Big 4, Big Myth is the second volume of The Pentology series and explores the many serious ethical taxation questions confronting the Big 4 accounting firms Ernst & Young (EY), Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) and KPMG in a fast changing world demanding transparency and much greater accountability.
The rise in power of the Big 4 accounting firms is unprecedented in commercial history but is this power exercised responsibility in the absence of any global regulators and in this sense who, if anybody, guards the guardians and are these accounting behemoths just getting too big for their domains and becoming quasi- commercial crime families? Tax frauds the size of major economies, the historical abuse of women’s rights, the role of whistleblowers, the fall of Prime Ministers, the tactics used to preserve the commercial myth of impregnability, the covert actions to eliminate threats to the firms and the emerging role of international journalists as quasi-regulators as the only organization effectively holding the Big 4 to account are some of the many issues explored in this first comprehensive and serious examination of the Big 4 accounting firms and their secretive activities.