important revenue metric for the big four accounting firms pricewaterhouse coopers ernst and young k p m g n deloitte and touche consulting revenues increased forty four percent since two thousand and twelve as only and only a poll only three percent for the auditing services that translate to more revenues based upon consulting than the traditional auditing services last year the big four made fifty six billion dollars from consulting and forty seven billion dollars from auditing. and there are more developments in the ongoing saga over the politics of privacy at facebook as mark zuckerberg prepares to testify to congress this week facebook says they have suspended the analytic spurn cube you for using a data gathering technique that is very similar to that of cambridge analytic cube you is accused of deploying personality quizzes on the social media site that claim the data gathered will be used for nonprofit academic research when according to facebook it was actually used for marketing facebook took action after reporters at c.n.n. b.c. asked for a reaction to cube use use of tactics similar to c