Issues & Insights
The content in this section aims to address many of the complexities that organisations encounter, offering useful research and insights with particular focus on clients' issues.
Here we share our thinking on some of the business issues of the day.
Andrew Cawley, Head of Pensions at KPMG in the UK, runs through the main questions being asked on the government's pension changes, warning that some savers may face a tax charge today for a pension not received for several years.
In the wake of the financial crisis, why is it that some organisations are still attracting new customers and maintaining double-digit growth? The secret to success is good Business Intelligence (BI), writes Rick Hawkins of Performance & Technology, KPMG in the UK, and he believes that there are some basic steps organisations can take to improve their ability to attract new clients.
In June 2010 the IASB and the FASB published a joint exposure draft on revenue recognition, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. This draft could significantly impact the accounting for, and the presentation of, revenue by food, drink and consumer goods (FDCG) companies if implemented in its current form.
Outsourcing vendors can expect to come under increased pressure from their clients after Chief Information Officers (CIOs) worldwide signalled their intention to squeeze more value from outsourcing arrangements.
Ensuring that companies have anti-bribery and corruption (AB&C) compliance programmes in place can assist them in turning this risk into advantage by helping them to build a sustainable business.
In this video presentation, Adam Bates, head of Risk & Compliance, KPMG in the UK, highlights the need for Boards to review the risk landscape in which they operate - in its entirety.
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A collection of light-hearted guides explaining complex business issues - ranging from tax and audits to managing costs and employment - in a simple and humorous way.
The 2010 edition of KPMG International's Taxation of cross-border mergers and acquisitions covers 60 countries and focuses on M&A-type transactions that have become the means by which companies of all kinds - across all industries and regions - are restructuring and generally adapting to the new, post-crisis environment.
Agenda magazine debates the kind of issues CFOs and senior executives are grappling with. It draws on the experience of leading academics and business experts to challenge conventional thinking and suggest ways forward.
- Living Wills
- Are You Looking at Your Entire Risk Landscape?
- Emergency Budget 2010: Impact on the Banking sector
- Big Blue Bike Ride
- CBI's Insights on Risk and the Economic Landscape
- The Changing Role of the Auditor
- KPMG Media and Entertainment Barometer
- The Risk Summit, New Perspectives on Decision Making
- Pre-Budget Report 2009 - a Balancing Act?
- KPMG 2009 Global Construction Survey