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  • The Big Four’s legal ventures should worry mid-tier law firms

    August 26, 2022

    THE BIG Four’s first forays into the legal sector in the 1990s ended in abject failure. Yet over the past decade, the world’s four biggest accounting firms have captured a significant share of the UK’s market for legal services, and have increasingly begun to compete with traditional firms. Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC have used [...]

  • Deloitte to hire 6,000 new UK staff over next five years

    August 22, 2022

    Deloitte today set out plans to hire more than 6,000 new UK employees over the next five years in a bid to boost the quality of its audit work. The plans will see the accounting firm recruit at least 1,200 audit and assurance professionals each year from 2022- 2027, including around 5,000 new auditors. The [...]

  • PwC scraps 2:1 entry requirement for graduates as City war for talent heats up

    August 15, 2022

    BIG four accountant PwC will start recruiting graduates who missed out on a 2:1 degree at university, the firm announced today, in a bid to “diversify” its intake amid an ongoing City talent war. Graduates who received a 2:2 – colloquially known as a “Desmond” in reference to the late South African priest Desmond Tutu [...]

  • Big Four accountancy firms capture larger share of UK legal market

    August 15, 2022

    Major corporations are snubbing traditional law firms in increasingly going to consultancies and accounting firms for legal advice, according to new research from Thomson Reuters. The Big Four accounting firms – PwC, KPMG, EY, and Deloitte – are driving growth in the alternative legal services provider (ASLP) sector, as UK corporates increasingly turn to them [...]

  • UK’s professional services sector weathers economic headwinds

    August 13, 2022

    The UK’s professional services sector has continued to grow its turnovers in the face of major economic headwinds, new UK government data shows. The accountancy sector’s turnovers increased 3.7 per cent, from £3.41bn in May to £3.54bn in June, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows. The country’s legal sector also saw its turnovers [...]

  • City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile?

    August 12, 2022

    City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every morning. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. Deloitte Deloitte has built out its financial advisory practice with a new London-based director. Stepping into the real estate team, ex-KPMG Tracey Hancock brings some experiences from across CBRE and JLL. Hancock, a chartered surveyor and registered [...]

  • Big Four switch: Alliance Pharma hires Deloitte as its new auditor after KPMG resigns

    August 8, 2022

    Alliance Pharma has appointed Big Four giant Deloitte as auditor after the pharmaceutical company’s go-to for six years KMPG resigned.  Deloitte will be the company’s auditor until the end of 2022 and will need to be approved by Alliance Pharma’s shareholders to be re-appointed for 2023. It was appointed following a tender process, which KPMG [...]

  • Big Four auditors up advisory fee incomes as challengers capture larger share of audit work

    August 5, 2022

    The UK’s challenger auditing firms are increasingly capturing a larger share of Britain’s audit market, as the Big Four increasingly generate their revenues through non audit work, new data from the UK’s accounting watchdog shows. The research shows smaller auditors upped their audit fee incomes at almost twice the rate of the Big Four, as [...]

  • High profile scandals saw UK’s audit watchdog hand out record £46.5m in fines last year

    July 28, 2022

    The UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) issued a record £46.5m in fines over the past year, after the audit watchdog handed out a series of huge fines to Britain’s top accounting firms in the wake of a series of high-profile accounting scandals.   The value of fines issued by the UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) [...]

  • Chief Financial Officers should step up and take a more active role in leading their businesses, new report says

    July 26, 2022

    Company Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) should take a more active role in guiding the businesses they run through times of uncertainty, according a new report Big Four accounting firm Deloitte and cloud computing company Anaplan. The report warns that CFOs perception of themselves and their own roles fails to match the perceptions of others, as [...]

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