Services
Audit
- Richard Bennison
- Head of Audit
Audit
Revenue
- KPMG now audits more UK listed companies than any other firm.
- Significant growth in AIM clients with the largest market share amongst ‘Big Four’ firms.
- Increasingly winning back work from key competitors, such as our recent appointment as auditor of DP World.
- Played major roles in global teams, winning audits including Nortel and Sumitomo Corporation.
- Successfully secured audits in merger situations – most recently for the enlarged Alliance Boots.
- Growth in our public sector practice, auditing more universities and large housing associations than any other accountancy firm.
- Our audit practice was awarded Accountancy Age ‘Audit Team of the Year’.
- New Audit Director, Catherine Burnet was named Accountancy Age ‘Accountant of the Year’.
- Named Real FD/CBI Finance Directors Excellence Awards ‘Auditor of the Year’ for the third year running.
- Awarded the first ever ‘Best Auditing Practice’ award, aimed at larger practices, by the Association of International Accountants (AIA).
- Launched a dedicated Audit Response Team, an innovative way of rapidly deploying our people to respond to clients’ needs.
- Expanded mobility programmes, particularly for graduate trainees to gain international experience early in their careers.
- 575 audit graduates recently joined in 2007, over 15% more than in 2006.
- On average our students exceeded the national ACA exam pass rates by over 10%.
