Hi! Is Financial Advisory true consulting? (Looking at you Big 4 👀 4️⃣)

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What is “true consulting”

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What kind of financial advisory? That can mean a lot of things. And define "true consulting".

EY changed their “Advisory” practice name to “Consulting” but did not change anything that they offer.

What is "true" consulting?

From EY perspective, Advisory PI-Finance (now consulting something?) is nit transaction/DD financial. The projects I’ve seen them do are a lot of Oracle and SAP implementation to transform businesses finances

We do finance operations essentially. ERP implementation is just part of it.

Generally people mean management consulting when they say true consulting...the answer is no to that, but it is indeed consulting.

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