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Auditors: market concentration and their role

Inquiry

Audit is dominated globally by the Big Four. The narrow field of choice raises concerns about competition and the quality of audited accounts, and about possible conflict of interest between audit and consulting arms. Questions have also arisen whether auditors could have mitigated the banking crisis of 2008 by alerting investors to the riskiness of the assets held by banks.

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