The Big Four Files

The Big Four Files: Every Major Audit, Accounting & Ethics Scandal Since 1975

What happens when the world's most trusted financial statements can't be trusted?

For more than fifty years, corporate scandals have reshaped financial markets, destroyed global companies, erased billions in shareholder value, and transformed the accounting profession. From Enron and WorldCom to Wirecard, Evergrande, and the latest ethics investigations involving the Big Four accounting firms, these events have changed how businesses are audited, regulated, and governed.

The Big Four Files is the definitive chronological reference documenting the most significant audit, accounting, and ethics scandals from 1975 through 2025.

Unlike books that focus on a single company or offer opinion and analysis, this volume presents the historical record. Each case is organized in a consistent format, providing readers with the facts, timeline, accounting issues, auditors involved, regulatory actions, legal outcomes, and lasting impact on corporate governance and financial reporting.

Inside you'll find:

• 38 of the world's most significant audit, accounting, and ethics scandals

• A chronological timeline spanning five decades

• Cases involving Arthur Andersen, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC

• Corporate failures across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, and South America

• Detailed timelines, investigations, financial reporting issues, legal outcomes, and regulatory actions

• A fully referenced factual resource based on public records, court proceedings, regulatory findings, and company disclosures

Whether you're an accountant, auditor, investor, business student, corporate executive, attorney, regulator, journalist, or simply interested in the history of financial fraud, The Big Four Files offers an authoritative reference to the scandals that reshaped modern corporate accountability.

This is not a book of opinions.

It is a historical record.

A timeline of the cases.

The auditors.

The investigations.

And the events that changed the accounting profession forever.