[tialaramex]

Yes, there were more of these goal audit firms (for legal reasons they are organised as groups of companies not a single large corporation named say KPMG), at first they merged and then a few of them did scandalous things (but they're run by rich old white men so they can't go to jail, the firm going bankrupt is the closest you get, everybody responsible retired wealthy and has no regrets) we're at the point where there are three left, they can count on no real consequences no matter what they do because fewer is just worse and nobody wants to admit that zero might be the correct number.

[tialaramex]

Wow. I made several fairly important errors here: 1. I wrote "goal" when I clearly should have written "global" - that's a typo but it's a pretty serious once.

2. There are currently four of these global firms not three.

3. I also omitted to even mention that of these four, three have their headquarters in London, England. This is clearly not a good idea, as a British person I'd like to think we could have one of the world's significant auditors based here, but it's obvious things aren't working properly when almost all of them are.