The answer was consistent when PwC responded to questions regarding the “Matching Process” in the Frequently Asked Questions document provided to staff during the McKinsey designed “reorganization” of their support services function. There were three versions of the document over a two month period, from May to July, 2007, but the non-answer was the always […]
Photo Source Back in the summer of 2005, I joined the team that audits PwC the Firm, itself. I was thrilled. Although I was giving up being on my own and spending most of my time on Mexico and South America, I was joining what I thought at the time was a world-class firm, I […]
New chief of BDO challenges Big 4 BDO International could be a “credible challenger” to the Big 4 accounting firms, according to its new head. Jeremy Newman, newly appointed chief executive of the company, told the Financial Times that he sees a large opportunity in the market but that becoming a fifth tier to the […]
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” -Aristotle Although I usually agree wholeheartedly with Jonathan Weil, I […]
Senator Charles Schumer has a lot of nerve. He also has a strong belief that the US public is naive and gullible. At best, it’s comical that Senator Schumer is demanding action on the sub prime crisis from the accounting firms. After all, they pay him to protect their interests, not the other way around. […]
