{"id":1017347,"date":"2026-06-29T07:58:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017347"},"modified":"2026-06-29T08:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:35:53","slug":"big-four-rethink-partnership-as-ai-changes-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/29\/big-four-rethink-partnership-as-ai-changes-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Four rethink partnership as AI changes the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The latest round of partner promotions has pushed the Indian arms of three of the Big Four accounting firms past a symbolic milestone: Deloitte, PwC and EY each now has more than 1,000 partners, associate partners and executive directors. But the rapid expansion is also beginning to test the limits of a partnership model built around audit, deals and tax, as technology consulting becomes the industry&#8217;s biggest growth engine. <\/p>\n<p>PwC admitted 35 professionals to its equity partnership and promoted 66 to non-equity partner and executive director roles, taking its leadership strength to 1,001. Deloitte elevated 56 partners and 52 executive directors, lifting its tally to 1,076.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The latest round of partner promotions has pushed the Indian arms of three of the Big Four accounting firms past a symbolic milestone: Deloitte, PwC and EY each now has more than 1,000 partners, associate partners and executive directors. But the rapid expansion is also beginning to test the limits of a partnership model built around audit, deals and tax, as technology consulting becomes the industry&#8217;s biggest growth engine. PwC admitted 35 professionals to its equity partnership and promoted 66 to non-equity partner and executive director roles, taking its leadership strength to 1,001. Deloitte elevated 56 partners and 52 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017380,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017347\/revisions\/1017380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}