(Minneapolis) A new book by a local businessman can help them choose a professional you`ll love and win the job you want, John Reger reports (3:25).
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Big Four auditors
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The Big 4, sometimes written as the Big Four, are the four largest international accountancy and professional services firms, which handle the vast majority of audits for publicly traded companies as well as many private companies. The Big Four firms are shown below, with their latest publicly available data:
Firm
Revenues
People
Fiscal Year
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu [1]
$27.4bn
165,000
2008
PricewaterhouseCoopers [2]
$25.2bn
146,700
2007
Ernst & Young [3]
$21.1bn
130,000
2007
KPMG [4]
$19.8bn
123,000
2007
This group was once known as the "Big Eight" before a series of mergers and also included Arthur Andersen. Arthur Andersen was convicted of obstruction of justice in the wake of the 2001 Enron scandal, but the conviction was reversed by the United States Supreme Court in 2005.[1]
