KPMG

KPMG the 3rd largest Accounting & Finance firm in the UK classify leadership skills as one of their attributes that they are looking for in graduate employees. “If you want to be great leader you’ve got to surround yourself with great people” (KPMG). Leadership is a skill that involves you being able to lead a team to success, by bringing out the best in their ability. During…

According to AU-C 200 & AU-C230, GASS requires that the auditor should obtain a reasonable assurance “Not absolute assurance” about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement. To reach that the auditor needs to collect evidences that have reasonable quantity and quality “sufficient appropriate audit evidence”. In AU-C 230, the objective of the auditor is to plan and perform the audit work in order to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence to reduce the audit risk.…

To be able to work and live in another country involves having an array of traits in order to succeed and thrive. Some required traits to work overseas include curiosity and a desire for challenge. Life is all about taking on challenges whether it involves risk, failure, or success. Throughout my college career, I was always curious about fraternities, clubs, and getting the best experience. As a result, I challenged myself to be outgoing and involved in any setting. As my senior year ends, I am…

During this professional development class, I have a comprehensive and distinct awareness of my strengths, interests and weakness in the occupational field. In this report, I will firstly focus on my existing knowledge and skills through coursework and related experience. Then my research of career and organization and informational interview help me figure out the employers’ expected qualities of my desired career. Lastly, from consisting information, I come to know some areas to develop and…

reporting CSR is beneficial, the competition between companies is also manifested in the field of establishing good business practices, reporting CSR is increasingly more done worldwide (KPMG, 2011, p.17). Even more, companies are more and more reporting quantitative and qualitative data on their positive performances (KPMG Advisory, 2010, p.3) (Zbuchea,…

Introduction Cisco System, Inc. an American multinational, headquartered in San Jose, California, U.S.A was founded in the year 1984 by two Stanford computer scientists. The company’s product range involved networking components with routers being the primary product. Tremendous structural \and organizational changes took place in the company during 1988, John Morgridge was hired as the CEO and was responsible to develop a professional management team. Cisco went public in the year 1990, after…

During the recruitment period for Project Gamma, an affidavit was confirmed by all staff that no one has any confidential information obtained from Prince Jefri however, on the grounds of conflict of interest, Prince Jefri wanted KPMG to be disqualified from progressing with Project Gamma. Pumfrey J was ought to assess the reasonableness of the preventive resources and held that the Chinese Walls was an inefficient ethical barrier in preventing accidental disclosure or potentially…

I personally wasn’t keen on KPMG but the majority of the group were. So, rather than complaining, I came to our following meeting with a new suggestion, which we ultimately went ahead with. That outcome made me realise that just because I was in the minority, I could still find a…

Ironically, the influence France has on various African nations especially in terms of military has been deemed “Françafrique” but as of recent no major wars have occurred on Gabonese terrain but there is a significant military presence (The Economist). Independence was not achieved through warfare but instead by reevaluating France’s interest in Gabon and concluding previous colonial agreements. Overall the most notable war was the Battle of Gabon during World War II, which led Free French…

I would like to work at one of the “big four” financial firms i.e. “Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers,” specifically, Deloitte (Anonymous A, 2015, page 5). Deloitte is a large firm; it has over “220,000 professionals” working worldwide and in 2015, had “35.2 billion dollars” in revenue (“About Deloitte,” 2015). Deloitte and the other “big four” firms have offices around the world in more than “150 territories and countries (Deloitte),” including Montreal,…