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KPMG Australia’s Ethics Paradox: Selling Integrity, Failing Its Own Whistleblower
KPMG sold ethics training and whistleblower protection services while independent reviews exposed serious failures in its own ethical culture and…
Nov 2
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Claudine Cassar
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EY UK Partner Profits Hit £870,000: Up 20% in Two Years, While Revenue Grew Just 4%
As EY’s UK partnership shrinks and consulting revenue falls for a third consecutive year, its latest results reveal how partner rewards can outpace…
Oct 27
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Claudine Cassar
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Can Britain cut its dependence on the Big Four?
A smaller consultancy bill would not, by itself, show that government has regained the knowledge, skills and freedom to manage its relationships with…
Oct 23
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Claudine Cassar
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PwC's $60bn Question: What's Holding Back Growth?
From the lasting impact of scandals in Asia-Pacific to weak Middle East revenues and record UK partner pay, PwC's 2026 results reveal a business moving…
Oct 21
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Claudine Cassar
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Did KPMG Australia Have Something to Prove in the Metrics Audit?
Amid its own scandal and the fallout from PwC's Evergrande audit, was KPMG under pressure to demonstrate professional scepticism?
Oct 16
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Claudine Cassar
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Inside EY's $57bn Year: AI Growth, Changing Workforce and the Economics of the Big Four
EY's 2026 results reveal diverging trends in revenue, employment and global delivery operations, as AI services sales rise 49%.
Oct 14
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Claudine Cassar
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Why professional scepticism breaks down: inside the structural pressures of audit
How familiarity, hierarchy, inherited assumptions and poor client preparation can erode challenge inside audit teams.
Oct 7
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When speaking up becomes the risk
What KPMG Australia reveals about institutional responses to whistleblowers—and why partnership structures can make those failures harder to correct.
Oct 2
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The warning before the claim: why Big Four captives need pre-incident signal
Why rising claim severity is putting Big Four captive insurers — and their early-warning systems — under pressure.
Sep 30
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Stephen Hourigan
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Why companies should publish the parenthood gap
Companies publish parental leave and flexible-working policies. Kimberley Rowley argues they should also disclose what happens to the careers of the…
Sep 23
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Resilient Mothers
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KPMG asked for the AI dividend. Now its clients want one too
KPMG cited AI efficiency to push for a cheaper audit. Its 14% fee cut is now a talking point for Big Four clients — and a pricing problem.
Sep 11
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Claudine Cassar
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ASIC forced Australia’s Big Four to hand over audit-misconduct complaints. There were 551.
ASIC told Parliament it had widened its work on the KPMG scandal — including an investigation into the firm’s transparency reporting and a review of…
Sep 7
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Claudine Cassar
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