Search Results - "KPMG"
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An opportunity to form a Joint Venture between KPMG Europe LLP and Tata Consultancy Services
Published 2012“…One of these companies the group analysed namely KPMG Europe LLP had extended their core competency and developing their business in management consulting. …”
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Analysis of market & business strategies of key players in UK professional services sector For Tata Consultancy Services MBA 2012
Published 2012“…The report has discussion for the first three companies i.e. KPMG Europe LLP, G4S plc and Rentokil Initial plc. …”
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Effects of Ability to Assess Fraud Risk, Fraud Risk Level and Personality Factors on the Ability to Detect the Likelihood of Fraud
Published 2008“…Even though guidance has already been provided by the Malaysian standards, KPMG Malaysia's (2003) survey reports that external auditors discover only 4% of fraud incidences in Malaysian companies. …”
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What should be the strategy of Wipro to position itself as one of the Top 5 IT consulting partners in the Banking sector of European region ?
Published 2014“…Average return on Equity of the BFSI firms in Europe is trading in single digit (KPMG , 2014). Economic conditions across Europe has been improving since 2011 and with a changing demand of technology focused customers, the medium and small sized BFSI firms are replacing their legacy IT systems with advanced IT systems but struggling to get the best value for investment. …”
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Investigating How Risk Management Evolved in BP and IBM Over the Last Decade (from 2003 to 2012)
Published 2013“…Risk management has evolved over decades; risk management takes the top place of the global corporate agenda (KPMG, 2013). In order to get a deep understanding of how the risk management evolved over the last decade, this research will give a detailed investigation of risk evolution for BP and IBM over the last ten years, this investigation will focus on four key perspectives the risk management related of risk disclosure, risk management process, chief risk officer, risk committee and audit committee.…”
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Does Corporate Governance Increase Shareholder Value?
Published 2005“…The first study used is the 2003 KPMG/The Edge Annual Shareholder Values. This report provided the top 100 companies listed on the Bursa Malaysia that had the highest shareholder value. …”
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Drivers of corporate sustainability – perspectives from organizations in Malaysia.
Published 2018“…According to a survey carried out by KPMG (2015) the quality of Corporate Sustainability reporting improved in the Asia Pacific region by 52% in 2015 as opposed to 50% in 2013, moreover Malaysia has obtained the highest rating at 99% in respect to this survey’s findings related to countries that report CS activities on an annual basis. …”
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The Implementation Of Knowledge Strategies For Competitive Advantage In Selected Malaysian Government- Linked Companies
Published 2013“…The cases were found to have differed in the levels of KS maturity which illustrated the inherent differences in the KS being implemented by the GLCs. Based on the KPMG maturity model (1999), that the GLCs had achieved either pre-innovative or advanced stages allowing companies to identify where they stand in their KM journey and what initiatives or further steps of improvement the company to be considered. …”
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Lean in Healthcare: What is Required to Support a Successful Hospital Lean Improvement Programme?
Published 2019“…A systematic lean approach to improvement appears to be delivering sustained success in healthcare organisations in Canada and the United States (Toussaint & Berry, 2013; Kaplan et al, 2014) and now in the UK (KPMG, 2018; BBC News, 2019) and the NHS is therefore investing in this type of programme, (Health Service Journal (HSJ), 2015). …”
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Detecting accounting anomalies using benford’s law : evidence from the Malaysian public sector / Nooraslinda Abdul Aris … [et al.]
Published 2017“…Surveys and reports by ACFE, Deloitte, KPMG and NFA confirmed that the public sector is more vulnerable to fraud compared to the private sector. …”
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Detecting accounting anomalies using Benford's Law: evidence from the Malaysian public sector / Nooraslinda Abdul Aris ... [et al.]
Published 2017“…Surveys and reports by ACFE, Deloitte, KPMG and NFA confirmed that the public sector is more vulnerable to fraud compared to the private sector. …”
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How companies could adapt disclosures in annual / sustainability reports as proxy data for BNM taxonomy reporting to obtain green financing
Published 2022“…There is also the issue of adaptability with current disclosures through annual reports having little to no effect in obtaining green financing from financial institutions or in compliance with Bank Negara Malaysia’s Climate Change and Principle-based Taxonomy. According to the KPMG 2021 CEO Outlook study, 70% of CEOs in Asia-Pacific stated businesses are facing greater demand from stakeholders for more reporting and transparency on ESG concerns, with institutional investors (57%) and regulators (31 percent ) being the primary sources of pressure. …”
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Information disclosure and financial performance among Malaysian public listed companies / Nurazrin Mat Tarmezi
Published 2015“…Managers’ misbehavior and false evaluation are resulted from the information asymmetry that exists between managers and other stakeholders. KPMG had conducted a survey on fraud, bribery and corruption in Malaysia and found that one of the factors is due to insufficient disclosure, which provided rooms for managers to act illegally. …”
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Audit specialisation in Malaysia
Published 2008“…With data coming from annual reports of companies listed at the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE – now, Bursa Malaysia) and industry specialists defined as market leaders with market share greater than 20 percent of audit services (in terms of the number of clients) within a client specific industry, it is found that Ernst and Young specialising in construction and plantation, KPMG in industrial products, PricewaterhouseCoopers in finance and Arthur Andersen in finance,plantation, technology and trading/services.…”
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A Study of Malaysian Audit Market Concentration
Published 2012“…The Big Four firms held more than 80% of the market share (based on audit fees) in both years 2008 and 2009. KPMG retained its position as a 'dominant firm' while Deloitte is the 'least dominant firm' among the Big Four firms. …”
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The Impact of Enhanced Communication Requirement and other Determinants on Audit Fees
Published 2018“…Additional, the study suggests that size of the company, poor performance and ability to meet short term obligation are important determinants of audit fees.Two highly reputable audit firms namely, PWC and KPMG, are found to charge higher fees than others. …”
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Role of Internal Auditors in Whistle Blowing Program to Reduce Corporate Fraud
Published 2010“…According to Fraud Survey 2004 by KPMG Malaysia, 62 percent of respondents felt that fraud is a serious problem for Malaysian business. …”
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Audit specialisation in Malaysia
Published 2006“…Recent events, especially with respect to the failure of Enron, have created an increased awareness regarding the importance of high quality audit.In general, prior research has used the Big 6/non-Big 6 dichotomy to differentiate audit quality (Palmrose, 1986).However, a second body of research suggests that industry specialisation represents an additional level of audit quality beyond the Big 6/non-Big 6 dichotomy.In this study, the focus is on trends in industry specialisation from 1999 to 2002 by applying audit firm industry market share measure as proxy for audit firm industry expertise or specialisation.Specifically, the market share approach assumes that by observing the relative market shares of the audit firm servicing a particular industry, one can deduce those which may be known as industry specialists (Zeff and Fossum, 1967; Rhode et al., 1974; Schiff and Fried, 1976; Dopuch and Simunic, 1980, 1982; Danos and Eichenseher, 1982; Craswell and Taylor, 1991; Craswell et al., 1995; Kwon, 1996; Beelde, 1997; and Hogan and Jeter, 1999).With data coming from annual reports of companies listed at the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE – now, Bursa Malaysia) and industry specialists defined as market leaders with market share greater than 20 percent of audit services (in terms of the number of clients) within a client specific industry, it is found that Ernst and Young specialising in construction and plantation, KPMG in industrial products, PricewaterhouseCoopers in finance and Arthur Andersen in finance, plantation, technology and trading/services.With regard to audit market share distribution across industries, over time and over a couple of clients’ characteristics (audit fees paid out and revenues earned), it is found that four of the Big 5 audit firms (minus Deloitte Touche) take a lion share.Based on all this, in the Malaysian context in regard to the listed companies segment, the audit market could be categorised as tight oligopoly.…”
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