But our Board activities remain profitable he tells

In a context of falling of activity (read below), is the bronca market Council: "it denounces the bankers, at the time, they forget the Enron scandal and return on the sly on trades Council!", "they were vagrant our consultants for 40 higher wages!", "how damps their fixed charges otherwise dissipating their Council benefits", is still. "If I was a partner of the audit, I would deny that the profits of my activity subsidize loss-making Council benefits." In the dock: the international firms auditing and Council called "big four" (Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers) which compete more and more operational management consultants.

Jean-Luc Decornoy, President of the Executive Board of KPMG, speaks of false trial: "there is not"consulting"at KPMG. The only Council that it provides, it is exercised around the figure. Suite to a bond issue or a mission of accounting, but not for the establishment of information system or the development of its strategy to a client. "Instead of a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), who makes a specialty in"improvement of the Organization, processes and information systems"in addition to other expertise. "It is important to recall that we provide no benefits of Council for a client that it audits, said Frédéric mill, associate responsible to the Council at Deloitte.". A "big four" also specializes in management, "corporate finance" and the risk management Council. "It is an obsolete debate." Multidisciplinarity through separate customers channels is recognized, see report Darrois!, launches Jean-Pierre Letartre, Chairman of Ernst & Young in France, who has reconstructed a management consultancy activity. For memory, Ernst & Young (E & Y) had assigned his Council Branch to Capgemini in 2000.

Acceleration of the price war charges reaction fuse: "There are"pure players"firms renowned in operational as strategy lose their composure and significantly lower prices." But the "big four" eventually, they also say "commercial efforts. "The missions are more difficult to win," justifies a head of mission. "But our Board activities remain profitable," he tells.

Vigilance on costs

It remains that the announcement of a loss of 300 posts by cabinet E & Y ("Les Echos" of March 31) hit the spirits. However, Deloitte intends to pursue the hiring of beginners. "We anticipate no deletions of posts but we remain vigilant on costs," says Frédéric Moulin. "In the program: suppression of residential training which now lie in our premises and greater selectivity in the promotion of the staff, hiring expertise limited to the most needed and a high impact of the crisis on the remuneration of the partners."

KPMG, it is poised to recruit 600 graduates and 400 students. "50 of activity concerns the audit, 30 accounting, we still 20 of turnover to find a market that after a two digit growth slows but is not in a dramatic situation, be large companies or SMEs with which we work, said Jean-Luc Decornoy.". The greater concern, in my eyes, they are rather the difficulties of receipts. "With respect to E & Y, including the rate of rotation of staff rose from 20 to 10, it is working to facilitate the voluntary departure, articulated a range of measures of flexibility and table on the hiring of 400 beginners and 100 experienced profiles and the use of 400 students. Apart from a lapidary "are not dismissed not", 4 great, PwC is the only one to refuse any comment before... September.