Clik here to view.
Featured Job: Manager/Director, Operations Risk
Job Code: 34684 Country: United States State: North Carolina (NC) City: Charlotte Address: Job Category: Financial Services Post Date: 03/07/2013 URL:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Eight Questions to Ask about Your Client Account Planning Process
By Andrew Sobel, Big4 Guest Blogger Does your organization have a client account planning process? If so, let me ask you some questions about it: How effective is it at helping you...
View ArticleFeatured Job: Assurance Manager
Job Code: 31556BR-0 Country: United States State: – City: Salt Lake City Address: Job Category: Financial Services Post Date: 02/27/2013 URL:...
View ArticleMore Men Are Taking over at Home
Many family roles are evolving due to current changes in the economy. In the home, more men are taking over with childcare, housework and other household duties that were once the responsibilities of...
View ArticleBig Opportunity for Consultants that Understand Manufacturing Metrics
Alan Radding, Big4.com Guest Blogger (A book is the best way to build a consulting practice: ask about ghostwriting your book) A software vendor’s typical go-to-market strategy is to deploy its direct...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Deloitte: Social Value Act should drive better business impact
By Rob Starr, Content Manager, Big4.com Deloitte report The Social Value Act should drive change in local communities by encouraging business to more closely consider the social impact of their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Deloitte: TMT India Predictions 2013
By Rob Starr, Content Manager, Big4.com Deloitte Survey Voice and data tariffs will need to be rationalised in 2013 to sustain the telecom industry, according to Deloitte Technology, Media...
View ArticleClik here to view.
PwC: Comments on shale gas measures in budget
By Rob Starr, Content Manager, Big4.com PwC commentary The Government announced new measures to support shale gas exploration and Alan McCrae, head of UK energy tax,PwC commented saying that they are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Featured Job: Manager, Federal Tax
Job Code: 35334 Country: United States State: Louisiana (LA) City: Shreveport Address: Post Date: 03/24/2013 URL:...
View ArticleCareer Transformation and Evolution
By Randy Samsel This past Friday I attended the Akron CPE day at the University of Akron. Thanks to KPMG and Smuckers Corporation for sponsoring. The first session was a discussion of accounting and...
View ArticleGuard Your Culture to Retain Talent
By Randy Samsel This past Friday I attended the Akron CPE day at the University of Akron. Thanks to KPMG and Smuckers Corporation for sponsoring. The first session was a discussion of accounting and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Featured Job: Sr. Associate Process Assurance
Job Code: 30012BR-0 Country: United States State: – City: Dallas Address: Job Category: Financial Services Post Date: 04/01/2013 URL:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Deloitte: Global consumer products industry shows signs of health
By Rob Starr, Content Manager, Big4.com According to the sixth annual 2013 Global Powers of Consumer Products report issued by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, the world’s 250 largest consumer...
View ArticleWhat does it take to be a Great Consultant? Can you add to our Top 10 list?
St. Charles consultant Gabrielle Wallace identifies 10 attributes of a Great Consultant and challenges Big4 Bloggers to add to the list (and to explain why they think their suggested attributes are so...
View ArticleClik here to view.
PwC: Private equity backed companies are ready to grow
By Rob Starr, Content Manager, Big4.com PwC survey The findings of PwC’s recent survey of private equity backed companies indicates that the popular perception of private equity as an investor only...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Misconceptions about Using Questions in Sales
By Andrew Sobel, Big4 guest blogger Advice abounds on “asking good questions” during the sales process. I believe much of it is confusing or even misleading. My clients and readers have enjoyed Power...
View ArticleCOACHING: WHAT THEY DIDN’T TELL YOU
No matter how good you are at what you do, sometimes we can all use a little expert advice and guidance. Admit it – you might be smart, competent, and accomplished, but there are always people a few...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Good Board Culture Is Essential For Effective Governance
By Michael VanBruaene, Big4.com Guest Blogger For your Board to effectively govern it must be have a positive culture. And a productive Board culture will positively affect your organization’s culture...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Elevator Speech 2.0 = Elevator Dialogue
St. Charles consultant Ellen Johnson recommends that we evolve the concept of an Elevator Speech into an interactive Elevator Dialogue. Her thoughts first appeared in the online Free-Range Learning...
View ArticleSorting Out the Data Analytics IT Options
Alan Radding, Big4.com guest blogger (A book is the best way to build a consulting practice, ask me about ghostwriting your book.) An article from McKinsey & Company, a leading management...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How CEO’s Can Lead Their Organizations To Innovation
By Michael VanBruaene, Big4.com Guest Blogger As CEO your vigorous questioning and probing will substantially influence the extent and success of innovation in your organization. Continual questioning...
View ArticleTHE GOAL IS NOT WORK-LIFE BALANCE
If you are striving for work-life balance, you’re missing the point. The concept is based on a flawed assumption. The assumption is that work stinks. Only if work has a negative connotation can there...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Personal Issues & How They May Be Impacting Your Job Search
Hello Fellow/Fella Professionals! As a new contributor here, I would like to say “hi” and let you know I welcome your input/feedback. Speaking of which, feedback in terms of Beth Berk seeking a new...
View ArticleProfessional Service Providers Must Invest in Marketing
The post Professional Service Providers Must Invest in Marketing appeared first on Big4.com.
View ArticleSpecial Offer for Big4.com Subscribers: Transfer Pricing 2013 Conference |...
Big4.com is proud to offer a special deal on Insight Information’s Transfer Pricing 2013 Conference as a marketing partner. Don’t miss out on the latest transfer pricing updates and best practices in...
View ArticleSee your career as a ‘Tour of Duty’
The idea of ‘Tours of Duty’ was coined by Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn. It was published in his book The Start-Up of You (2012) and in an HBR article together with Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh...
View ArticleClik here to view.
IT Failures Seem To Be Everywhere: Is This Part of The New Normal?
When Kathleen Sebelius recently fell on the sword for the miserable rollout of the Affordable Healthcare Act’s website, the event sparked some other serious considerations about the way IT in general...
View ArticleTHE CAREER BUCKET LIST
It’s the most elementary form of goal setting, and yet so often neglected. Your career bucket list is your dream list of professional things experienced and milestones achieved. When you’re done, at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Big 4 Satire on Amazon!
Check out this Big 4 satire on Amazon (Kindle available, too). Click “look inside the book” for Big 4 plot set-up....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Making the Tough Information Technology Decision – 5 Key Criteria
By Timothy E. Reed, Big4.com Guest Blogger www.reeditc.com Making the Tough Information Technology Decision – 5 Key Criteria Making the best decision when faced with today’s diverse and rapidly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ReedITC’s Timothy Reed Fits The IT Puzzle Together For CEOs
By Rob Starr, Content Manager Big4.com Information Technology (IT) is changing the way business does business in such an accelerated way, not even the wisest among us can predict what kind of future...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Deloitte’s 2014 Global Powers of Retailing Report Shows Global Retail...
By Rob Starr, Big4.com Content Manager The new 2014 Global Powers of Retailing report from Deloitte shows that in spite of global economic uncertainty, 250 of the world’s largest retailers made US$4.3...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Internet of Things Presents Huge Opportunities to Savvy Consultants
Alan Radding, Big4.com guest blogger Your own book is the best way to build a practice; ask me about ghostwriting your book The Internet of Things (IoT) appears finally to be gaining real traction with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Materiality: What Is It Costing You?”
Beth Berk By Beth A. Berk, CPA, CGMA, Independent Recruiter For those of us who were trained while working for a public accounting firm (and for those still in public accounting), does the word...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MoneyTree report sees Q1 dollars in software companies reaching $4 billion...
By Rob Starr, Big4.com Content Manager Mark McCaffrey, global software leader and technology partner at PwC, walks us through the MoneyTree™ Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
EY reports strongest 1Q for aggregate deal value in 14 years at US$66.6b.
By Rob Starr, Big4.com, Content Manager EY’s Global technology M&A update: January– March 2014, highlights the sector’s still accelerating pace of change in which multiple big-ticket deals and one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What consultants fear most about getting healthy
If you are a career consultant with a large firm you know that work-life balance doesn’t really describe the situation. Your context is much more complex, it’s something I call work-work-life balance....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The fourth annual PwC State of Compliance 2014 Survey finds CCOs arranging a...
By Rob Starr, Content Manager, Big4.com As companies come to terms with the fact the post-Recession business landscape means firms are increasingly immersing themselves in the business of compliance,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Top 5 Lasting Career Benefits of Big 4 Experience
By Larry Boyer, Guest Blogger Larry Boyer unites data science and leadership development to help organizations and individuals be successful in an increasingly complex and volatile business climate....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Labor Day’s Relevance For Today’s Professionals – Leadership Development...
By Larry Boyer, Guest Blogger In today’s white collar world of professional services the struggle of the labor movement over a century ago may seem like a distant echo with little relevance to your...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Leadership Development Lessons Can We Learn From 9/11?
On the morning of 9/11/2001 leaders at all levels around the world needed to respond to a situation unlike any before On the morning of September 11, 2001 and the days that followed leaders at all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Technology is Everyone’s Business”– Career Management and Technology
Understanding a variety of technologies is critical for career development How many friends do you have? How often do you tweet? What apps do you use? These were some of the questions Artie Decker was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fair-Weather Friends?
By Andrew Sobel, Big4 Guest Blogger A few weeks ago I interviewed a major British industrialist about “building relationships from the client’s side of the desk.” He had been the CEO of a leading...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Your Most Powerful Differentiator –The Live Performance
By Andrew Sobel, Big4 Guest Blogger An extraordinary shift has occurred in the music business, and it holds an important lesson for us. Over the last decade, sales of recorded music have steadily...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Deloitte Consumer Spending Index works through October dip
By Rob Starr, Big4.com Content Manager After two months of consecutive increases, the Deloitte Consumer Spending Index dipped slightly in October. Daniel Bachman, Deloitte’s senior U.S. economist,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
If it’s Legal Is it Right? The Five Pillars of Integrity in Business
By Andrew Sobel, Big4 Guest Blogger Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it’s right. And conversely, some things that are right aren’t legal. Clearly, we don’t need a bookshelf full of legal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Capgemini Executive Talks About CDOs, ROIs and Big Data.
By Rob Starr, Big4.com Content Manager Big Data is one of those game changing juggernauts that demands the attention of all industry as it rolls across the business landscape transforming all the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Accenture launches seven advanced analytics applications for the financial...
By Rob Starr, Content Manager, Big4.com Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has come out with seven advanced analytics applications designed for the financial services industry. They include offerings for the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Latest Accenture Contract Marks Final Phase Of DEAMS Development
By Rob Starr, Big4.com Content Manager Todd Cameron Accenture Federal Services has secured a 30-month, $73 million contract to complete the Air Force’s financial management system. The Defense...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From paper notes to Ecommerce success: Two modern day Horatio Algers tell...
By Rob Starr Ecommerce was around for several years before finally sparking to life about a decade ago. Like the car a hundred years before it, and even the electric light bulb and moveable type before...
View Article
