. This new regulation came about after the big

It is so important to plan your life and your career. We recently got a comment on our youtube channel from someone who said their internship is very easy and everyone is very friendly. That’s good news but that is not normal in the big 4. Trust me. If you feel very safe and

Deloitte has recently entered into a number of partnerships and has acquired interesting companies. We are going to be covering some of those in this article. Deloitte has acquired a marketing consultancy in India. They acquired Spatial Access which is a Mumbai-based media audit & advisory business. They were founded in 2003 as an