December 2024
Trophies and sequins as Australia’s business leaders gonged
A $70,000 Rolex and a sequined jacket show life is sweet for the victors, though the path isn’t always smooth.
November 2024
Insiders and long-shots: Rear Window at the 2024 Melbourne Cup
Knight’s Choice made a (very small) number of punters very wealthy, taking home the Melbourne Cup on slim expectations.
October 2024
This is the kind of consulting work KPMG Australia will send offshore
The firm’s consulting arm plans to send 44,000 hours of work to employees based overseas this financial year as part of a push to change the way KPMG operates.
September 2024
The most powerful people in the consulting sector in 2024
As the fallout from the PwC scandal still looms large, smaller operations are moving in on the big four’s turf.
Paul Howes – the offshoring double agent
The former AWU chief has been tasked with offshoring work in his new corporate life.
Revealed: The sales targets KPMG Australia sets its consultants
Advisers in its consulting division will be forced to put the firm’s interests before their own, as part of a direction to sell profit-generating work.
June 2024
From union boss to KPMG chief: ‘Unlearning’ key to Paul Howes’ success
The senior KPMG partner is as surprised as anyone else that he will chalk up 10 years at the firm next month.
KPMG launches radical overhaul, cuts 200 senior jobs
KPMG Australia will overhaul its consulting business to focus on tech-related advisory and software installation as part of an $80 million cost-cutting exercise that will include cutting about 200 roles at the firm.
March 2024
Untangling KPMG’s excruciating closeness to Westpac
Westpac is also KPMG’s banker, and a major consulting client of the big four firm. Auditors are meant to be independent, and so this just won’t do.
January 2024
Power players rally for Sinner comeback
No prestige social event is complete without an iconic couple making a high-profile public showing.
May 2023
AWU leader and Labor shining light to pursue private sector career
Treasurer Jim Chalmers praised AWU secretary Daniel Walton as “one of the really enlightened leaders in our broader Australian community” and said he wished he had not quit.
April 2022
KPMG hosts parliamentary tormentor Daniel Mookhey
Like the Daniel of Jewish antiquity, Mookhey walked straight into the lion’s den. Or to KPMG’s swanky Barangaroo offices at least.
March 2022
Inside the Financial Review’s 70th anniversary gala
Captains of industry mixed with masters of the capital markets who bumped shoulders with prime ministers, treasurers and regulators, each as instantly recognisable as the next.
November 2021
Lunch watch: Rockpool draws mercantile crowd
The power lunch hour at Sydney’s Rockpool Bar & Grill starts earlier each week.
October 2021
May 2021
The end of the COVID-19 commission
The Morrison government’s idea was to ask a disparate bunch of individuals from the private sector to give it some direct advice on managing COVID-19. How did it work out?
March 2021
Masters of the Universe risk life and limb for charity
Some major names in Sydney banking and commerce began doing themselves untold physical damage on Thursday evening in The Smith Family Challenge.
September 2020
Australia’s five most powerful consultants in 2020
Major firms – including the big four – had been posting strong year-on-year growth amid rising demand. Then the pandemic hit, hard and fast.
July 2020
BCA calls for 20pc investment allowance
A 20 per cent investment allowance, fast-tracked income tax cuts and increased unemployment benefits are on the BCA wishlist.
June 2020
'Faceless men' say they'd do it again in a heartbeat
Ten years on and key players on both sides of coup against Kevin Rudd have not changed their views.