Every one's a winner! By Nigel Harris

Posted by AccountingWEB PM | on Sun, 29/07/2007 - 20:16 5327 2 comments

Driving into Gatwick airport the other day I couldn’t help seeing the huge “KPMG Auditor of the Year” banners across the road. “Says who?”, I wondered, “have they won some sort of award?” Or does it mean that they audit the year itself? Maybe they check that we’re not short changed and that the year does indeed have 365 days of 24 hours each. But if so, to whom do they report? Who are the management and stakeholders of “the year”?

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PR

dahowlett | Sun, 29/07/2007 - 23:48 | Permalink

Nigel - you're clearly immune from the Mendelsonesque PR tactics applied by the Big 3/4. That KPMG pic is on Liverpool Street Station as well - I have a pic of it on my site.

Pity they don't put as much energy into sorting out their antiquated audit techniques that seem to give rise to the most fundamental of errors that any Year 1 student should easily find.

is there a difference between

carnmores | Fri, 03/08/2007 - 16:46 | Permalink

meddlesome and mandelsome