A fascinating and authoritative portrait of the `Big 4' accounting firms, Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, KPMG. One million staff, operating in nearly every country Key agents of the China boom Implicated in the 2008 Financial Crisis and other calamities On the front line of international changes in work, society and commerce Stuck with a professional services model that is fundamentally broken Includes an index. Ian D. Gow is currently at Harvard Business School. Before Harvard, he held positions at Morgan Stanley, General Motors, Stern Stewart & Co. and Andersen Consulting. Stuart Kells' book Penguin and the Lane Brothers won the 2015 Ashurst Australian Business Literature Prize. He was formerly Assistant Auditor-General of the state of Victoria, and a director at KPMG. Stuart Kells' The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders sold to Hayakawa in Japan, Counterpoint for US/Canada, and Mondadori in Italy.

Author Biography

Stuart Kells is a Melbourne-based author. His history of Penguin Books, Penguin and the Lane Brothers, won the Ashurst Australian Business Literature Prize. Ian D. Gow is currently at Harvard Business School and will soon take up a professorship at the University of Melbourne. Before Harvard, he held positions at Morgan Stanley, General Motors, Stern Stewart & Co. and Andersen Consulting. He received a Ph.D. in business from Stanford University; an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School; and degrees in commerce and law from UNSW.