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What Arthur Andersen's Training Model Can Teach the Big Four About AI
As AI takes over more routine audit work, William Englehaupt argues that firms must rethink not only how auditors are trained, but their entire staffing…
 • William Englehaupt
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.
 • Claudine Cassar
EY is spending $100 million to reward the ‘human’ skills AI lacks
EY US is putting $100 million behind a new employee rewards programme that pays for judgement, adaptability and innovation — as the Big Four rethink…
 • Claudine Cassar
EY Ghana fined GH¢360,000 over unlicensed cybersecurity work before regulator says issues resolved
Ghana’s cyber regulator said EY had continued providing regulated services despite repeated directives, before the two sides announced hours later that…
 • Claudine Cassar
EY US to keep assurance interns for up to a year as AI reshapes entry-level audit
New Career Residency will let selected interns work part-time while completing college — with successful participants potentially joining EY in an…
 • Claudine Cassar
EY emerges as likely Anthropic auditor as rival Big Four firms deepen AI ties
The Financial Times says the evidence points towards EY as Anthropic’s auditor, as commercial relationships between the AI company and Deloitte, PwC and…
 • Claudine Cassar
PwC tells PCAOB to make AI in audit its “foremost priority”
The firm is urging the US audit regulator to issue guidance on AI, identifying risks ranging from automation bias and unreliable audit evidence to the…
 • 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
EY, Musaddiq Rehman and the price of saying the quiet part out loud
An intellectual-property dispute points to something deeper: the breakdown of an unwritten partnership understanding, and what can happen when tacit…
 • Claudine Cassar
ShinyHunters Claims Responsibility for EY Data Breach
The extortion group has threatened to publish allegedly stolen information by 31 July, while its claims of access to EY’s Jira, GitHub and Azure…
 • Claudine Cassar
KPMG US redesigns audit training as AI takes over routine testing
KPMG is redesigning audit training as AI removes much of the routine work once used to develop junior staff
 • Claudine Cassar
AI governance in audit: Wayne Banks on what firms must do to protect trust
Chartered accountant and former global CFO Wayne Banks talks to Claudine Cassar about Big Four AI adoption, board accountability, client data and the…
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