BIG FOUR
What is the primary brand color used in the PwC logo, alongside black?
What is orange?
Which of the Big 4 firms did Professor Prunty work at?
What is Ernst & Young?
When a company receives cash for a service, the journal entry involves a _____ to the cash account.
What is a debit?
Who did Taylor Swift recently get engaged to?
Who is Travis Kelce?
Which of the Big 4 firms has a training and development center in Texas?
What is Deloitte?
At the beginning of the week, what favorite hobby does Dr. Lyon love to share with her classes?
What is gardening?
What is the natural balance of a payable?
What is a credit balance?
This movie, starring Ben Affleck, tells the story of a mathematics savant who works as a forensic accountant for dangerous criminals.
What is The Accountant?
The collapse of Enron led to the demise of this Big Five accounting firm in 2002, reducing the top firms to the current Big Four.
What is Arthur Andersen?
What mode of transportation does Professor Jim Smith take to school?
What is his bike?
This principle of accounting requires that an expense be recognized in the same period as the revenue it helped generate.
What is the matching principle?
In Breaking Bad, Skyler White hides Walter's illegal drug earnings by purchasing and operating a car wash business, a practice known as this.
What is money laundering?
What does KPMG stand for?
What is Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler?
Who are the advisors of Accounting Society and Beta Alpha Psi?
Who are Taryn Smith, John Prunty, and Mark Judd?
This is the underlying principle that dictates every transaction must be recorded with equal debits and credits, a core requirement of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
What is the double-entry accounting system?
Who are the accountants in The Office?
Who are Angela, Oscar, and Kevin?
This is the correct order of the Big Four firms when ranked by their 2024 fiscal year global revenue, from largest to smallest.
What is Deloitte, PwC, EY, and KPMG?
What is Professor Judd’s (and Jim Smith's) biggest pet peeve during class time?
What is leaving to use the restroom?
This is the account that would be debited when a company buys back its own stock.
What is Treasury Stock?
What famous person that performs at EDC holds a CPA license and worked at EY?
Who is John Summit?