Accenture Furthers Its Green Initiatives – Getting on Company’s Agendas Through IT

Accenture recently announced its Accenture Green Technology Suite, which is a comprehensive set of tools focused on helping companies assess its environmental standing, provide recommendations to better manage its carbon footprint through effective IT management and supporting the entire organization’s green agenda...

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Club Med? No! Euro-Mediterranean . The next investment frontier

Ernst & Young’s BaroMed survey has recently found that the Euro-Mediterranean zone has good potential for significant growth opportunities for international investors. This zone has 17 countries: France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Malta, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and Syria. This group ranks third among the world’s regions in terms of GDP and among the top three for foreign direct investment (FDI)...

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Deloitte First Out of Gate with 2007 Results: Revenues Up a Staggering 19%

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu ("Deloitte") just came out with its fiscal year 2008 aggregate member firm performance for year from July 2007 to June 2008. Global revenue increased from US$23.1 billion in FY2007 by 18.6% in U.S. dollars, and 13.0% in local currencies to US$27.4 billion, marking an amazing sixth consecutive year of U.S. dollar double-digit revenue growth from continuing operations. Growth was seen in each and every service line and geographic region delivered strong growth. The global slowdown seemed to have no effect on this tremendous growth performance...

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KPMG Predicts Slowdown in Global Mergers and Acquisitions in 2008

KPMG's Global M&A Predictor anticipates that the global deal environment will likely deteriorate into the second half of 2008, with both deal value and volume with forward-looking corporate valuations down 10% compared to just 6 months ago. The firm’s predictor shows a decrease in both ‘appetite’ (forward valuations) and ‘capacity’ (estimated net debt to EBITDA) for M&A activity...

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Accenture Stock Shines Brightly Compared to Big4 Peers

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has proven its solid business model with investors by producing the best shareholder performance in comparison with its other Big4 siblings, Capgemini (PARIS: CAP.PA) and BearingPoint (NYSE: BE)...

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10 Million Wealthy Folks Own An Astounding $40 Trillion!

The recently released 12th annual World Wealth Report co-authored by Capgemini and Merrill Lynch has some amazing findings:

The number of global high net worth individuals (HNWIs, with wealth greater than $1 million) rose 6% in 2007 to 10.1 million, and the number of ultra high net worth individuals (Ultra-HNWIs, with wealth greater than $30 million) increased by 8.8%. For the first time in the history of this report, the average assets held by HNWIs exceeded US$4 million. The combined assets of HNWIs now exceeds $40 trillion!...

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PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Celebrates Tens Years By Giving Generously

Tens Years of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP!

Hard to believe, but it’s been a full decade today that Pricewaterhouse LLP merged with Coopers and Lybrand LLP to form PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, now the largest single accounting firm on the planet and the leader of the Big Four firms...

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