PricewaterhouseCoopers

article, “America's Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Replaced by Robots”, describes this problem. “This shift is predicted to continue. About 38 percent of U.S. jobs could be at high risk of automation by the early 2030s, according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,” write Del Giudice and Lu. America enjoys the lowest…

KPMG is one among the Big Four. The latter designates the four largest financial audit groups worldwide that are Deloitte, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG. In fact, the company's name stands for Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler which is a merger between two auditor companies Klynveld Main Goerdeler and Peat Marwick. Actually KPMG is operating in 152 countries. Each national firm is an independent entity that is part of the universal KPMG network and so member of the KPMG…

Expenditures in the United States on health care surpassed $2.3 trillion in 2008, more than three times the $714 billion spent in 1990, and over eight times the $253 billion spent in 1980. Stemming this growth has become a major policy priority, as the government, employers, and consumers increasingly struggle to keep up with health care cost. Hospital spending, the largest share of overall health care spending, is a major driver of increased costs The current national expenditure have tripled…

advantages by identifying opportunities and threats and realigning with the business processes. Porter's approach to industry analysis relates to the task environment of the external environmental scanning. Porter's model deals with the intensity of the competition within the industries, and the basic competitive forces determine the intensity of the competition. The model consists of primarily five forces: (1) threat of new entrants, (2) rivalry among existing firms, (3) threat of substitute…

Types of data breaches Safeguarding and securing information is an important aspect of business that allows for preventing and minimizing risks. With data breach or incidents in which information is compromised, both businesses and consumers are greatly impacted, due to adverse consequences that may follow. The globalization of today’s economy is dependent upon electronic access via the internet, email, and “other components of “cyberspace,” including the global consumer credit card payment…

Introduction - Historic Enron Financial Scandal The merger between Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth produced Enron in 1985 which started off slowly specializing in the natural gas and then grew to start increasing its product range. Kenneth Lay founded Enron and became Enron’s Chairman and CEO. However, Enron management aggressively decided the need to grow faster, increase investor’s confidence, attract more investments and increase their credit rating. In order to achieve their vision, the…

2006). Michael Gallagher, chairman of the Professional Practice Executive Committee of the Center for Audit Quality, which is affiliated with the AICPA, said that “he saw the positive impact of SOX every day in his job as a managing partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ audit quality functions”. Gallagher said “SOX has led to fewer financial restatements, improved disclosures, and earlier identification of fraud”. He said that “it serves capital markets and investors well” (Tysiac, 2012). A 2005…

The literature review presents a detailed assessment of the contributions of previous research in the investigation of the relationship between the variables of the study (organizational trust and psychological safety). The attribution theory (Martinko, 2002) is considered adequate in explaining and predicting the relationship between the variables. The attribution theory is concerned with the study of the process by which individuals draw up conclusions of causality in response to the outcomes…

Since its inception, the American film industry has reigned supreme in popularity throughout the world. Moviegoers and cinephiles alike have become enamored with the allure of ‘Hollywood’, known as the mecca of the entertainment industry. As one of the oldest film industries, the US has produced major films such as Star Wars (1977), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009). In addition, iconic American actors such as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe rose to worldwide stardom. Its popularity, through…

Have you ever been afraid of getting sick? The fear lies not so much in the illness so much as the cost of the treatment. As you may well be aware of, the healthcare system in the United States could use some reform. That is what many believe anyway. Those who do not get their healthcare via health plans through their work inevitably have to pay for health care through more standard means, myself included. The most relevant form of health care, and the focus of my paper, is The Affordable Care…