Advisory services has been the fastest growing service line as the firms extend their services into risk management and business consulting.The Big Four firms cumulatively employ more than 600,000 professionals globally, with a total of 34,000 partners overseeing a steep pyramid of about 470,000 professionals.Despite the world’s worst financial crisis for over 70 years, the Big Four firms turned in quite a creditable performance, with revenues falling only by a small percentage in… [read post]