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Accountant shortage prompts US plan for quicker path to qualification

Financial Times: Pressure to cut educational requirement has grown as new recruits dry up.

Biggest foreign investment deals of 2023

Which countries are most active, what sectors are they buying in and what prices are paid?

Our climate and nature response: the imperative and opportunity

Our relationship with nature is not ‘just another corporate sustainability issue’.

KPMG baffled by National’s pledge to ditch financial services conduct law

The law is meant to regulate banks and insurers over how they treat customers.

Covid killed the clinic: IRD has liquidators appointed to medical centre

Statement of assets listed those as being negative, the company owing about $313,000.

Banks’ preparations for tough times could dampen profits

KPMG sees banks continuing to make provisions for higher bad debts.

Hello Foods receivership: Creditors claim $20m, liquidators called in

"We lost a lot of money."

Wellington bar The George insolvent: landlord changed locks, $800,000+ owed

Landlord changed locks after bar failed to pay rent, and IRD makes move.

Banks made record $7b last year - that's up by a billion dollars

The figures are bound to stoke calls for a banking inquiry.

KPMG: Cyber security moving faster in public sector

The public sector is now leading the way in New Zealand cyber security - and private sector companies could learn some lessons, says cyber security expert Philip Whitmore.

KPMG: Conventions centres $940m investment in new visitors

New Zealand's efforts to gain a bigger slice of the global, multi-billion-dollar conventions industry will need expert marketing and relationship-building to succeed.

KPMG: Good corporate conduct brings big benefits

Companies which address the burgeoning threat of conduct risk stand to be winners in the marketplace, according to a top financial consultancy firm.

KPMG: Peer-to-peer lending yet to face real test

The newly launched peer-to-peer (P2P) lenders may have to prove they can endure an economic downturn and become more transparent before becoming a major force in the personal/consumer loan markets.

KPMG: Financial advisers still have trust issues

New Zealanders need advice from financial advisers to improve complex investment and retirement outcomes but face an enormous obstacle - a lack of trust, says KPMG's Head of Financial Services, John Kensington.

KPMG: Average Kiwi 'financially illiterate'