Thursday, August 31, 2017

Airline flies to KPMG after qualified audit opinion

SAX has asked KPMG to help with its books as it disagrees with auditor-general Kimi Makwetu, who has given the airline a qualified audit opinion.
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Tier-II and Tier-III markets: Tech companies using local languages to capture growing demand

A report released by Google and KPMG estimated that 536 million Indian consumers are expected to use regional languages for online services by ...
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Administrators in at Oldham Evening Chronicle publisher

Hirst, Kidd and Rennie has entered administration, with Paul Flint and Jonathan Marston of KPMG appointed joint administrators. The weekday daily ...
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Dairy industry set for big price crash - KPMG

Dairy companies need to think of themselves as protein or nutrition companies, said KPMG global head of agribusiness Ian Proudfoot. He said there ...
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In Gee Chun leads in Portland; Brooke Henderson shot back

Henderson has four LPGA Tour victories, also winning the major KPMG Women's PGA last year and the Meijer LPGA Classic in June. Lexi Thompson ...
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First Direct repositions as it admits customer service is no longer a differentiator

Just last year, it was awarded the number one position in KPMG Nunwood's Customer Experience Excellence ranking, reclaiming a title it lost to Lush ...
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Businesses Hunt Down Enterprise Architects to Lay Out the Digital Journey

... are increasingly on the lookout for enterprise architects to help lay out their digital journey, according to the Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO survey 2017.
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Chun Takes Early Lead In Portland, Henderson and Jutanugarn Sit One-Back

Henderson last made a hole-in-one during Tournament competition at the 2016 KPMG Women's PGA Championship where she went on to win her ...
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Kylian Mbappé: PSG signs 'most promising player in the world'

PSG brought in an estimated $618 million in 2016/17 -- of which over $350m was from commercial sources -- according to KPMG's Football ...
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Orco Property Group : PR H1 2017 Financial Results

The Annual Meeting finally resolved to appoint KPMG Luxembourg as an auditor (réviseur d'entreprises agréé) of the Company until the annual ...
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UK gambling industry now takes £14bn a year from punters – report

... 106,678 UK jobs could be lost with thousands of the country's 8,788 bookmaking shops closing, found a study by KPMG, commissioned by the ABB.
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Northwestern accounting graduates record fifth best pass rate on 2016 CPA exam

Northwestern accounting graduates are working with Big Four companies such as Ernst and Young in Minneapolis and KPMG in Des Moines.
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Howes to head up KPMG Wealth

It will see him overseeing KPMG's firm-wide services in the wealth space including super, funds management, private equity and retirement products.
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KPMG Names New Wealth Head

Paul Howes, who was previously head of KPMG's superannuation practice, will now cover the whole range of asset management and investment ...
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KPMG names new head of wealth

Paul Howes, who previously headed up superannuation at KPMG, will now cover the full range of asset management and investment portfolio.
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Manitoba NDP accuses government of secrecy, demands release of health-care reports

Along with the wait time committee's report, the NDP are also calling on the government to release two reports prepared by KPMG — one looking at ...
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Oldham Evening Chronicle shuts after publisher enters administration

The Oldham Evening Chronicle was published by Hirst, Kidd and Rennie Ltd but administrators KPMG said the company was hit by the "changing ...
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Poll of EU workers points to potential skills crisis for West firms as thousands say they will leave UK

Worryingly, the survey also reveals that EU workers most likely to leave the country are what KPMG calls INDEYs – the independent, in-demand, ...
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Brian Kennedy's Latium Group buys Entu

The group's directors then appointed Paul Dumbell and Jonathan Marston of KPMG as administrators earlier on Thursday, 31 August. In addition, the ...
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Day of eGaming intel at KPMG IOM summit

Organisers of this year's KPMG Isle of Man eGaming Summit are reminding potential delegates to register by noon on Friday (1 Sep). The event at the ...
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OLDHAM EVENING CHRONICLE IN ADMINISTRATION

Paul Flint and Jonathan Maston of KPMG LLP were appointed joint administrators of Hirst, Kidd & Rennie Ltd, the company which produces the ...
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Oldham Evening Chronicle ceases publication - with 49 jobs lost

Paul Flint, partner at KPMG and joint administrator, said: “The company was faced with an increasing deficit in its defined benefits pension scheme in ...
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Oldham Evening Chronicle folds after 163 years as 'majority' of its 49 staff made redundant

In a statement today, financial services company KPMG said it had been appointed as the administrator for Chronicle publisher Hirst, Kidd and Rennie ...
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More than 40 jobs lost as regional daily ceases publication after 163 years

A regional daily newspaper has ceased production after 163 years with the majority of its 49 staff being made redundant. KPMG has announced two of ...
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Oldham Evening Chronicle publisher goes into administration

Paul Flint and Jonathan Marston of KPMG have been appointed as joint ... nature of the local media landscape,” said Paul Flint, partner at KPMG.
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KPMG lines up general contractor for $430M Lake Nona campus

DPR Construction Inc.'s signage has appeared on a vacant 55-acre site in Lake Nona slated… more. The new training campus may bring thousands ...
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Palaszczuk's public service proves a money-spinner

The Queensland government will pay professional services giant KPMG more than $165,000 to prove the state's ballooning bureaucracy and ...
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Lykke Partners with CryptoTax

Therefore, CryptoTax has a strategic alliance with KPMG – one of the Big Four accounting firms – to get access to their worldwide network of tax and ...
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GAIN Capital has to defend itself in lawsuit about alleged software over-deployment

TIBCO hired KPMG to conduct an on-site audit in August 2016. KPMG produced a final deployment report, based on its August 2016 audit, which ...
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Warning of 'hard' Brexit tax and skills losses

KPMG is also sounding warnings about the potential impact of a Brexit brain-drain, following an international survey of 2,000 EU citizens working in ...
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KPMG puts London headquarters up for sale

The firm appointed has Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) to find a buyer for 15 Canada Square in Canary Wharf. However, KPMG said it would continue to ...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Utilities at a crossroads as renewable energy fills the grid: KPMG

Leading consultancy KPMG is in a good spot to track how the energy incumbents are facing disruption from the clean energy revolution.
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Bloomberg Markets: Balance of Power 8/29/2017

Guests include: KPMG's John Gimigliano, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Matt Winkler, Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief Emeritus. (Source: ...
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Manitobans want to see report guiding province's health-care reforms: poll

Manitobans wants to the KPMG report, Michelle Gawronsky says, because they want to know what the plan is. (Joe Bryksa / Winnipeg Free Press).
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Take 5 with Brooke Henderson

But I would say winning my first tournament in Portland, winning my first major at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship in 2016, and then ...
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Staying one step ahead of risk

Irving Low, partner and head of risk consulting at KPMG Singapore, believes that business partnering is the "pinnacle" of mature and effective risk ...
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Part of $100 million IT upgrade at University of Texas placed on hold

A consulting firm, KPMG LLP, based in New York City, had recommended a phased implementation rather than what it called a “big bang” approach.
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The UK is rethinking university degrees and Australia should too

Stephen Parker is a partner in KPMG Australia, which consults to the .... was prepared with the help of Julie Hare, Associate Director, KPMG Australia.
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Innovators to Share How Disruptive Technologies Will Transform Society at 2017 Women in STEM ...

Vikram Kumar of Salesforce, Jennifer Fraser of Twitter, Dianne Marsh of Netflix and Mihir Jobalia of KPMG will analyze how enterprise applications are ...
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Brexit Britain and Foreign Investments: The Future Relationship

The KPMG Enterprise report showed that while there was an investment surge in Q2 for UK VC, there was a sharp drop in deal volumes from Q1 2017 ...
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Brookfield Property Partners says office incentives tumble

At the Brookfield owned KPMG building at 235 St Georges Terrace there were three new leasing deals. They were: * Three Tetra Tech companies, ...
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UK at risk of Brexit talent brain-drain

KPMG also advises businesses to work on recruitment – both in terms of overseas workers outside of the EU as well as at home, suggesting recruiting ...
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SAS, KPMG launch cloud-based IFRS9 and stress testing regtech solutions

SAS and KPMG in Singapore on Aug 29 released two new Managed Analytics Service Providers (MASP) solutions - the first cloud-based, ...
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A third of EU citizens planning to leave UK before Brexit

KPMG found that 35% of EU nationals are thinking about leaving, while 8% have already made up their minds to go and 45% plan to stay. The Big ...
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IT consultants and the covert war for the CMO's purse

Others include Adobe, Epsilon, ICF International, KPMG, Oracle, and McKinsey. Now Deloitte Digital, another top 10 advertising service provider, ...
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WGA's Caddie Academy helps girls plot a course to lifetime success

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shakes hands with Erika Rodriguez as KPMG's Lynn Doughtie and Ayana Davis look on. (Courtesy ...
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Lever Integrates With Microsoft Office 365 to Power Collaborative Recruiting

... and supports the hiring needs of over 1,300 leading companies around the globe including the teams at Netflix, Lyft, KPMG, and Owens-Illinois.
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From hardship to success

With Fumbata's BCom Honours degree completed, he was allocated to KPMG in Johannesburg to complete his articles. It was while working there that ...
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PhD Project Report: NC A&T Business School Led US in Number of Underrepresented Faculty in ...

That is positive news but there is still a long way to go," said Bernard J. Milano, president of The PhD Project and of KPMG Foundation (founder and ...
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Coveris buys assets from collapsed Gelpack

... the assets of Gelpack Industrial's Madley, Hertfordshire site, for an undisclosed fee after reaching an agreement with Gelpack administrators, KPMG.
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Swiss agency reports major breach of online credentials

A survey from the firm KPMG released in June found that 88% of Swiss companies had experienced cyber-attacks in the past year compared to 54% in ...
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Liquidators appointed to Glasgow kitchen manufacturer

Tony Friar and Blair Nimmo of KPMG LLP have been appointed as interim liquidators. Solicitor firm Raeside Chisholm Solicitors is acting for the ...
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Singaporean Blockchain Data Storage Startup Bluzelle Raises $1.5 Million in Series A

Founded in 2014, the startup has notably provided solutions for a number of global institutions after partnering the likes of KPMG and Microsoft.
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HSBC India I-banking head quits to form M&A advisory JV with Dinesh Kanabar

Former KPMG India top executive Dinesh Kanabar and HSBC Holdings Plc's India investment banking head Sunil Sanghai have joined hands to form ...
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Mitie in fresh blow as second City probe launched

An earlier review by KPMG in January found that mistakes had been made but that no accounting standards had been broken. Mitie remains among ...
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HCI unit may dismiss KPMG as auditor over Gupta links

KPMG looks set to lose another JSE client as investment company Deneb, which is part ofthe Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) group, ...
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Co-extusion expansion for Coveris

The company announced that it has reached agreement with KPMG, the administrators of Gelpack Excelsior, to purchase the equipment located at ...
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Mitie investigated by Financial Conduct Authority over timing of profit warning

In May, Mitie reported that an external review of its accounting policies by KPMG would result in write-downs totalling between £40m and £50m.
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Waikato DHB seeks approval for double original cost of building renovation

The $7.7 million refurbishment of Hamilton's KPMG building by the cash-strapped Waikato DHB was approved by the board behind closed doors in ...
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Business Person of the Month, August 2017: Albert Manifold Group Chief Executive, CRH

Albert Manifold is making something of a habit of winning the Business & Finance Business Person of the Month Award, in association with KPMG.
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Coveris invests in coextrusion lines

Coveris reached an agreement with KPMG, the administrators of Gelpack Excelsior, to purchase the equipment, including its two five-layer Hosokawa ...
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Former KPMG cyber security head takes on Isle of Wight Youth Trust role

... wealth of experience and expertise from his business background, having recently retired as global head of cyber security from KPMG, the trust said.
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End of the road for Isa or sandiwara?

... because of unfavourable inputs from FGV's advisers JP Morgan, Bank of America and KPMG as well as objections by some minority shareholders.
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Financial watchdog probes Mitie on profit warning

It also said its adviser KPMG had established that certain accounting techniques used on customer contracts were “less conservative” than rivals and ...
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Martin Bowles heads to Calvary to replace Mark Doran

Mr Bowles will work alongside former KPMG director Robin Mann, who is Calvary's national chief of innovation. Dr Mann led eHealth NSW's electronic ...
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HSBC India investment banking head Sanghai quits to start new venture

Dhruva was founded by Dinesh Kanabar, formerly a deputy chief executive for KPMG India. Sanghai, who has been with HSBC since 2010, previously ...
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Mitie facing Financial Conduct Authority probe into timing of profit warning

Mitie booked £88.3 million in one-off items in most recent accounts following a review of its accounting practices conducted by KPMG, which found ...
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FCA launches investigation into Mitie profit warning

KPMG had established that certain accounting techniques used on customer contracts were “less conservative” than rivals and that there were ...
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Emma Harvey joins Facilities Management firm Macro

Harvey has previously worked for JLL , Arabtec Holding, Serco and KPMG, and has provided expert advice to a wide range of clients in the ...
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Base salary and total remuneration of consultants in the UK

Meanwhile, the Big Four group of KPMG, EY, Deloitte and PwC all reside within the upper quartile of pay packages, thanks to their huge, diversified ...
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SoCal AAA Gets New CEO

Prior to that he worked for accountancy KPMG. Automobile Club of Southern California is the fourth-largest private company in OC, with 2016 revenue ...
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UPDATE 1-UK financial watchdog investigates Mitie over September profit warning

It appointed Phil Bentley, formerly of British Gas, as chief executive in October last year and the new management team commissioned KPMG to ...
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Troubled Mitie facing FCA probe into profit warning and information preparation

Mitie was stung by £88.3 million of one-off costs after a review of its books by KPMG showed practices that were "less conservative, albeit still ...
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Business bosses back Dons stadium bid

Nick Dalgarno, managing director of Simmons & Company International, Martin Findlay, office senior partner at KPMG Aberdeen, and John Black, ...
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Boost From Crop Insurance Scheme Comes At A Risk For Insurers

GIC Re will be affected much more if the delays in paying crop premium persist,” said KPMG's Sharma. GIC Re's consolidated dues from insurers and ...
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Singaporean blockchain startup Bluzelle raises $1.5M in series A round

It worked on a blockchain-based insurance app for KPMG and assisted Deloitte in the integration of the Ripple distributed payment system, CoinDesk ...
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Accounting firms see sales gain 8.5% in fiscal 2016

The nation's top four accounting firms -- Samil PwC, Samjong KPMG, Deloitte Anjin and EY Hanyoung -- accounted for 50.4 percent of total sales in ...
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Five days of free political haircuts in Public Trust Building

Political Cutz is supported by Wellington City Council Public Art Fund, Good Fortune Coffee co., KPMG, UNICEF New Zealand, Urban Dream ...
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Macquarie University launches 'first of its kind' retirement village contract calculator

It won't be the last village fee calculator either. As we reported here, KPMG is developing a similar tool for NSW Fair Trading that is expected to launch ...
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Business Hotels Reserve Room in New Maroochydore CBD

Leading KPMG demographer Bernard Salt predicted national technology, construction and professional services companies would have head offices ...
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Win a ticket to ride from business' best finishing school

McKinsey beat PWC, EY and KPMG in the beauty parade to advise the Department for Exiting the European Union. It has been recruited by Sir Philip ...
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FDI in Retail: Panel on waiver of local sourcing norms set up

We had done the similar interpretation earlier and now they have clarified it,” said Amarjeet Singh, leader-North India at KPMG. The government has ...
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Deloitte prioritises tech spending as revenue surges

In response to the shake up, the Big Four — Deloitte plus rivals PwC, KPMG and EY — have been increasing investment in innovation in order to gain ...
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Restoring trust after state capture

... private sector, where some companies have been implicated in the state capture report – companies such as KPMG, SAP, Bell Pottinger and others.
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Check out the new Hall Arts Residences luxury condo unit in Dallas' Arts District

The mock up apartment located at Hall's KPMG Plaza tower overlooks the construction site. It includes living and dining areas, a model kitchen and ...
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Cultural misfits slow fintech collaboration

... work together in the most productive way to deliver something new to the world,” said David Milligan, chief executive and founder of KPMG Matchi.
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CEO confidence in technology is on the rise

Automating repetitive accounting tasks can free finance professionals to play a more strategic role, Claudia Saran, principal at KPMG, said in the ...
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VAT zero rating incentive for the renewable energy sector

Lawyer Glory Grace J. Arugay is a supervisor from the tax group of KPMG R.G. Manabat & Co. (KPMG RGM&Co.), the Philippine member firm of ...
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They moved from Vancouver to Singapore to build applications on the blockchain

In Singapore, Bluzelle struck a partnership with KPMG, which helped open a line of communication with large corporates. “Us being a startup, we don't ...
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Blockchain Data Storage Startup Bluzelle Raises $1.5 Million Series A

The firm has pursued other blockchain initiatives in the past, working on a blockchain-based insurance app for KPMG, as well as assisting in Deloitte's ...
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Monday, August 28, 2017

One million EU workers looking to leave UK

KPMG's head of Brexit, Karen Briggs, said: "Our survey highlights how important the actions of employers are going to be if the UK is to avoid a Brexit ...
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Safe injecting room for addicts are a good idea but we should not pretend drug users are heroes

A KPMG report shows the Sydney centre has a high level of support from local residents and businesses, has not increased crime around it and saves ...
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Want to Sell Your Firm? Then Get Your Head Right

KPMG chimes in to say 83% of M&A deals involving publicly-traded companies don't increase shareholder returns — and A.T. Kearney says the net ...
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KPMG, Capital Club to host VAT seminar

Audit, tax, and advisory firm KPMG in Bahrain is organising a seminar in cooperation with Capital Club Bahrain to share insights on forthcoming VAT ...
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UAE leads the Arab world in adaptability to change

According to the latest KPMG report, the UAE has been rated most prepared for change in the MENA region, and third most prepared in the world.
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Those F&B delivery operators are not a threat

It was recently reported by KPMG that three out of four people in the country order takeaways or have food delivered at least once a week. Therefore it ...
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Tips for making the call centre more efficient

According to a recent KPMG analysis, growth and technology are two of the biggest challenges affecting the chief financial officer (CFO), with 70% ...
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UK faces a brain drain post-Brexit

KPMG's head of Brexit Karen Briggs conducted the research and said: "Our survey highlights how important the actions of employers are going to be if ...
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Top 8 construction projects in region

... Drive, Topgolf on International Drive, the Amazon Distribution Center in southeast Orlando and the KPMG training campus at Lake Nona.
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More about cash than care: survey

The evidence he refers to also includes a health-care sustainability report the government paid KPMG to conduct, promised to release with redactions ...
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Oppo, Vivo to soon move their cloud service locations to India: Report

... an India-ready model to one which has, that transition can become effort- and cost-oriented,” said Atul Gupta, partner of IT advisory at KPMG India.
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The UAE Has Won Another Accolade And HH Sheikh Mohammed Has Tweeted His Pride

The UAE has been rated most prepared for change in the MENA region, and third most prepared in the world, according to a new study. The KPMG ...
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Mergers not worth it unless councils have influence, administrator says

KPMG's financial modelling was extracted in merger proposal documents, which included a graph projecting the Inner West council would produce a ...
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Alex leads at Ottawa Hunt; Canadian star Henderson struggles

"I had a win (at the Meijer LPGA Classic) and I was second in a major championship (the KPMG Women's PGA Championship), which is really hard to ...
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Asia-Pacific News In Brief (August 28, 2017)

Mei was trained in accounting and worked for KPMG. BANGALORE — The PRactice has appointed Jayanthi Sethuraman president of its national ...
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Brexit brain drain will leave UK short of top employees

Among those interviewed by KPMG UK who said they were considering quitting Britain were 50 per cent of EU workers with PhDs, 39 per cent with ...
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Almost one million EU nationals in the UK considering leaving in a 'Brexit brain drain'

The survey of 2,000 EU citizens for auditors KPMG UK found 45 per cent planned to stay in Britain after Brexit, 35 per cent were considering leaving ...
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Marketing blog: What's in a statistic?

My preference is to use data from specialist research firms such as CoreData or a reputable brand such as a PwC or KPMG, who generally produce ...
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Sunday, August 27, 2017

Ireland's 'Airbnb of car rental market' aiming to raise €1m for British expansion next year

Sheehy said that he is working with KPMG for a seed round of €1m and has received interest from a range of venture capital funds and wealthy ...
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Insurance firms tap blockchain for ease of transaction

KPMG has noted that one of the most disruptive applications of blockchain would be the development of “smart contracts”, which would streamline ...
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September 16 wedding planned

She graduated from Texas Lutheran University and is an audit senior manager with KPMG in San Antonio. The groom-elect is the grandson of Gus ...
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Major highlights of Multilateral Instrument pact

Muscat: As part of KPMG's initiative to provide critical insights to the taxpayer community in Oman on various tax issues through a fortnightly series of ...
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Brexit exodus as one million EU workers see their future outside UK

KPMG's head of Brexit, Karen Briggs, said: “Our survey highlights how important the actions of employers are going to be if the UK is to avoid a Brexit ...
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Model Cheyenne Tozzi dating fellow model Marlon Teixeira

The new beau is a big shift from Tozzi's choice in men from dating KPMG head of mergers and acquisitions and arguably one of Sydney's most eligible ...
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Assets in G Hotel ownership battle worth 60 million euro

It appointed KPMG as receiver to the G Hotel and Eye Cinema in the past week – with representatives arriving at the five star hotel as a wedding ...
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KPMG in Bahrain and the Capital Club Bahrain Are Gearing up to Host Seminar on Value-Added ...

Audit, Tax, and Advisory Firm, KPMG in Bahrain is organizing a seminar in cooperation with Capital Club Bahrain to share insights on forthcoming VAT ...
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Alexandra Gottfried, Jason Garfield

Mr. Garfield, 27, is an audit manager at KPMG, the accounting and consulting company, in Manhattan. He received a master's degree in accounting ...
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VP hails UAE's success

... Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum commented on his Instagram account about KPMG's 2017 Change Readiness Index (CRI).
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A million skilled EU workers see their future outside Britain

A survey of 2,000 EU workers in Britain by KPMG, the professional services firm, found that 55% of those with PhDs and 49% of those with ...
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Canadian Henderson shoots 63 to make big move at Ottawa Hunt

Henderson has four LPGA Tour victories, winning the major KPMG Women's PGA last year and the Meijer LPGA Classic in June. She trying to join ...
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CSU Jim Blanchard Leadership Forum key note speakers announced, includes Octavia Spencer

... David Perdue – U.S. Senator and Former Fortune 500 CEO; Bruce Pfau – Partner, Human Capital Strategy and Culture Transformation, KPMG, LLP ...
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Bihar govt mulls incentives for IT companies

Audit and consulting firm KPMG was recently roped in by the IT department for brand promotion of Bihar in the IT sector. Direct invitations have also ...
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Saturday, August 26, 2017

Mohammed hails UAE's success in KPMG report

DUBAI: Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum commented on his ...
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The reality of MaaS has arrived, by Ben Foulser, associate director, Infrastructure Advisory Practice ...

This is the driver for KPMG's MaaS Requirement Index -- a tool that allows operators and authorities to understand the optimum level of regulation and ...
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Marine fuel station 'fully compliant' with rules

The government is aware of this, but does not care. Also KPMG reports for EU, state that Malta is one of the highest ranking for illicit trade of cigarettes.
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The New Gold Rush – Defense Systems for India

... large companies that are supported by their government with large, long-term defense orders,” said Amber Dubey of the KPMG consultancy in India.
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Bergman & Beving AB: Annual General Meeting of Bergman & Beving AB held 24 August 2017

The Annual General Meeting resolved to re-elect the registered accounting firm KPMG AB as the Company's auditors for the period ending with the ...
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Friday, August 25, 2017

In Gee Chun takes lead, Brooke Henderson survives cut at Ottawa

Henderson has four LPGA Tour victories, winning the major KPMG Women's PGA last year and the Meijer LPGA Classic in June. "I know everybody's ...
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In Gee Chun leads in Canada; Brooke Henderson survives cut

Henderson has four LPGA Tour victories, winning the major KPMG Women's PGA last year and the Meijer LPGA Classic in June. “I know everybody's ...
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KPMG Joins Industrial Affiliates Program With UCLA's Computer Science Department

NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- KPMG announced today that it has joined the Industrial Affiliates Program with UCLA's Computer Science ...
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Dentons Boekel opens tax practice in Netherlands

Reinoud started his career with Loyens & Volkmaars in 1996, before moving on to Loyens & Loeff and later KPMG. He spent eight and a half years in ...
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Deloitte, PwC lead Klas rankings of global health IT consulting firm

... provider organizations in the study are: Deloitte, 34 percent; PwC, 29 percent; The HCI Group, 18 percent; KPMG, 16 percent; Accenture, 15 percent; ...
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LGP to sell USIC to Partners Group

Ropes & Gray LLP and KPMG LLP are serving as legal and financial advisers, respectively, to Partners Group on the deal while Deutsche Bank and ...
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Beyond Integrated Reporting: Multicapital Accounting of Integral Data

The Data Blueprint adds KPMG's True Value methodology to its scope of inquiry to explore two other issues: valuation (or monetization) and ...
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Adelaide proton adviser on payroll of bidder

KPMG has been called in to conduct “financial due diligence” on ProTom, a privately held company with offices in the US that, since 2011, has won ...
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British Wool acquires Kent Wool Growers' wool handling operation

Following their appointment, KPMG will continue to trade the business and assets of KWG, with a view to securing a purchaser for all or parts of the ...
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Galway's G Hotel Placed into Examinership

Speaking to the Irish Times, Mr. Barrett said: “KPMG requested a creditors' listing from the hotel accountant and proceeded to contact creditors to notify ...
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People in the news: Moore Stephens, Crowe Clark Whitehill, Shaw Gibbs

She joined the firm from KPMG in 1996. Simmons is also a member of the Non-Administrative Receivers Association (NARA) specialising in Law of ...
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Indian American Executive Faces Racial Abuse from Trump Supporters

Ravin Gandhi began his career at KPMG in Chicago. In 1995, Mr. Gandhi joined Coatings and Chemicals Corporation (CCC), a family owned supplier ...
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Indian mobile services market to touch US$ 103.9 billion by 2020: Study

... 280 million in 2016, a surge in revenue from Rs 111,000 crore in 2015 to Rs 135,000 crore in 2016, according to an ASSOCHAM-KPMG joint study.
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Microsoft Accelerator Chooses All-B2B Cohort

B2B startups are gaining more attention among investors, with the latest stats from KPMG's Pulse of FinTech report finding B2B startups are leading a ...
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USBLN RECOGNIZES LEADERS IN DISABILITY INCLUSION WITH 2017 LEADERSHIP AWARDS

... Manager, Supplier Diversity & Sustainable Procurement, KPMG, as a procurement champion who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to the ...
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Timesheets to track employees become mandatory in Romania

... don't take into account the realities of the business environment and the flexibility of working relations, said Madalina Racovitan, KPMG tax partner.
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Landmark G Hotel In Galway City Enters Examinership

The Irish Independent reports today that representatives from KPMG arrived at the hotel last Friday, at a time when staff were preparing for a 163-guest ...
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Why SMPs should enter onto Uganda oil and gas database

... to know who had made it so far within the accounting and auditing firm industry and found it was only the Big-4 (Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC).
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Interim examiner appointed to G Hotel and Eye Cinema

According to today's Irish Independent, representatives from KPMG arrived at the G Hotel, Lough Atalia as a wedding reception was getting underway ...
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Business model innovation: Beyond the traditional way of innovating in hospitality

While historically we attribute much of that innovation potential to product, process or service innovations, a study conducted by KPMG in 2015 ...
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Form 8-K LM FUNDING AMERICA, INC. For: Aug 21

Upon graduation from USF, Mr. Gist served as an external auditor for KPMG for approximately five years. Prior to joining the Company in January 2016 ...
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Amjath Careem, youngest student to complete CA exams

Amjath's maternal grandfather T.S. Samath was a legendary auditor at Ford, Rhodes, Thornton and Company (now KPMG) under whom many of the ...
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Thursday, August 24, 2017

G Hotel and Eye Cinema in Galway enter examinership

In an affidavit filed to the High Court on Tuesday, Mr Barrett applied for the appointment of an examiner after receiver KPMG had been dispatched to ...
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Ceylon Chamber to hold seminar on new Inland Revenue law

... at 2 pm will be kicked off with presentations by Mr. Sulaiman Nisthar, Partner, Ernst & Young and Ms. Shamila Jayasekera, Partner-Tax, KPMG.
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Respected American business magazine focus on the island

A few years ago KPMG released a report identifying the key clusters in the UK. The article says that the island, 'home to around 85,000 people and ...
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Airservices kicks off transformation to become 'leaner' and more 'agile'

In a request for proposal (RFP), KPMG, on behalf of Airservices, is asking for an "experienced, dynamic vendor" that is capable of working with the ...
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Best In Glass mixology competition returns

100WF is thrilled that so many of last year's teams, including Deloitte, KPMG, MUFG and PwC, are returning, and welcome new teams such as FTI.
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Battle for G Hotel begins as bank moves on Barrett

The arrival of representatives from KPMG to the premises last Friday came just as staff were preparing to cater for a wedding with 163 guests.
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