Doubling up

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Ernst and Young L.L.P. Chairman Nick Land and Managing Partner Client Service Mike Cullen discuss the objectives of the firm. They explain the reasoning behind the sale of the management consultancy division, Cap Gemini, for 11.5 billion pounds sterling. The firm is now planning for the future and already offers two online services.

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Poynter to the future

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After building up its management consultancy, human resources, legal practice and tax business PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P. intends to hive off its management consultancy business so it can go into partnership with its audit clients and develop new areas of business such as beTRUSTed, an e-commerce security integrator.

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A fight for survival

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There are fears if the US Securities and Exchange Commission goes ahead with their plans to make auditors independent practitioners the very important non-auditing skills would be lost. Most of the major accountancy firms also offer consultancy work to non-audit customers.

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