big four

基本解釋

China Telecom is the only big-four telecoms operator on the mainland that has not teamed up with a foreign company.
中國電信是中國四大電信運(yùn)營商中惟一一家尚未與外資公司結(jié)盟的公司。
“Companies and their auditors have got to get used to the idea that nothing is as it used to be, ” comments Will Rainey, a partner at Ernst &Young, one of the big-four accounting firms.
“公司和其審計(jì)師必須習(xí)慣于和以往完全不同的概念與方法?！?四大會計(jì)師事務(wù)所之一安永的一位合伙人Will Rainey如是評論。
In the case that a company has a positive earnings management behavior, after conducting audits, the"big-four"show a higher auditing quality, compared to the"non-big-four";
③在對有著正向盈余管理傾向的公司進(jìn)行審計(jì)時(shí)，國際四大會計(jì)師事務(wù)所比國內(nèi)非四大所的審計(jì)表現(xiàn)出更高的審計(jì)質(zhì)量；

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However,the important decisions were made by the so-called "Big Four": Prime Minister David Lloyd-George of Britain, Premier Georges Clemenceau of France, Premier Vittorio Orlando of Italy, and President Woodrow Wilson of the United States.

Even if the remaining global economies could somehow escape being affected by the problems of the big-four, it would not make much difference.
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Companies in the volatile construction business and those on the leading edge of technology might also face higher audit fees or no audits at all, says another big-four partner.
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