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The Push For Independence: A Closer Look At The United States And United Kingdom Regulatory Environments, Nicholas Hardner
The Push For Independence: A Closer Look At The United States And United Kingdom Regulatory Environments, Nicholas Hardner
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The purpose of this research project is to examine the regulatory environments of both the United States (U.S.) and United Kingdom (U.K.) and to further compare and contrast the two. This comes in recent light of the prominent topic of the Big Four public accounting firms (i.e., Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers) being called to separate their audit practices from their other lines of service over independence concerns within the U.K. At the time of the creation of this project’s focus, there had been public outcry for this action to take form after numerous audit failures, which came …