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The big four accounting firms struggle to shake their sexist pasts

  • Written by Ian Gow, Professor and Director of Melbourne Centre for Corporate Governance and Regulation, University of Melbourne
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In many ways, the big four accounting firms – Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) – have influenced how we work, how we manage, how we invest and how we are governed.

Apart from their staff, the brands themselves are the big firms’ most valuable assets. The value of those...