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News has come out from Guardian that KPMG partner pay was cut 11% in the UK. The pay was cut for 582 KPMG partners in the UK. They now received an average of £572,000

KPMG finally released their global results. They weren’t supposed to announce it until later in 2021, but I guess they couldn’t wait anymore. They announced revenues of 29.22 billion. This compares to revenue of

According to the Telegraph UK, there are at least 2,000 Chinese communists that work for the big 4 accounting firms - Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG. The crazy part is that this is only

Punit Renjen says that Deloitte will double its workforce in India. Punit Renjen recently did an interview with the Hindustan times during their leadership summit. He spoke about his background from India, and how

Accounting today ran an article last week that 80% of companies are reporting SDG’s in their financial statements. We talked about this in previous posts and podcasts when we discussed ESG reporting and how

Deloitte has made tons of acquisitions in the past year and a great website has compiled all of them in the IT service provider market. The website is channele2e.com. Channel E2E ranks Deloitte in

BDO just released their 2020 results They reported 10.3 billion in revenue for their fiscal 2020 year. This represents a 7.8% increase in revenue from 2019. The number of employees increased to 91,054 employees

Deloitte has announced some good news for once. They announced that they are going to be repay the entire pay cut in Australia. This is because they had such good results. As you might

The Australian Financial review recently had an article about issues facing KPMG’s mandatory retirement age in Australia. The reason that this story is coming out because a lawyer for KPMG sent an email that

KPMG recently announced in a press release that they want to be carbon neutral by 2030. This comes on the heels of us discussing EY’s global metrics and adherence to ESG principles. This is

Deloitte Restructuring Sale Deloitte is putting up its restructuring arm up for sale. This is happening in the UK. Daniel Butters has told everyone that he is going to start discussions with private equity

KPMG Partners with CoinMetrics KPMG has partnered with a firm called coinmetrics. The partnership will focus on Atlas and Farum from coinmetrics. It will also focus on Chain Fusion from KPMG. The purpose of

After the tragic death of George Floyd there were coordinated protests around the world even though the event happened in the United States. This pushed a move for diversity and other social justice movements

Deloitte Plans to close four locations in the UK permanently. Deloitte plans to shut down their gatwick, liverpool, nottingham and southampton locations. These are 4 offices out of 50 in the UK for Deloitte.

With all the craziness going on in the big 4 accounting firms right now, I wanted to highlight an area of growth. We’ve been talking a lot about layoffs and downsizing, but overall the

BDO recently released their 2020 results for their US firm. They announced $1.8 billion in revenue for the year ending April 30, 2020. This obviously does not include most of the problems related to

EY as part of the year end financial review mentioned a business school that they have. They have a Tech MBA that they are offering all their employees. Ey says that it is open

Deloitte partners released their salaries as part of their 2020 financial release. Before we get to the pay cut let's discuss their overall financial results. Deloitte UK results were 4.31 billion pounds in 2020

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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