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Subject Expert
Pwc by far is the premiere FDD shop. Not saying that because I work there now….
But actually I do believe we have the smartest people and best reports. And best technology.
Also it doesn’t matter A&M’s quality if they can churn out a million reports to happy customers that keep coming back they’re obviously good enough. At the end of the day many deals are set in stone you just give the stamp
Mentor
massive firms just make it a useless exercise for sweeping statements: My large PwC office when I joined was really strong, when I left years later the replacement staff/managers overall were much more mixed bag. The worst report I ever read was a PwC sell-side while I was there, so bad the partner and director on the report got in trouble. lack of uniform review process there makes it inconsistent. My point: good and bad teams/reports everywhere
Mentor
A&M does fine work, if a little commoditized. My take is big4+A&M all have A teams, and they all have B teams.
I also thinks it’s laughable to say PwC has the best reports - the structure of having 4/5 different levels of exec summary / slightly more detailed exec summary / junior exec summary / actual content is repetitive and annoying to read.
As someone who is forced to write them. I agree.
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Can’t trust anyone from EY. They’re not ethical.
Coach
It’s your spelling and grammar that’s more insulting than your comments 😂
HL HC Team is extremely impressive
If we’re talking about worst reports from firms, I’ll say GT. Straight up looked like grabbed a schedule from management and just threw it in there without any formatting. Took me awhile to get under their analysis
Coach
I mean I’ve seen sell side reports from every firm you can think of and we are virtually never blown away by the quality. Some of the worst reports we have seen are big4 reports. Also, many of these firms are just former Big4 people at a new firm. They literally copy everything from Big4.
So idk if you’re trying to say your EY reports are worlds better? Here’s a hint. They’re probably not. KPMGs are probably not. PwCs are probably not. And so on.
Subject Expert
My honest opinion is EY & PwC. It’s not even close.
There is no spoon
Deloitte has entered the chat
Solidarity brother
BRB taking my firm’s FDD report quality to go pay the bills, build savings, and buy a sick whip. Beyond a certain threshold nobody cares about incremental quality and the double comp is more important. Beyond the caveat everyone I have met here is sharper/the brightest of their respective firms 🤷♂️
Subject Expert
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I'm on the tax side/salt. Not impressed by the pwc reports I've seen for tax. Generalizations, missed issues, issues deemed immaterial but when I quantified, we flagged as a multi 6 figure exposure.
Well this is sure rich, lol.
Deloitte just makes USI do everything lol
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Grant does the best reports.