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.