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The Big Four

Author : Ian D. Gow
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1523098031
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Big Four written by Ian D. Gow and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Messrs. Gow and Kells have made an invaluable contribution, writing in an amused tone that nevertheless acknowledges the firms' immense power and the seriousness of their neglect of traditional responsibilities. 'The Big Four' will appeal to all those interested in the future of the profession--and of capitalism itself." —Jane Gleeson-White, Wall Street Journal With staffs that are collectively larger than the Russian army and combined revenues of over $130 billion a year, the Big Four accounting firms—Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG—are a keystone of global commerce. But leading scholar Ian Gow and award-winning author Stuart Kells warn that a house of cards may be about to fall. Stretching back to the Medicis in Renaissance Florence, this book is a fascinating story of wealth, power, and luck. The founders of the Big Four lived surprisingly colorful lives. Samuel Price, for example, married his own niece. Between the world wars, Nicholas Waterhouse collected postage stamps while also hosting decadent parties in his fashionable London home. All four firms have endured major calamities in recent decades. There have been hundreds of court cases and legal prosecutions for failed audits, tax scandals, and breaches of independence. The firms have come so close to “extinction level events” that regulators have required them to prepare “living wills.” And today, the Big Four face an uncertain future—thanks to their push into China, their vulnerability to digital disruption and competition, and the hazards of providing traditional services in a new era of transparency. This account of the past, present, and likely future of the Big Four is essential reading for anyone perplexed or fascinated by professional services, working or considering working in the industry, or simply curious about the fate of the global economy.

South of the Big Four

Author : Don Kurtz
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452137056
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book South of the Big Four written by Don Kurtz and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South of the Big Four is a gracefully told, arresting look at an America in which the center no longer holds, where a new kind of forgiveness and understanding must be found. In the tradition of A Thousand Acres and A Map of the World, the novel's sudden truths and lasting images transcend the daily lives of its Midwestern characters to create a penetrating, resonant story, made all the more remarkable because it is the author's debut.

Count Down

Author : Jim Peterson
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787147010
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Count Down written by Jim Peterson and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enron killed Arthur Andersen in 2002, leaving only Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC. Now the Big Four, with a total revenue of $127 billion, face major threats that need immediate attention. Count Down looks at today’s model and proposes a new Big Audit, fit to serve the capital markets of the 21st century.

The Big Four

Author : S. Joseph Kidder
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN 13 : 0828025215
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Big Four written by S. Joseph Kidder and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the early Christians leave such a profound impact on their world? And how can we, 2,000 years later, follow in their footsteps? The Big Four thoroughly explores four key secrets that not only made the early church a success but also produced thriving Seventh-day Adventist churches that are rapidly growing the kingdom of heaven. No matter who you are, The Big Four's inspiring stories and practical, proven methods will equip you to experience personal and collective revival, ultimately leading to powerful ministry and evangelism.

Disruption in the Audit Market

Author : Krish Bhaskar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000007863
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disruption in the Audit Market written by Krish Bhaskar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing on the dominance of the Big Four auditing firms – PwC, EY, Deloitte and KPMG – this concise volume provides an authoritative critical assessment of the state and future of the audit market, currently the subject of much debate and the focus of significant government enquiries. Drawing on extensive research and a vast collection of evidence from interviews with insiders, experts and users, it explores the key issues of audit quality, independence, choice and the growing expectation gap. Just as disruptive technologies are overturning other established sectors, this book explores their impact on accounting, financial reporting and auditing. It questions whether the Big Four-dominated audit market is prepared not only for the inevitable disruption of new technologies, but also the challenges of negative public perceptions, cynicism about regulation and demands for greater transparency. In the context of increasing high-profile corporate failures, this book provides a compelling scrutiny of the industry’s failings and present difficulties, and the impact of future disruption. At this crucial time, it will be of great interest to students, researchers and professionals in accounting and auditing, as well as policy makers and regulators.

The Four

Author : Scott Galloway
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735213666
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Four written by Scott Galloway and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all that’s been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway. Instead of buying the myths these companies broadcast, Galloway asks fundamental questions. How did the Four infiltrate our lives so completely that they’re almost impossible to avoid (or boycott)? Why does the stock market forgive them for sins that would destroy other firms? And as they race to become the world’s first trillion-dollar company, can anyone challenge them? In the same irreverent style that has made him one of the world’s most celebrated business professors, Galloway deconstructs the strategies of the Four that lurk beneath their shiny veneers. He shows how they manipulate the fundamental emotional needs that have driven us since our ancestors lived in caves, at a speed and scope others can’t match. And he reveals how you can apply the lessons of their ascent to your own business or career. Whether you want to compete with them, do business with them, or simply live in the world they dominate, you need to understand the Four.

The Big Four

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007250657
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Big Four written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Hastings doesn't like it when his friend, Hercule Poirot, is sent off by a stranger on a round-the-world trip to solve crimes about criminal masterminds with exotic code names. But he receives the shock of all time when Hercule's twin brother turns up to tell him of his friends tragic death!.

The Women's Health Big Book of Abs

Author : Adam Bornstein
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1609618211
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Women's Health Big Book of Abs written by Adam Bornstein and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential diet and fitness guide to lean, sexy abs-including a results-driven 4-week program to lose weight, strengthen your core, and tone your entire body. Call it a spare tire, muffin top, or paunch. Men and women consistently cite their belly as their biggest problem area-and it is often the toughest final pounds to lose. Not anymore! Whether readers' eating habits have been affected by stress, their bodies have changed with age, or they're constantly doing crunches without results, it's time to blast belly fat the right way. Using the comprehensive, week-by-week eating and exercise plan, readers can lose up to 20 pounds in 4 weeks-and keep it off, forever. The Women's Health Big Book of Abs special features include: - A delicious, easy-to-follow diet that includes satisfying carbs! - A special section on the best pre- and post-pregnancy workouts - Hundreds of tips on how to reveal a lean, flat belly and bikini-worthy body! Including a step-by-step, 4-week eating and exercise plan, easy-to-prepare recipes, and hundreds of exercises, The Men's Health Big Book of Abs and The Women's Health Big Book of Abs by Adam Bornstein and the Editors of Women's Health is the ultimate guide to a leaner, fitter, sexier body-starting with your core.

El Arroyo's Big Book of Signs Volume One

Author : Cozumel Publishing Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692979303
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book El Arroyo's Big Book of Signs Volume One written by Cozumel Publishing Company and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tex-Mex restaurant's famous marquee sign, whose black letters tell a new joke to passing motorists each day, is featured in "El Arroyo's Big Book of Signs: Volume One." 158 signs to enjoy8"x8" Hardback

How to Make Partner and Still Have a Life

Author : Heather Townsend
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0749498382
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book How to Make Partner and Still Have a Life written by Heather Townsend and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming a partner in a professional services firm is for many ambitious fee-earners the ultimate goal. But in this challenging industry, with long hours, high pressure and even higher expectations, how do you stand out from the crowd? How do you build the most effective relationships? And how do you find the time to do all of this and still have a fulfilling personal life? Now in its third edition, How to Make Partner and Still Have a Life equips individuals at the start of their career through to partner with the skills needed to reach and succeed at the leadership level. How to Make Partner and Still Have a Life details the expectations and realities of being a partner and outlines how you can continue to achieve once you have obtained the much-coveted role. This edition is updated with guidance on developing the right mindset for success and the importance of mentoring and sponsorship. There is a specific focus on women and BAME professionals and the challenges faced by individuals coming from non-traditional or under-represented backgrounds. Heather Townsend and Jo Larbie provide a guide to help you tackle common obstacles and work smarter - not harder - to reach the top. Start your journey to partnership and still have the time for a life outside of work.

The Big Four Railroad Barons

Author : Alton Pryor
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494953577
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book The Big Four Railroad Barons written by Alton Pryor and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Four, Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, and Charles Crocker, ruled California government for 30 years. The southern Pacific Railroad was the single largest corporation in California and controlled 85 percent of the state's railroad tracks. Huntington handed out bribes to legislators, local police and government officials with impunity. At political conventions, agents of the railroad freely circulated the convention floor and dominated the smoke-filled rooms, arranging the nomination of pro-railroad candidates.

The Big Four British Banks

Author : David Rogers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349277606
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book The Big Four British Banks written by David Rogers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cutting-edge exploration of the UK commercial banking industry, as reflected primarily in the experience of the four main clearing banks: Barclays, Lloyds, Midland and NatWest. What will the industry look like in the future? What strategies, cultures and organisational forms will distinguish the survivors from the non-survivors? Will the dominant form be the highly diversified, global, financial supermarket, the so-called universal bank, the more focused niche player, both, or some other type? To answer these questions, David Rogers draws upon very high level access to the leading players in this evolving industry.

The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California (Enterprise)

Author : Richard Rayner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393333612
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California (Enterprise) written by Richard Rayner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true-life tale of ruthless ambition, staggering greed, and the making of a nation. Four men--Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins--rose from their position as middle-class merchants to become the force behind the transcontinental railroad.

The Big Four

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008165000
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Big Four written by Agatha Christie and published by Collins. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special edition of Agatha Christie's early Poirot adventure novel containing the original 12-part short story version "The Man Who Was Number Four", unseen since 1924.

Parker Looks Up

Author : Parker Curry
Publisher : Aladdin
ISBN 13 : 1534451862
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Parker Looks Up written by Parker Curry and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller! A visit to Washington, DC’s National Portrait Gallery forever alters Parker Curry’s young life when she views First Lady Michelle Obama’s portrait. When Parker Curry came face-to-face with Amy Sherald’s transcendent portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery, she didn’t just see the First Lady of the United States. She saw a queen—one with dynamic self-assurance, regality, beauty, and truth who captured this young girl’s imagination. When a nearby museum-goer snapped a photo of a mesmerized Parker, it became an internet sensation. Inspired by this visit, Parker, and her mother, Jessica Curry, tell the story of a young girl and her family, whose trip to a museum becomes an extraordinary moment, in a moving picture book. Parker Looks Up follows Parker, along with her baby sister and her mother, and her best friend Gia and Gia’s mother, as they walk the halls of a museum, seeing paintings of everyone and everything from George Washington Carver to Frida Kahlo, exotic flowers to graceful ballerinas. Then, Parker walks by Sherald’s portrait of Michelle Obama…and almost passes it. But she stops...and looks up! Parker saw the possibility and promise, the hopes and dreams of herself in this powerful painting of Michelle Obama. An everyday moment became an extraordinary one…that continues to resonate its power, inspiration, and indelible impact. Because, as Jessica Curry said, “anything is possible regardless of race, class, or gender.” **FOREWORD BY ARTIST AMY SHERALD**

Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance

Author : Jane Gleeson-White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393089681
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance written by Jane Gleeson-White and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Lively history. . . . Show[s] double entry’s role in the creation of the accounting profession, and even of capitalism itself.”—The New Yorker Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers of modern finance. At the heart of the story is double-entry bookkeeping: the first system that allowed merchants to actually measure the worth of their businesses. Luca Pacioli—monk, mathematician, alchemist, and friend of Leonardo da Vinci—incorporated Arabic mathematics to formulate a system that could work across all trades and nations. As Jane Gleeson-White reveals, double-entry accounting was nothing short of revolutionary: it fueled the Renaissance, enabled capitalism to flourish, and created the global economy. John Maynard Keynes would use it to calculate GDP, the measure of a nation’s wealth. Yet double-entry accounting has had its failures. With the costs of sudden corporate collapses such as Enron and Lehman Brothers, and its disregard of environmental and human costs, the time may have come to re-create it for the future.

Disaster in the Boardroom

Author : Gerry Brown
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030916588
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Disaster in the Boardroom written by Gerry Brown and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why when companies come crashing down, do we hear of boards who have failed in their fiduciary duties? Or that they have been ignorant, complacent or downright complicit in these scandals and downfalls? Of course, corporate scandals are nothing new, nor are they limited to any one geography. They are a damning indictment of our systems of corporate governance around the world. And yet, despite this frequency, little or nothing changes. We shrug and move on, accepting they are an unavoidable part of the system that produces incredible wealth for economies and societies. But it should not be that way. Disaster in the Boardroom shows how boards can be better. Looking at why these scandals happen, authors Peterson and Brown present in-depth case studies of major global corporations – including recent contemporary scandals associated with companies such as BP, Facebook and Uber – using the optic of their unique, original and compelling ‘six dysfunctions of the board’ analysis to reveal their particularities but also how they can be overcome. In this book, Brown and Peterson explore common attributes of scandals such as lack of independence from management, missing key voices, cultural amplification, diffusion of responsibility, rule-bound cultures and groupthink. They also identify ways to strengthen boards, improve their culture and competence, and give directors and others the power to take action and ultimately prevent disasters from happening. Disaster in the Boardroom is essential reading for every executive in every boardroom, those aspiring to board positions as well as anyone interested in why boards fail. It has never been more important to pre-identify and eradicate these boardroom dysfunctions – not least so that their impacts upon society can better seen, understood, mitigated, and avoided.