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Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (/ d ə ˈ l ɔɪ t ˈ t uː ʃ t oʊ ˈ m ɑː t s uː / də-LOYT TOOSH toh-MAHT-soo), commonly referred to as Deloitte, is a multinational professional services network based in London, England.
None of the "firms" within the Big Four is actually a single firm; rather, they are professional services networks.Each is a network of firms, owned and managed independently, which have entered into agreements with the other member firms in the network to share a common name, brand, intellectual property, and quality standards.
While the term "white-shoe" historically applied only to those law firms populated by WASPs, usage of the term has since been expanded to other top-rated prestigious firms. Many of these firms were founded as a direct result of the exclusionary tendencies of the original white-shoe firms, which provided limited opportunities for Jewish and ...
Kenneth Merchant holds the Deloitte and Touche LLP Chair of Accountancy at the Leventhal School of Accounting, part of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He is the former dean of the Leventhal School.
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Sir George Alexander Touche, 1st Baronet (/ ˈ t uː ʃ /; born Touch; [1] 24 May 1861 – 7 July 1935) was a British accountant and politician. He founded one of the firms which amalgamated to create Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu .
Ultramares Corporation v. Touche, 174 N.E. 441 (1932) is a US tort law case regarding negligent misstatement, decided by Cardozo, C.J. It contained the now famous line on "floodgates" that the law should not admit "to a liability in an indeterminate amount for an indeterminate time to an indeterminate class."