{"id":37897,"date":"2026-03-24T16:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/37897\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:03:24","slug":"roche-restricts-consulting-work-with-big-four-firms-to-cut-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/37897\/","title":{"rendered":"Roche Restricts Consulting Work With Big Four Firms to Cut Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/ROG:SW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Roche Holding AG<\/a> is reining in spending with the Big Four accounting firms and will require any future consultancy work to be pre-approved by the Swiss drugmaker\u2019s chief financial officer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Roche\u2019s new policy applies to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/3240627Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Deloitte,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/10182Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">PwC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/5092Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">EY<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/4062709Z:LN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">KPMG LLP<\/a> with immediate effect, the company said in a statement in response to questions from Bloomberg. It\u2019s a fresh sign of how companies are cutting back on advisory fees due to cost pressures including the rise of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roche Holding AG is reining in spending with the Big Four accounting firms and will require any future&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[124],"tags":[22213,225,22211,2112,7437,3585,22212,10825,134,17,5074,4293],"class_list":["post-37897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-roche","tag-alan-hippe","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-boston-consulting-group-inc","tag-cancer","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-chief-financial-officer","tag-kpmg-llp","tag-policy","tag-roche","tag-switzerland","tag-thomas-schinecker","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116285001262486920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}