Monthly Archive: October 2010

Rob Starr, Big4.com Staff Reporter
31 October 2010

Deloitte’s 25th Annual Holiday Survey has some interesting findings including the fact most consumers will start their holiday gift search online. Deloitte finds that 62% plan to spend more or the same … Continue reading…

Kenneth Guillame, Big4.com Staff Reporter
31 October 2010

PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC U.S. appoints Christopher Toohey as a partner in San Francisco focused on Internal Audit-related services within PwC’s Northern California Risk Assurance practice, which has 100 professionals providing services in internal … Continue reading…

Kenneth Guillame, Big4.com Staff Reporter
31 October 2010

The global oil and gas industry, which operates at the confluence of geography, politics and the economy appears to be facing at this time an uncertain environment, owing largely to big variations … Continue reading…

Rob Starr, Big4.com Staff Reporter
31 October 2010

Differing patterns of growth are highlighting global imbalances that are bypassing some of the world’s biggest markets. The United States, Eurozone, China, India, Japan, United Kingdom, Russia, Brazil, and Australia are all … Continue reading…

Rob Starr, Big4.com Staff Reporter
31 October 2010

Canadian mortgage holders will benefit because the Canadian broker market will remain a fixture in the Canadian mortgage distribution landscape which contrasts the situation in the United States. This from the ‘Deloitte: … Continue reading…

Kenneth Guillame, Big4.com Staff Reporter
31 October 2010

Morningstar, Inc., (Nasdaq: MORN) a leading provider of independent investment research, appoints KPMG LLP as its independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year beginning Jan. 1, 2011, to replace Ernst … Continue reading…

Erica deVry, Big4.com Staff Reporter
30 October 2010

A new report by the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) and KPMG finds that Australia’s $102 billion food and grocery industry continues to be the biggest manufacturing sector in the country, … Continue reading…

Rob Starr, Big4.com Staff Reporter
30 October 2010

For the second time in the award’s history, Deloitte has been honored with the Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized Global Award. Overall excellence and innovation in using Oracle applications was the deciding factor for … Continue reading…

Rob Starr, Big4.com Staff Reporter
30 October 2010

The UK’s Accounting Standard Board (ASB) exposure draft will have an affect on the future of the UK’s accounting framework that will overshadow International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) that were introduced five … Continue reading…

Erica deVry, Big4.com Staff Reporter
30 October 2010

KPMG UK welcomes the issue of the Accounting Standards Board’s (ASB’s) Financial Reporting Exposure Draft (FRED) outlining the proposed future for financial reporting in the UK, which the firm says are a … Continue reading…

Erica deVry, Big4.com Staff Reporter
30 October 2010

Grant Thornton UK LLP is providing the firm’s response to the recent Accounting Standards Board (ASB) FRED draft in that it recommends the adoption of a proposed revised accounting framework for UK … Continue reading…

Erica deVry, Big4.com Staff Reporter
30 October 2010

Isobel Sharp, audit partner at Deloitte commented on the UK Accounting Standards Board (ASB)’s Financial Reporting Exposure Draft (‘the FRED’) which lays out proposals for the future of reporting in the … Continue reading…

Rob Starr, Big4.com Staff Reporter
30 October 2010

Deloitte Australian Wealth Leader Sarah Woodhouse commends the winner of the fifth annual Financial Services Council/Deloitte Future Leaders award, Colonial First State product manager Gideon Lipschitz who will take the trip to … Continue reading…

Erica deVry, Big4.com Staff Reporter
30 October 2010

Ernst & Young (E&Y) commented on the publication of the Financial Reporting Exposure Drafts (“FREDs”) by the UK Accounting Standards Board – the proposed ‘new UK GAAP’. In summary, the firm indicates … Continue reading…

Rob Starr, Big4.com Staff Reporter
28 October 2010

By a ‘considerable margin’ Kennedy Consulting Research & Advisory has named Deloitte the world’s largest consulting provider and management consulting firm. globally, based on 2009 aggregate revenues. The findings, based on the … Continue reading…