Today
Panthera Finance administration prompted by founder stoush: PwC
The Brookfield-backed company collapsed into administration after the twin brothers who founded the debt collection business fell out with one another.
- Kylar Loussikian
This Month
Boutique firms prove attractive in big four exodus
Management consultant Sin Yin Long has joined Rennie Advisory, as boutique firms capitalise on instability at the large operators.
- Maxim Shanahan
PwC’s pay cuts cast grim shadow on secret Burrowes payment
Partners’ pay is a delicate topic at the consultancy right now.
- Myriam Robin
Scyne hires from public service, new KPMG role for former OECD exec
Public sector consulting firm Scyne has appointed its first new managing director, while KPMG has brought on former Labor minister David Bradbury as a partner.
- Edmund Tadros and Tom McIlroy
Alvarez & Marsal poaches PwC, EY partners
Transaction services is the highest-demand business unit for Alvarez & Marsal locally, ahead of management consulting and tax advisory.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Exclusive
- PwC tax scandal
Sold for $1, Scyne claws back a third of PwC’s revenue
Scyne, spun out of PwC a year ago, is heading towards $200 million in revenue, rebuilding a third of the roughly $600 million earned by its predecessor firm.
- Edmund Tadros
How PwC conjured a FIRB crackdown
PwC continues to answer the bare minimum, opening doors to meaning and revelation.
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
Consultants face decade-low growth slump
Annual growth in the sector is forecast to fall to its lowest level – apart from the short-lived pandemic slump – since 2015.
- Edmund Tadros
Path to Cats presidency goes through Boston Consulting Group
Critics have labelled Geelong a “boys’ club”. But the board of the Geelong Football Club has tended to draw from an even narrower pool.
- Myriam Robin
PwC makes first partner promotions since tax leaks scandal
The smaller-than-usual partner intake is the first since January 2023, and includes those whose promotion was deferred by the tax leaks scandal.
- Maxim Shanahan
PwC still paying for bungled tax leaks response
PwC is now paying the price for forcibly ushering several partners out the door.
- Max Mason
June
PwC’s agent Kevin Burrowes revealed as a $4m man
The revelation PwC Australia’s CEO is also paid by PwC International adds further texture to the firm’s intransigence with the Senate.
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
Why Cynthia’s uni trip to Silicon Valley was life-changing
Study-abroad programs have become something of a rite of passage for Australian university students, and it can be a life-changing experience.
- Julie Hare
PwC appointed VA at parent company of Brookfield-backed Panthera
Panthera’s parent entity’s shares are controlled by the administrator, who may be seeking a buyer.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Global tax war fears as landmark deal set to fail
Champions of digital taxes have started taking unilateral steps after losing faith in the OECD-backed treaty to overhaul taxation of multinationals.
- Emma Agyemang, Paola Tamma and Claire Jones
Mining’s push for gender diversity threatened by ‘Andrew Tate’ effect
A belief that women are being promoted based on gender, not ability, has permeated to middle management and board level, according to some female leaders.
- Harry Dempsey
Economist Jeremy Thorpe goes boutique after PwC Australia
The long-time PwC partner said there had been a clear shift in client demand “away from the big four consulting firms”.
- Edmund Tadros
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Consulting pile-on wound back
The argument for a more company-like corporate form and regulation of professional services partnerships raises two questions that will need thinking through.
- The AFR View
Jobless rate falls to 4pc | Chemist Warehouse deal lessons competition | Wall St guru fears ‘unstable’ backdrop
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Exclusive
- PwC tax scandal
Former PwC Australia partner flags legal action against firm
A former senior partner, Wayne Plummer, has indicated he will sue the firm after being publicly linked to its tax leaks scandal.
- Edmund Tadros and Maxim Shanahan
