Financial Accounting
September 8, 2012
In the world of accounting four global firms take the gold. Those are considered “The Big Four”. Over the past twenty years many financial organizations have been established, but only the best have survived long enough to be well known across the world. Those four corporations are Deloitte & Touche, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG.
The biggest name in the industry however, is Deloitte & Touche. The company is the biggest accounting firm in the world; with revenue that exceeds 26 billion dollars it has the largest amount of employees worldwide (Big 4 web). Its headquarters are located in non other than the great New York City. Where else would such a magnificent firm be located? Obtaining a job at Deloitte is not an easy process, candidates work hard in this competitive environment and they will rarely consider you without a masters degree. The company has operations in more than 150 countries across the world. In their many locations Deloitte offers a wide variety of services to its clients such as: audit, tax, consulting and risk management (Entrepreneur web). As far as career opportunities that Deloitte offers, on their web site you can obtain information just by entering a city and state like Nashville, TN job opportunities, it was amazing to see that over twenty showed up on the screen. The opportunities for a job as a student with no previous experience were audit, tax, and enterprise risk service. Deloitte also focuses a lot on giving back to the community, so the web page really stressed that an employee would have a career filled with joy from helping the community in numerous ways, this was very appealing. Deloitte is looking for individuals with an early experience path, vision, communication, and charisma.
In terms of volume of clientele, Pricewaterhouse Coopers formerly known as Price Waterhouse merged with Coopers & Lybrand in 1998; has