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Big four Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC should return to auditing roots

Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PwC should be split into smaller firms and forced to return to their auditing roots, according the author of a second major book to be released this year on the big four accounting firms.

Big four Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC should return to auditing roots
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Big four Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC should return to auditing roots

The expansion of the big four into all manner of consulting, tax advice and even legal services means they have strayed too far from their original business of checking the financial books of their clients, according Richard Brooks, the author of Bean Counters and a veteran journalist at British satirical and current affairs magazine Private Eye.

Read the full article at the Australian Financial Review.

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