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KPMG Is the Cockroach of the Big 4

Posted on December 13, 2019June 30, 2024 by Jason Bramwell
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“KPMG is obviously such a vast business that it could probably survive nuclear war.”

— Daniel Sutherland, a partner at the U.K. business law firm Fox Williams, when asked if a large decline in profits and recent layoffs at KPMG U.K. will eventually lead to an existential crisis.

Posted in KPMG, Quote of the DayTagged cockroach, KPMG UK, nuclear war, Survival

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