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The benefit allowed the accountancy firm's staff to finish work early on Fridays during the summer months.

Australia's central bank and one of the country's biggest pension funds are distancing themselves from KPMG Australia amid whistleblower misconduct allegations.

Postponing tax integration leads to misaligned systems, expensive retrofitting projects, and a failure to optimize cash flow and reduce enterprise risk.

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The alliance with Anthropic will embed Claude Cowork into KPMG's global client delivery platform, beginning with tax and legal clients.

Big Four firm KPMG signed 17 new SEC audit engagements, followed closely by Deloitte, CBIZ and Carr Riggs & Ingram.

KPMG is shutting down its audit practice for the federal government after losing a Pentagon contract, and laying off 4% of its U.S. advisory practice.

Big Four firm KPMG is eliminating approximately 100 partners in its U.S. audit and assurance practice, after not enough of them accepted an early retirement program.

Ignite Financial Close Companion, developed in cooperation with Google and HR platform Workday, assists with the month-end closing process.

Ideagen Audit Analytics' annual report on the audit landscape shows the market share landscape remaining much the same.

Canada's top securities regulator alleged that KPMG failed to properly value the loans held within funds, harming investors.

The proposed cuts impact roughly 6% of the audit division's 7,100 employees. 

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KPMG International elected Gary Wingrove as its next global chairman and CEO, succeeding Bill Thomas in a four-year term, effective Oct. 1, 2026.

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Big Four KPMG announced that the employees and founders of AI development platform PrivateBlok will be joining the firm to further scale its AI capacities.

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