{"id":9372,"date":"2025-09-10T16:50:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/nem-sempre-o-parecer-das-big-five-sobre-contas-e-real-alerta-consultor\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:54:05","slug":"not-always-the-big-five-audit-opinions-reflect-reality-consultant-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/not-always-the-big-five-audit-opinions-reflect-reality-consultant-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Always the \u2018Big Five\u2019 Audit Opinions Reflect Reality, Consultant Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"140\" data-end=\"650\">Consultant and accountant Ant\u00f3nio Paulo warns that the audit opinions issued by the so-called <em data-start=\"234\" data-end=\"244\">Big Five<\/em> \u2014 the world\u2019s largest international auditing firms \u2014 \u201cdo not always reflect the reality of companies\u2019 accounts.\u201d In an interview with Valor Econ\u00f3mico, the specialist criticized the excessive reliance of multinational companies on external audits carried out by these foreign consultancies, to the detriment of Angolan professionals who are equally certified by the national Accountants\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"652\" data-end=\"1136\">According to Ant\u00f3nio Paulo, there have been cases of companies audited by the <em data-start=\"730\" data-end=\"740\">Big Five<\/em> which, despite the reports issued, presented serious tax and accounting problems. \u201cLarge companies require audits by the <em data-start=\"862\" data-end=\"872\">Big Five<\/em> as part of group procedures, but this does not mean that the opinions correspond to reality,\u201d he said. For the consultant, this practice contributes to the devaluation of Angolan professionals, who hold the same legal and technical competence to perform audits.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1138\" data-end=\"1501\">The accountant also noted that multinationals use the reputation of international firms to legitimize reports and opinions, which ultimately results in capital being transferred abroad without benefiting the local economy. \u201cIf these amounts were paid to Angolan firms, they would serve to increase investment and generate more jobs in the country,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1503\" data-end=\"1780\">The full interview, published by Valor Econ\u00f3mico, also touches on weaknesses in the training of accounting technicians, shortcomings in university education, the persistence of informality in the economy, and the challenges of applying international accounting standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consultant and accountant Ant\u00f3nio Paulo warns that the audit opinions issued by the so-called Big Five \u2014 the world\u2019s largest international auditing firms \u2014 \u201cdo not always reflect the reality of companies\u2019 accounts.\u201d In an interview with Valor Econ\u00f3mico, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,78,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-others"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9373,"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9372\/revisions\/9373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}