Monthly Archive: October 2011

By Michael Foster, Big4.com Blogger

In an effort to focus on its sustainable business solutions services, PwC has hired two new directors with extensive experience in business sustainability and strategy consulting.

Eric Israel joins PwC … Continue reading…

Rob Starr, Big4.com Staff Reporter

Tom Gosling, partner at PwC comments on the fact that the IDS today released their analysis of FTSE100 company director pay recently.

He says that it is important to highlight the IDS survey is focused … Continue reading…

Rob Starr, Big4.com Staff Reporter

Underlying incentive models are somewhat ineffective. This is a direct result from the global slowdown according to PwC findings.

Karen Crous, Associate Director in Tax at PwC comments saying that reward mixes where there … Continue reading…

Rob Starr, Big4.com Staff Reporter

Dominic Nixon, Asia Pacific Financial Services Leader, PwC LLP Singapore has noted that prospects for both inbound and outbound financial services M&A  in Singapore will be strongly positive in the next 12 months as 50% … Continue reading…

Kenneth Guillame, Big4.com Staff Reporter

According to a study of 461 CFOs profiled in a CFO Competencies and Profile study undertaken by KPMG Institutes in Singapore, around 75 percent of CFOs polled in Singapore worked at a different job previously … Continue reading…

Kenneth Guillame, Big4.com Staff Reporter  

The Singapore chapter of the KPMG Institutes global network launched earlier this year is the first outside of the U.S.

The KPMG Institutes network was developed to help business professionals perform their role better. Each … Continue reading…

Erica deVry, Big4.com Staff Reporter

Ernst & Young‘s Oil and Gas Eye Index, which has been in decline since the beginning of 2011, recorded the largest quarterly drop in its value since the end of 2008. The Index, which … Continue reading…

Erica deVry, Big4.com Staff Reporter

Ernst & Young is pleased to announce the return of Paul Siviour to the firm in his new role as Oceania Banking and Capital Markets leader.

As a former Partner in Ernst & Young’s Corporate … Continue reading…

Ethan Strassfield, Big4.com Staff Reporter

Suncorp, one of Australia’s largest insurers, helped create nearly 3,700 new jobs in the immediate aftermath of last summer’s string of natural disasters in Queensland, according to a recent Deloitte report, generating more than $1.2 … Continue reading…

Ethan Strassfield, Big4.com Staff Reporter

Examining the stresses and uncertainties in the economic environments of the Eurozone, the United States, China, Japan, the United Kingdom, India, Russia, Brazil, and Mexico, economists from Deloitte have published their findings in the fourth … Continue reading…

Kenneth Guillame, Big4.com Staff Reporter              

China’s large securities brokers want to expand their business operations and obtain listing opportunities overseas, according to a recent KPMG survey.

In 2006, ten mainland brokers were approved to set up Hong Kong subsidiaries. According … Continue reading…

Erica deVry, Big4.com Staff Reporter

In a recent report, Ernst & Young highlights the issues facing the UK Government’s non-domestic Green Deal (NDGD) and the potential for creating energy efficiency in small and medium sized businesses.

The report, ‘Making … Continue reading…

Erica deVry, Big4.com Staff Reporter

Fast-growing global markets are challenging the position of the established advanced economies. In the last ten years, rapid growth markets (RGMs) have grown on average by 5.8% per year, more than three times as fast … Continue reading…

Kenneth Guillame, Big4.com Staff Reporter  

In an effort to develop future leaders in both the academic and business sectors, a joint initiative between KPMG and Monash University’s Asia-Pacific Centre for Science and Wealth Creation has been created to present students … Continue reading…

Ethan Strassfield, Big4.com Staff Reporter

A recent Deloitte poll reveals information technology and business executives across the United States are generally unfamiliar when it comes to mobile security policies and precautions in their organizations, and how that relates to external … Continue reading…