You’ll Just Have to Live with the Big 4 Whether You Like It or Not

• Saturday, June 5, 2010, 8:31
• Finance

Quote of the Day

Memo to the World: You’ll Just Have to Live with the Big 4 Whether You Like It or Not

“There are plenty of industries where there are four big players. The world just has to get on with it.”

~ John Griffiths Jones, chairman of KPMG in the UK and co-chairman in Europe on the concern that four accounting major accounting firms are not enough.

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4 Comments on “You’ll Just Have to Live with the Big 4 Whether You Like It or Not”

• D.R. SONI wrote on 5 June, 2010, 10:46

  Yes, I do agree with Mr. John G. Jones considering the lack of efforts put in by other large accounting firms of the world including Indian firms thereby becoming the monopoly of the Big 4.
• AB wrote on 5 June, 2010, 13:18

  Colonialism remains a part of world economic pattern, whether it is US- or China-dominated.
• Rachana Khandelwal wrote on 5 June, 2010, 23:40

  By saying this,aren’t we restricting the scope for growth of audit firms with big names.
• DD BANSAL wrote on 6 June, 2010, 14:07

  My personal opinion is that there is always scope for more. only others have to work harder.
  let’s hope, in post IFRS scenario, we will have at least top-10, instead of just big-4.

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