Banning political donations or restructuring firms to reduce conflict of interest are not part of recommendations
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Big four firms should be banned from providing a client both audit and consultancy services at the same time, and have their number of partners slashed by up to 600, a parliamentary inquiry has recommended.
But it stopped short of calling for a ban on political donations or for the structural separation of consultancy firms to reduce conflicts of interest, as recommended by the former competition watchdog chair Allan Fels.
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