Accenture Interactive loses second leader in a year
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The local managing director of Accenture Interactive, Michael Buckley, has left the company after almost six years.
The local managing director of Accenture Interactive, Michael Buckley, has left the company after almost six years.
A group of dissident chartered accountants says a proposal to extend the maximum term of directors will stifle the ability of members to have a direct say in how the body is run.
Former Canberra Transport director-general Emma Thomas is set to join big four consultancy PwC as a partner.
Workplace experts have warned KPMG's complaint-handling processes may be scaring employees and partners away from speaking out about bad behaviour.
KPMG’s leadership has asked an audit partner to retire early and ran a secret internal investigation into another senior partner accused of workplace bullying.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has expressed his love for accountants on the campaign trail, but both major accounting bodies are attacking Labor's main tax policies.
The union leader turned KPMG partner says he plans to continue growing KPMG's presence as a service provider for private and emerging businesses.
A book on the global history of the big four consulting firms and the pressures they now face has won this year's Ashurst Business Literature Prize.
Two shareholder class actions over sandalwood grower Quintis, targeting the company and EY, continue to wind their way through the Federal Court.
The big four consulting firms face a range of court actions over their auditing and advisory work.
Chartered Accountants ANZ is using a survey that shows public support for increasing the scope of auditors' work to push for greatly expanding their role.
Almost 20 per cent of surveyed Australian accountants said they offered an outsourced CFO service, compared with only 5 per cent of overseas accountants.
Deloitte has failed to strike out claims made in two shareholder class actions that allege the firm's accounting work on failed retailer Dick Smith was negligent.
KPMG has agreed to the in-principle settlement "without any admission of liability" after Discovery Metals shareholders alleged the consulting firm provided misleading advice.
The UK competition regulator has recommended the audit and consulting arms of the big four consulting firms be split into separate operating units.
Deloitte is on a mission to extend into all types of professional services but the big four consulting firm may be struggling to accommodate the truly creative types.
PwC has announced its partners pay an average tax rate of 37 per cent, just below the 39 per cent average tax rate for Australians earning more than $180,000 a year but above the 30 per cent corporate tax rate.
Consulting firms are exploiting growing demand for their advice by chasing growth at the expense of quality client service, according to Alex Liu, the global head of management consulting firm AT Kearney.
A local consulting firms is using intelligent software to analyse workers' emails to provide a real-time view of how staff feel and predict what they might do next.
A Coalition-led inquiry into the use of consultants and contractors by the federal government was allowed to lapse without releasing a report.
Accenture is trying to add the kind of creative muscle not normally associated with giant consulting firms with its plans to buy Droga5, an independent ad agency.
But the corporate regulator still has to determine if it will "name and shame" firms over poor quality audits.
The accountancy firm is developing detailed plans to split its UK audit and non-audit businesses into separate subsidiaries after British MPs called for a break-up of the larger big four firms.
The competition regulator will not push ahead with its probe into the big four consulting firms – Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC – over allegations they operated as a cartel due to insufficient evidence.
Deloitte says its partners on average pay more tax than companies and are discouraged from using a tax reduction technique known as the 'Everett assignment'.
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