Ernst and Young Paints Bright Future for Electric Cars. Can Tesla Benefit??

John Fowler, Big4.com

July 2, 2010

Ernst & Young’s Global Automotive Center finds that over 25% of 1,000 drivers surveyed across US, Europe, China and Japan would likely consider purchasing plug-in hybrid (PHEVs) or electric vehicle (EVs) as soon as they become available on the market, according to research by. Nearly 7% of respondents globally indicated they would definitely consider buying a PHEV or EV.

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RSM McGladrey: Private Equity More Confident, Focus on Growth and Hiring

Watch private equity to get a good sense of ground-level operating performance and cash flow.

When these typically hard-nosed guys get optimistic, then very likely things are getting better....


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Hiring To Surge in the UK Private Sector

It’s the kind of news that brings good cheer after a deluge of gloomy reports.

The latest quarterly CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook survey in the United Kingdom (800 employers respondents) shows that the country’s emergence out of recession is now leading to better job prospects....


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Grant Thornton: Do Not Expect Higher Salary or Bonus This Year

Grant Thornton has some less than promising news for all professionals.

The firm surveyed 496 U.S. CFOs and senior comptrollers from March 22 through April 5, 2009, and found that 53% plan no salary changes in the next 6 months, while 32% plan to decrease and 15% plan to increase...

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Ernst and Young Says Companies Tiptoeing Into 2010, Still Nervous

Ernst and Young just came out with some survey results which suggest that the overwhelmingly positive outcomes we have seen from recent PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG global surveys needs to be tempered with a bit of caution...

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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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Ernst and Young’s Top Entrepreneurs Maintain Vision Despite Tough Conditions

Entrepreneurs are hardy folks. Undeterred by current circumstances, they are entirely focused on their vision and a rosier tomorrow.

And in this deep and difficult recession, Ernst & Young found that entrepreneur-driven companies are still looking for growth and opportunity in these tough times by adapting their operating methods to set themselves up for market leadership when the economy does turn to the upside...

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Deloitte Finds 2009 Holiday Shoppers Will Use A Lot More Social Media

Deloitte’s recently published 24th Annual Holiday Survey of retail spending and trends vindicates what you are likely seeing all around you. Consumers are expected to increasingly use social media for their holiday shopping this year...

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Deloitte: Record Pessimism in Global CFOs, High Future Uncertainty

Deloitte recently surveyed US Chief Financial Officers as part of a periodic quarterly initiative to understand how current stock market and economic environment is having an impact on their future expectations, concerns and plans for their companies...

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KPMG Survey Finds EU Heading Rapidly Towards Recession

KPMG finds the European Union is quickly heading towards a recession. The recently published KPMG Business Outlook Survey, which questions 2,800 service sector firms all across the Union finds that the 12-month outlook for business activity has turned negative. Moreover, activity is expected to decrease on both volume and revenue fronts, and disturbingly, every non-price measure has fallen into negative territory, including new business, employment, profits, capital expenditure and outsourcing...

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Big Four Firms Have Top Spots as Desirable Employers

The Universum USA survey of most desirable employers from the perspective of over 40,000 US undergraduates conducted from December 2007-April 2008 puts the Big Four Accounting Firms within the top 20...



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PricewaterhouseCoopers - IT Security Getting Stronger

A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers survey finds that companies are investing in IT security infrastructure but lagging on their monitoring and enforcement. The 5th annual Global State of Information Security Survey 2007, the largest multi-industry 120+-country survey of its kind, contains responses of 7,200 IT, security and business executives...

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