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Found this newsletter today on the 'India' section of the Substack explore page. I'm glad somebody is taking a Levine-esque approach to BFSI in India. Excited to see where this goes!

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Thanks, Rahul. I discovered Tigerfeathers recently myself and I was surprised I didn't stumble upon your in-depth writing sooner!

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Glad to hear it - always happy to chat/swap notes on this stuff if you're ever game.

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Ironically, Deloitte and the likes mandate ethics training and papers every fucking third week, where as bulk of the auditing and accounting fuckups globally involve partners of these firms

Source: worked at a big 4 in non-audit division

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Agreed. They ask us employees to comply with every single fucking thing under the Sun. But partners get away with lots of bullshit. Especially the independence thing is absolutely stupid.

Source: work in Big 4 m&a advisory

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I don’t think Deloitte will have any problems, at most a slap on the wrist.

Haven’t we seen this many times before.

If I remember correctly around 2010-12 some big partner at PwC had blown a whistle on it, the SEC didn’t find a thing.

Many will remember EY and Wirecard, IL&FS / IFIN and Deloitte, PwC in Satyam Computers.

Let’s see

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SEBI really needs to investigate delloite. There's no way a competent auditor fucks up so much for eight years.

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Zomato just fired their old auditors and hired them as well.

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Of course gujarat

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