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Deloitte’s Mars FX audits face fresh scrutiny after court authorises subpoenas
Mars FX representatives can now seek Deloitte records in the Cayman Islands, while an investor challenges four years of clean audit opinions.
 • Claudine Cassar
The Big Four helped build the climate-reporting market. Can they independently audit it?
A 16-state challenge asks whether the Big Four can remain independent while supporting climate reporting — and selling services around it.
 • Claudine Cassar
The Structural Capture of Corporate Conscience
Risk expert Astrid Yee-Sobraques argues that challenge functions fail when revenue takes priority — and need real authority to constrain high-risk…
 • Astrid Yee-Sobraques
Deloitte secures more Air Force work as Pentagon draws boundaries around consultant cuts
The Pentagon is cutting consultant spending and pushing work in-house, while still awarding substantial Air Force contracts to Deloitte.
 • Claudine Cassar
Breaking up the Big Four is now on Australia’s reform agenda
The Australia Institute has backed structural separation of audit and non-audit businesses as Treasury considers 17 reform options that could reshape…
 • Claudine Cassar
Burnout, long hours and the Big Four people model
Former Deloitte Malta HR Manager Mikela Fenech Pace talks to Claudine Cassar about workplace culture, staff turnover, career progression & whether the…
 • Claudine Cassar
Why ethical failures keep happening — and how leaders can prevent them
Ethical failure is rarely caused by one bad decision. It emerges when pressure + incentives + ethical fading + weak challenge + inadequate…
 • Dr Peter Collins
Timeline: How the SEC and PCAOB are quietly redrawing US audit oversight
From repeated proposals to fold the PCAOB into the SEC to a new specialist enforcement unit, US audit oversight appears to be moving towards a different…
 • Claudine Cassar
PwC completes the Big Four set of AI hallucination failures
Every Big Four brand has now published reports containing fabricated or unsupported material, exposing a widening gap between the pressure to adopt AI…
 • Claudine Cassar
The whistleblower’s paradox: when professional services firms protect the wrong people
A guest essay by Josef Pilger, a former EY Global Pension and Retirement Leader with more than 30 years of international experience across governance…
ASIC warns 2,900 auditors of tougher enforcement after KPMG scandal
ASIC’s warning to individual auditors comes as Treasury revives a wider reform programme—first launched after the PwC tax-leaks scandal and accelerated…
 • Claudine Cassar
FRC warns Big Four over growing use of offshore audit teams
The UK regulator says overseas teams are increasingly performing work requiring professional judgement and will monitor the largest firms’ extended-team…
 • Claudine Cassar
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