Big Four

Business weekly release "Capital"
#34 (319), Thursday, 29 of September, 2011, page A11
Igor Kindop

Yerzhan Dosymbekov and Erzhanov Mukhtar argue about the market of audit services and Grant Thornton strategy in Kazakhstan.

In it to be said that very few people don't know, about "Big Four" of audit companies. Deloitte, Ernst&Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers – four international auditor firms which have almost seized the market of audit around the world. Secret of their success, probably, not only that their audit is more high-quality and independent but because of "Big Four" location is everywhere, and they are very famous.

As though difficult was to fight against this oligopoly, but the company has less, too the international auditor firms, do it. Quite recently in Kazakhstan was opened a new audit company – Grant Thornton. The company declares that in the global market takes 5-6 places in the developed countries and intends to compete with "Big Four" in Kazakhstan. "Капитал.kz" it was succeeded to talk to the General Director of Grant Thornton in Kazakhstan Mukhtar Erzhanov and one of Partners of the company Yerzhan Dossymbekov about prospects of business, the competition in the market and how to begin audit business in a saturated market.

You can read the full version of article here on page A11 (in Russian)