Previously, this office is known as Deloitte

Big Four (English: The Big Four) is a group of four professional services firm and the largest international accounting, which handles the majority of the audit work for a public company or a private company. Big Four firms are as follows, with the data last:
$ 26.6 billion
This group was known as the "Big Eight", and reduced to the "Big Five" through a series of mergers. do not call list Big Five became the Big Four after the collapse of Arthur Andersen in 2002, because of his involvement in the Enron scandal.
Most of the Big 8 is an alliance between firms from the British and US in the 19th century or early 20th century. Price Waterhouse is a UK firm which later opened a branch in the US in 1890 and then separate and independent. do not call list Firm Peat Marwick Mitchell is a combination of US and UK firms and use the same name in 1925. Other firms use different names for the domestic business (do not use a name shared / common names), among others do not call list Touche Ross in 1960, Arthur Young (at first Arthur Young, McLelland Moores) do not call list 1968, Coopers & Lybrand in 1973, Deloitte Haskins & Sells in 1978 and Ernst & Whinney in 1979.
Competition intensified among accounting firms and the Big 8 to the Big 6 in June 1989 when Ernst & Whinney merged with Arthur Young becoming Ernst & Young and Deloitte, Haskins & Sells merged with Touche Ross became Deloitte & Touche in August 1989.
2. Ernst & Young
The case of Enron's collapse has dragged Arthur Andersen, Enron's auditing the financial statements, into a series do not call list of investigations by the US stock exchange authorities. The investigation concluded Arthur Andersen was involved in the scandal. Accounting firm Arthur Andersen was charged against the law for destroying documents related to auditing Enron, and cover up the loss of millions of dollars. Results of the legal decision effectively causing global bankruptcy of business Arthur Andersen. Accounting firms throughout the world under the banner of Arthur Andersen completely sold and mostly becoming a member of international accounting firms. In the UK, the local partner of Arthur Andersen mostly joined do not call list Ernst & Young and Deloitte. In Indonesia, the partner do not call list of Arthur Andersen finally joined Ernst & Young.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is the largest professional do not call list services office in the world today. This office was formed in 1998 from the merger between Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand. PwC is the largest among the Big Four auditors, the other is Deloitte, Ernst & Young and KPMG.
The legal form an alliance is very different from a true global company and this office is a combination of offices of members who have their own autonomy in the respective jurisdictions of each country. Senior fellow of offices members sitting in a board of directors which is an umbrella organization called PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, a company in the United Kingdom to coordinate. Today, globally, led by Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr., (52 years), a fellow ex-Coopers & Lybrand.
Consultancy, including stabilization of performance, transaction and merger and acquisitions, and crisis management in various areas of specialization such as accounting and actuarial consulting services.
Approximately 82% of PwC's annual income contributed by Europe and North America, Europe do not call list itself noted by 45%. Services is the most dominant of the Audit and Attestation, which accounts for more than 50% revenue PwC.
In March 2005, PricewaterhouseCoopers audit clients, including four of the ten largest public companies in the United States (ExxonMobil, Ford Motor Company, ChevronTexaco and IBM). PwC also audited four of the ten largest companies in the United Kingdom (GlaxoSmithKline, Royal Dutch Shell, Barclays and Lloyds TSB). PwC other major clients among American International do not call list Group, Freddie Mac, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Tesco, Unilever, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which lists the voting for the Academy Awards.
A group of international accounting firms in the world. In 2004, with 16.4 billion US dollars, they are the largest among the Big Four auditors in terms of income. In addition to accounting services, Deloitte is one of the largest business advisory offices in the world that offers strategic and operational management services to companies in the Fortune 500.
Previously, this office is known as Deloitte & Touche formed by the merger of Touche Ross and