Showing posts with label risk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label risk. Show all posts

Monday, June 21, 2010

KPMG Sells Another $600 MM of Lehman Asia Assets, But Long Road Ahead



Lisa Chapman, Big4.com
June 21, 2010

We have blogged extensively about PricewaterhouseCoopers’ role as the administrators or Lehman Brothers Europe, including their $24,000 per hour price tag to the bankrupt holding entity (http://www.big4.com/?page=blog_item&url=pwc-administration-of-lehman-translates-to-24000-per-hour-491).

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Big Four Firms Dominate UK’s Large Cap Market, Is Big Three Possible?



The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the UK’s independent regulator responsible for promoting confidence in corporate reporting and governance just published its Fourth Progress Report on the implementation of the MPG recommendations on Promoting Choice in the UK Audit Market.

While the report generally deals with progress on a number of FRC’s key strategic initiatives, there is a very interesting analysis on the concentration of the auditing market in the UK which is dominated by the Big Four firms, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers....