Trainee accountants fresh from university do the vast majority of audit work, counting things and ticking boxes without having to think much.
Deloitte, however, is one of the Big Four firms that audit the vast majority of major companies in the United States.
Now, hopes for salvaging the election have come down to the audit, a vast operation supervised by professional election observers spread out across several warehouses in Kabul.
At the same time, we need to establish a regulatory body, possibly appointed by the S.E.C., to oversee the accounting profession, particularly the big five national accounting firms that audit the vast majority of publicly owned companies.
In an interview, Macey said that losing one of just five firms that audit the vast majority of large public companies is a serious loss for the society, as well as for Andersen's employees (many of whom landed with the remaining Big Four anyhow).
Despite the real possibility of Dodd-Frank being "revamped" under the Trump administration, these efforts are paying off: According to the Enough Project, "More than 70% of the world's smelters for the four minerals have now passed conflict-free audits," a vast improvement since 2010.
The vast majority of IRS audits involve the big agency telling you what they want to see, and you handing it over.
Mr. Fucilli, 43, become the man in charge of audits for the vast ledgers of the transit agency.
Its auditor, PwC, is high up the premier league of global financial-services firms auditing and advising vast tranches of the UK's private and public sectors, and its employees are regularly seconded to the offices of Ed Balls and Chuka Umunna.
