Deloitte Powers On In Social Media, But Australian Companies Lag

Nita Teoh, Big4.com

August 5, 2010

Social media is proving to be a powerful force on the business front. And it has been used in multiple ways by innovative companies, as in building a company’s brand, increasing engagement with partners, customers and employees, as also to recruit talent and manage external public relations.

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Deloitte’s iPad Sales Predictions Are Right On The Money

Rob Starr, Big4.com

July 16, 2010

A recent update to Deloitte’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications Predictions 2010 has some findings that would have been quite anticipated given the state of the economy, but that the demand for mobile searches was slower than expected was a little surprising.

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Deloitte Realizes Synergies From BearingPoint Federal Practice. Thousands Hired

Charles Harper, Big4.com

July 12, 2010

More than a year ago, on March 25, 2009, we wrote about the imminent breakup of BearingPoint with business assets being sold to various Big Four firms and to BearingPoint Europe management (http://bigfouralumni.blogspot.com/2009/03/bearingpoint-breakup-imminent-business.html).

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Will Deloitte Buy Booz or Kearney?

Susan Black, Big4.com

July 6, 2010

With the recent calling off of the Booz Kearney merger, and Deloitte USA open to acquisitions, would Deloitte pursue any of these consulting firms and attempt to combine with Deloitte Consulting?

Deloitte UK has been on an acquisition tear, and we've wondered why its been so quiet Stateside.

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Where There is Tax, There Will Be Tax Havens. Big Four Firms Hope So Too

James Spencer, Big4.com

July 1, 2010

As the old saying goes, there’s nothing certain in the world except death and taxes.

Taxes can be avoided (to some degree) by going to tax havens, jurisdictions that shelter corporate and individual profits from onerous taxation.

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Did The Big Four Firms Help Topple The Australian Prime Minister?

Susan Black, Big4.com

June 26, 2010

Just recently, Australia's Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, was deposed by his own Labor Party today, shocking the nation as his popularity plunged over recent months due mainly to the controversial pushing of a 40% resource super profits tax (RSPT) on mining companies, which turned out to be highly unpopular both with industry, shareholders and the general public.

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KPMG and Deloitte Now Want More Time to Restate Satyam Financials

June 14, 2010

David Nelson

We have blogged extensively earlier about the huge Satyam scam (January 2009), PricewaterhouseCoopers India’s involvement and subsequent hiring of KPMG and Deloitte to restate the company’s financials (from 2002 to 2009) and come out with the truth about the exact financial position, the nature of true accounting and set to rest speculation on how this travesty was perpetrated.

The restatement would clear up the real situation about the financials, and clarify whether Mr Raju had fudged the accounts or diverted the funds from the IT company to finance his real estate companies.

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New Zealand Tax Budgets and PAYE Gets Deloitte and KPMG Support

June 14, 2010
By Pratish Prabhakan, Big4.com

The New Zealand government is seeking feedback from the public on the proposed changes in its tax system. The proposed changes are an attempt to simplify the existing tax system and make it easier for tax payers to manage their tax affairs. The proposals include simplifying the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) system. The government has released a discussion document “Making Tax Easier” and started an online forum. The proposed changes reduce the number of interactions taxpayers must have with the Inland Revenue. PAYE would be treated as the final tax for some people.

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Accenture, Deloitte Jumping In On Digital Marketing Consulting

Nita Teoh, Big4.com

June 12, 2010

The digital age is coming at us real fast!

All types of companies are starting to invest in digital marketing over traditional advertising, as trends indicate that consumer highly prefer online news and entertainment through digital mediums.

Digital marketing encompasses the use of any digital mediums to promote a company’s brand. It includes the Internet, television, radio, and mobile for advertising to consumers.

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Deloitte Ride Across Britain – North to South Non Stop for Nine Days

We’ve never come across this before, and for good reason.

The inaugural Deloitte Ride Across Britain event is being offered for the first time this year. And it starts tomorrow, June 12, 2010, a full 9 day ride to bike from the northern most point of the British Isles - John O’Groats to its southernmost point - Lands End...

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AT Kearney Booz(es). Big Four Firm Stay Sober

Both Financial Times and Wall Street Journal are reporting that AT Kearney and Booz & Co. are considering a merger to bulk up and get into seventh place globally behind McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group...

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US MBAs Favor Deloitte Hugely Over Other Big Four Firms

The recent Universum American MBA Survey shows that MBA students perceive Deloitte much higher up in the scale as an attractive US employer as compared to other Big Four firms and generally other top employers...



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Yes, There’s A (Deloitte) Game for That!

If you’ve been hearing the buzz on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, and are truly unaware of what this is all about, there’s now a fun way to learn all about it by just playing....

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Deloitte’s Birkett Helps Dubai World Reach Agreement

We have blogged extensively about Dubai World, whose debt default announcement shocked world markets in Thanksgiving 2009. And that Deloitte UK’s Aidan Birkett was first representing the debtor and then finally joined Dubai World as its Chief Restructuring Officer in November 2009....

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Deloitte: Executives Seem To Feel A Double Dip Is Coming

Ever have that sinking feeling that this current upswing may just not have the legs needed to power us out of this recession?

You may not be alone....

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PCAOB Inspection of Deloitte Audit – 20% Error Rate??

In its first inspection report of a Big Four firm in the year 2010, the PCAOB just released its 2009 inspection report of Deloitte & Touche LLP, finding quite a high percentage of errors in the sample of audits selected to be reviewed....

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Deloitte India A Bomb Target?

Indian papers are just reporting that Indian police had arrested Mohammad Zia Ul Haq in the southern city of Hyderabad, who was apparently directed by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)to “bomb the Hyderabad office of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, one of the four largest auditors in the world, and was in the process of carrying out the plan.” He has “already procured the explosives supplied by the LeT to carry out the attack, sources said.”...

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Top 100 US Accounting Firms Reveal Decline, Glimmers of Hope

Accounting Today (www.webcpa.com, http://www.webcpa.com/news/Accounting-Today-Top-100-Firms-2010-53590-1.html) came out recently with its very insightful, comprehensive and timely 2010 annual ranking of accounting firms in the US. From this wealth of data, we will focus selectively on the Big Four and Next Four firms in this blog post. Thanks to Accounting Today for collating and publishing this very useful summary...

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Deloitte: Worst Behind Us. Hiring and Retaining Talent Are Top Priorities

We just talked about PricewaterhouseCoopers’ 13th annual global CEO survey, which showed a remarkable improvement in CEO confidence this year as compared to last year 2008....

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Scammers Attack PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte

It appears that scam artists have latched on to Big Four firms.

At this time, we see that PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte are the victims of two publicly known attacks....

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