{"id":2913,"date":"2009-03-17t21:15:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-18t02:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/48e130086c.nxcli.net\/2009\/03\/17\/francine-mckenna-the-big-4-run-a-racket\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17t21:15:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18t02:15:35","slug":"francine-mckenna-the-big-4-run-a-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2009\/03\/17\/francine-mckenna-the-big-4-run-a-racket\/","title":{"rendered":"francine mckenna: the big 4 run a racket"},"content":{"rendered":"
francine mckenna has long been a must-read at re:theauditors<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n now she’s at the huffington post too, and a force to be reckoned with:<\/p>\n governments all over the world are protecting and shielding the public accounting firms from failure under any circumstances, even in the face of repeated failure on their part. the current business model for global public accounting firms no longer promotes the safeguarding of shareholder interests in the modern publicly traded multinational. shareholders, and other stakeholders, are being shafted. the firms and their partners may be corrupt. they are unequivocally self-interested.<\/em><\/p>\n when it comes to the big 4 public accounting firms, the official word is still, “too few to fail. too powerful to call to account.”<\/em><\/p>\n go to francine mckenna: the button-down mafia: how the public accounting firms run a racket on investors and thrive while their clients fail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" francine mckenna has long been a must-read at re:theauditors. now she’s at the huffington post too, and a force to be reckoned with: governments all over the world are protecting and shielding the public accounting firms from failure under any … continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outlook"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n