This study is a historical critical analysis of the role of the transnational professional services firms known as the Big Four in the development of the accounting profession in China. China emerged in the early 1980s after decades of seclusion and began an economic transformation that would...

This volume provides a history of the domination of the Big Four in the Chinese accounting industry, explaining why China was unable to keep the market for its own accounting firms. The book details how easy access to U.S. capital markets led to major accounting scandals, and a clash between...

Chinese companies have accessed the public capital markets of the US and Canada more frequently in recent years. This paper provides for the first time empirical evidence documenting the characteristics of private securities class action lawsuits (filed in the US and Canada) against Chinese...