The Big Con:
How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies. Mazzucato, Mariana; Collington, Rose, eds. (2023).
https://marianamazzucato.com/books/the-big-con
#book #Mazzucato #big4 #ConsultingIndustry #State #capacity #tax #outsource #governance #accountability #PublicService #KnowHow #knowledge #dependency

Australia and the Big 4
How the big four accounting firms infiltrated governments, earning more than $10b over a decade while taxpayers are in the dark
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-17/pwc-ey-kpmg-deloitte-government-10-billion/102602370

Butler to the World:
How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals, Oliver Bullough. 2022
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250281920/butlertotheworld

https://www.codastory.com/newsletters/oligarchs/
Tracking how the super rich are changing the world for the rest of us, Oliver Bullough.
#Britain #crime #AntisocialBehaviour #Tycoons #TaxDodgers #Kleptocrats #Criminals

A decline in the big four's auditing quality stokes fears of an Enron-style corporate collapse

#Big4 #corruption

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-14/australia-big-four-audit-decline-quality-fear-corporate-collapse/102718744?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=abc_news_newsmail_am_sfmc&utm_term=&utm_id=2182832&sfmc_id=223395461

For the longest time the #Big4 have been touted as impeccable, incorruptible, unchallengeable and beyond reproach. We realised politicians, theologies, celebrities and sports stars can’t live by those criteria - why on earth did we think the epitome of mammon would be an exception?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-14/australia-big-four-audit-decline-quality-fear-corporate-collapse/102718744

The Big-4 threw the banks under a bus to protect themselves during the banking royal commission. The banking royal commission should have included them. #auspol #big4

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-14/australia-big-four-audit-decline-quality-fear-corporate-collapse/102718744

@HardBeingGreen Yes it will take a long time and those fees are lost. Best start is to bring expertise back in house and make PS a decent career choicecagain. I acknowledge the truth of Katy Gallagher explaining there is a need for specialist consultants on occasion. But, for example, dept I worked for, w enormous and vital system, once had large, first class #IT department who knew their system inside out. Their problem was not lack of knowledge, but that the system itself was old and had so much 'added on' it became unwieldy.
Instead of consulting staff on how to renew & update system, they called in one of #Big4 to consult and advise.
They were overbearing and condescending. Did not understand the law/ system intricacy that applied and ignored staff experience while costing a great deal.

#Reporting on each other...
#Big4 #auspol #TheShot

https://chaser.com.au/national/kpmg-way-worse-than-pwc-according-to-damning-report-by-pwc/

#Big4 #consultingfirms #ripoff $3.7Billion #defence #auspol

https://inqld.com.au/news/2023/08/08/scandalous-how-top-four-consulting-firms-pocketed-3-7-billion-from-armed-forces/

#Big4, Big conflict, Big interest #auspol #pwc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzak2nt55Gc

The numbers are staggering. In the past decade #Australia 's state and federal governments have forked out more than $10 billion on the big four accounting firms — money that could have paid for 200 schools, 10 or more prisons, four world-class hospitals or a third of the annual #Medicare bill. #pwc #consulting #auspol #privatisation #big4

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-17/pwc-ey-kpmg-deloitte-government-10-billion/102602370

Another Big 4 Australian Bank Blocks Payments to ‘High-Risk’ Crypto Exchanges - National Australia Bank (NAB) has joined other major lenders in the country in blo... - https://news.bitcoin.com/another-big-4-australian-bank-blocks-payments-to-high-risk-crypto-exchanges/ #nationalaustraliabank #cryptoexchanges #cryptoplatforms #cryptocurrency #restrictions #protections #australian #exchanges #australia #customers #scammers #binance #blocks #crypto #banks #scams #bank #big4 #nba

#RoyalCommission #big4 #corruption #auspol

https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2023/07/17/pwc-royal-commission/?utm_campaign=Morning%20News%20-%2020230718&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestra&lr_hash=

Mon 7/17 - Big4 AUS Scandal, Meta Fines in Norway, Dershowitz Fines Here, MS Reports Email Leaks from Government Agencies

We have #Big4 Australia scandal expanding, #Meta faces huge fines in #Norway, Dershowitz ordered to pay up in election fraud suits, and #Microsoft reports #China has stolen emails from government agencies.

#lawfedi @law

https://www.minimumcomp.com/p/mon-717-big4-aus-scandal-meta-fines

If the #Big4 accounting firms were willing to leak confidential information to clients & advise them to structure their arrangements to pre-emptively avoid tax, why would we think they'd stop there?

I don't have any faith in their willingness to provide advice that'd help build a better society. IMO the same culprits would only give advice that was profitable to them.

#Auspol #accounting

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-17/pwc-ey-kpmg-deloitte-government-10-billion/102602370

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66016270

#Big4 #infiltration #corruption

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-17/pwc-ey-kpmg-deloitte-government-10-billion/102602370

#big4 #auspol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-17/pwc-ey-kpmg-deloitte-government-10-billion/102602370

Let’s be honest neither major party, no matter how big the elephant in the room is, is going to do anything about the excessive funding of private schools over public. Like they weren’t going to take #robodebt seriously, #climatechange, #agedcare, #education, #childabusebychurch vs attacking indigenous communities, #big4 vs protecting Australia’s rights, #fossilfuelsubsidy, #taxtherich, #corporategreed creating #inflation. So many elephants and so many lined pockets. #auspol

Like #robodebt #agedcare #big4 everyone knows/knew what was/is going on stinks but oddly enough none of our federal ministers thought or think so.
#auspol #education
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/17/gonski-review-government-funding-private-public-schools?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@BasicallyBenGB
There is a misconception that athletically #WomensCricket is somewhat lower than a village club level.
At international level (at least for the #big4 ), that could not be further from the truth!

RT from Telegraph Business (@telebusiness)

It comes after EY scrapped its historic break-up plan, codenamed Project Everest, in April after months of internal disagreement and opposition from US bosses.

#EY #Big4
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/06/13/ey-global-chief-leaving-firm-failed-split/?utm_content=business&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1686671624

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/telebusiness/status/1668651962416463876

#Corrupt #Big4 #auspol

https://michaelwest.com.au/oligarchs-of-the-treasure-islands/