Talk:Grant Thornton International

5th Largest accountancy firm
Both BDO and Grant Thornton articles state they are the 5th largest accounting firm worldwide. Clearly there is something not quite right. Is there an up-to-date list from a reputable 3rd party to establish the correct position. If not then the claim on both sites should be removed.--GazMan7 (talk) 17:15, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

It largely depends on how you determine rankings - everyone knows the big 4.... but the gap between big 4 and the next firm is fairly vast. I believe BDO claims to be 5th largest based on the number of offices since it includes a number of boutique tax / consultancy firms in its network. Since each country has different rankings for public accounting firms, I would suggest that revenues should be used as a parameter to determine the rankings. DallasJockey

Based on Revenue,McGladrey is the fifth largest firm in the US — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.208.134.75 (talk) 18:27, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Illinois-based Corporations
Why does GTI have a template for "Illinois-based Corporations" when GTI is based in London? I'll remove this if agreement. Darkieboy236 (talk) 12:30, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Written like Advertisement?
The last sentence in the introduction (second paragraph) sounds like advertising to me - at least it does not comply with my sense of style for encyclopedic writing:

These firms help dynamic organisations unlock their potential for growth by providing meaningful, actionable advice through a broad range of services.

These are quite a few buzz words loved by marketing agencies. And they are not really falsificable or provable: dynamic, unlock their potential, meaningful and actionable advice... This could be the self-description of any consulting firm in the world.

My suggestion: remove the sentence or shorten it to something like "These firms help organisations by providing advice through a broad range of services." --Alpenfreund (talk) 16:39, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Pyramid-ponzi scheme.
The form that Grant Thornton accountants resolve bankruptcies is by and through also a pyramid-ponzi scheme, where the accountants attempt to resolve the bankruptcy by robbing the clients/victims even further, to pay of debt, including that debt owned to Grant thornton.

To accomplish this, they start charging the clients, account holders with unnecessary, unwanted, and/or none closed, none received services, including credit scamming and promoting legalities from a ' friendly ' / ' bribed ' local court to inhibit payouts to clients.

The stanford international bank fraud is one of those fraud cases where Thornton itself uses ponzi/pyramid schemes to pay off debt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.91.89.206 (talk) 18:14, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

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