Crikey’s tipsters today send in word on the street about Anna Bligh’s unfortunate school evacuation moment, KPMG’s nuclear-powered report and pay cuts in the defence forces.
KPMG
Tips and rumours: Pay cuts in the Army Reserve?
Macquarie’s "fair and reasonable" millions anything but
KPMG’s approval of Macquarie Airports’ $345 million bounty is kind of like saying a thief who steals your wallet was being fair and reasonable because they didn’t shoot you afterwards.
Westpoint paper trail snares KPMG
Major accounting firm KPMG has received a rare rebuke from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, with three partners agreeing to be banned from auditing companies.
SackWatch 8: we track the jobs carnage
Australia’s looming unemployment crisis continues to gather momentum with economists scrambling to re-adjust their jobless forecasts.
Tips and rumours: Easter bunnyload of hot tips
A bucketload of anonymous tips sent to Crikey. Has KPMG sacked 50 people in Perth? And is The Gruen Transfer offending its audience?
SackWatch: KPMG … CSR … Virgin Blue … Tanner
Crikey’s SackWatch is now up to its fourth installment with another huge spate of lay-offs announced in the last week, writes Andrew Crook.
Briefly Business: KPMG, ABC, LBO’s & Texas Pacific
KPMG rep takes another hit … ABC Learning still talking the talk … Texas pacific not playing by the rules …
Tips and rumours
In regards to the article “Drug industry reveals its daily orgy of wining and dining”, I’m not sure if you realise or not but this is not confined to the pharmaceutical market, the device companies do this too, the orthopedics market is the worst with doctors regularly demanding overseas airfares and holidays for their entire […]
US Justice Department adds to KPMG woes
The accuracy of KPMG’s Australian auditors has been placed under the spotlight in recent months but that is far less concerning for firm than the accusations it is facing over its auditing of US sub-prime lender, New Century Financial, writes Adam Schwab.
Getting to the bottom of KPMG’s involvement in MFS disaster
The shambles at MFS continue with MFS Investment Management sending a letter to unit-holders in the company’s Premium Income Fund informing them that they will no longer receive interest payments, writes Adam Schwab.
Leaked KPMG report: ABC efficient but underfunded
It arrived in the proverbial plain brown wrapper – confirmation that the Federal Government is starving the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Crikey has received a copy of an ABC Board briefing on the crucial KPMG review of the ABC’s funding.
