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Australia ramps up scrutiny of the Big Four after a string of scandals. Expect tougher audits, bigger compliance bills and higher deal risk — regulators are coming for PwC, KPMG, EY and Deloitte. #BigFour #Regulation #Australia
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🚨 Australia considers breaking up Big Four accounting firms and placing them under corporate regulator oversight after high-profile sector scandals. #BigFour #Australia
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#BigFour vs. #ICAI: When Reform Meets Regulatory Subotage
Prime Minister #Modi ji has consistently championed the creation of "Indian Big Four" firms to bolster our economy and ensure national self-reliance (Atmanirbhar Bharat). Yet, the professional services sector remains dominated by foreign-controlled audit networks that operate in a regulatory gray area so much so that even ministries and PSU corporations are allocating most of the work to #BIG4.
For nearly a year, ICAI worked on something genuinely consequential — the Global Networking Guidelines, 2025. They Gazetted it on 11 Feb 2026, effective 17 Feb 2026, they required Big Four Indian affiliates to finally do what they've avoided for three decades :
•Mandatory Registration: Bringing global networking arrangements out of the shadows.
•Commercial Transparency: Requiring disclosure of royalty, fee-sharing, and technology licensing agreements.
•Accountability: Mandating the appointment of a nodal compliance officer—a member personally responsible for adhering to Indian law.
•Arm’s-Length Integrity: Ensuring dealings between domestic affiliates and foreign parents are transparent and fair.
This wasn't punitive. It followed directly from the Hon Delhi HC's July 2024 order confirming ICAI's power to act on Big Four affiliates — and it was paired with real liberalisation: the 13th Edition Code of Ethics (approved Dec 2025, effective 1 April 2026) finally scrapped the 2008-era ban on CA firms advertising, letting them use LinkedIn, websites, and digital channels the way Big Four consulting arms always have.
Two reforms by ICAI. One direction: disclosure for the powerful, visibility for the rest.
Then, in July 2026, ICAI paused the Guidelines.
Here's the part that should trouble anyone tracking India's "Atmanirbhar" ambitions: it wasn't litigation or public pushback that stalled this. It was MCA — the very ministry that administers ICAI — relaying Big Four discomfort and asking ICAI to "address stakeholder concerns" before implementation.
PM is directing ICAI and his own ministry to build an "Indian Big Four," and is separately weighing curbs on Big Four auditing sensitive PIE sectors over data-security concerns.
You cannot want a domestic Big Four while your own ministry quietly protects the opacity that keeps the real Big Four's Indian arms beyond meaningful oversight.
It is a contradiction of the highest order: while the government pushes for global Indian champions, the very regulatory framework designed to support their growth has been stalled by intense lobbying from the existing foreign-controlled oligopoly.
If India is serious about building an indigenous professional services powerhouse, we cannot allow the spirit of the ICAI to be hollowed out by opaque "shadow" business models. Transparency isn't a barrier to business—it is the foundation of a fair one. Hope PMO reviews what has led MCA to allow these guidelines to be put on hold by #MCA.
#ICAI #Big4 #Audit #MCA
Nine News dropped this and fair dinkum we are in a mess.
$21B of your tax went to the Big 4 over 10 yrs.
To help write Aussie tax laws.
In 2015 PwC helped draft multinational tax law.
Then they leaked it so the big end of town could beat it.
And just now, KPMG's CEO has resigned + 30 witnesses need to head to Canberra.
For getting caught leaking confidential info to win work.
The blokes we pay to write the rules get paid by the giants to dodge them, which underpay by $3.7B a year.
And who does this mob in Canberra come after?
The 3.5M Young Aussie Families trying to get ahead.
They gutted your negative gearing, increased taxation on your super, and didn't do the original tax cuts like they said.
And they wonder why One Nation just hit 31%.
Australians aren’t stupid. They are however pissed off.
Aussies have given up on the mob that couldn't run a chook raffle.
We paid the grubs who armed the giants. Then they sent the battler the bill.
What do you think?
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗣𝗠𝗚 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲
I’ve put together a timeline presentation that walks through the key events — from the initial whistleblower allegations of confidential client information being misused, through the internal complaints, the handling of sensitive data (including the unattended laptop incident), the firm’s internal investigation, and the dramatic outcomes.
This includes:
1. Allegations involving misuse of board papers from long-time client Lendlease to help win audits at Westpac, Dexus, and others
2. Concerns around client data protection and audit bidding independence
3. The firm’s response to the whistleblower
4. The recent resignations of CEO Andrew Yates and National Audit & Assurance Managing Partner Julian McPherson
Click to view
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16/06/2010.
Nel Bemowo Airport di Varsavia, in occasione di una tappa del Sonisphere Festival, si assiste per la prima volta al "Big 4" del thrash metal:
si esibiscono infatti sullo stesso palco Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth e Anthrax.
#BigFour #ThrashMetal
The KPMG Australia scandal is more than a whistleblower controversy. Global Big Four audit model remains plagued by conflicts of interest, weak oversight and a culture of self-protection. ✍️P. Sesh Kumar
#KPMG #BigFour #Auditing #CorporateGovernance #Whistleblower 👇
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Get ready for the Big Four Final 🏈🏆
⚔️Semifinal vs Hurricanes
📆Dom. 31/05
🕛12:00
📍Campo de Santa Engracia (Zaragoza)
Never Say Die! 💀⚔️
#fefaspain #finalu17 #bigfour
Audit, Tax, or Advisory — most people pick the one they fell into, not the one that fits.
The service line shapes your toolkit and exit options for 3–5 years. Build your qualification around that choice.
#CareerDevelopment #BigFour
National Kataleyla Day (: #BigFour
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