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Advisory Services Publications Catalogue
Agenda: Insights into Growth, Performance, and Governance
Agenda magazine offers fresh thinking on emerging issues related to growth, performance, and governance, and includes stimulating debate from leading figures in global business and academia.
Forensic
At Risk: Business in a World of Litigation, Fraud and Deceit
Authored by KPMG Forensic senior professionals, At Risk is a newsletter designed to help make sense of recent regulatory, legal and economic trends affecting our clients and their external legal counsel.
Cross-Border Investigations: Effectively Meeting the Challenge
In an age when criminals can digitally flash stolen money and intellectual property across the globe in an instant, corporations are often unprepared to investigate cross-border fraud promptly and effectively, according to new research by KPMG International.
Expert Witnesses in Canada: A Survey of Canadian Litigators 2009
This report is based on a survey of over 195 Canadian litigators and relates their experiences around the selection and use of experts, with a focus on accounting experts.
Global Anti-Money Laundering Survey (2007)
KPMG’s 2007 Global Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Survey explores the range of challenges that banking institutions face in complying with global AML requirements.
Profile of a Canadian Fraudster
KPMG Forensic recently published Profile of a Canadian Fraudster, based on a survey of executives from Canada’s largest companies. Designed for business leaders, it provides insight into situations where fraud may have occurred and builds a profile of those most likely to engage in such activity.
Forensic Articles
This series of articles has been written by our professionals and covers a number of topics in our field.
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Performance & Technology
A New Dawn: China's Emerging Role in Global Outsourcing
This paper takes a look at how China is moving up the value chain in developing the necessary infrastructure and outsourcing centers across a number of cities, and how that is going to impact the Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the world.
Adapt to Thrive: Forecasting and Scenario Planning
KPMG article describes how finance leaders can promote wider cultural change by placing forecasting at the centre of strategic decision-making, improving the business' ability to predict and adapt quickly to changing events.
Being the Best: Insights from Leading Finance Functions (2006)
A global survey by KPMG and the Economist Intelligence Unit shows that top performing businesses have top performing finance functions, which have streamlined traditional finance processes and are already playing a valuable strategic role in the business.
Being the Best: Thriving Not Just Surviving (2009)
KPMG research report defines the key characteristics of finance functions at leading organizations and also demonstrates the critical role people play in delivering success.
Brave New World: Financial Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting
KPMG paper offers insights on finance leaders on using a flexible planning process to navigate economic uncertainty, evolution of the planning process, benefits of rolling forecasts, challenges in data governance and maintenance, and managing a global financial planning and analysis function.
Exploring Global Frontiers
KPMG research report identifies 31 cities as viable alternatives to traditional outsourcing destinations. Calgary and Winnipeg claim two of the top ten hotspots in the Americas.
Finance of the Future: Looking Forward to 2020
Report based on KPMG's observations, analysis and practical insights into how the changing business and social environment can impact and redefine the role of the finance function.
Finance Shared Services: Delivering the Promise
KPMG survey shows that top-performing finance Shared Service Centres are distinguished by executive sponsorship, continuous improvement in service quality and high levels of standardization.
Forecasting with Confidence
This research report by KPMG and the Economist Intelligence Unit examines how leading organizations enhance the reliability and confidence of forecasts and, as a result, drive and sustain long-term value.
Managing IT through Market Turbulence
KPMG paper offers five strategies to assist IT executives in meeting short-term business expectations and building a foundation for future performance.
Rethinking Cost Structures
A global survey by KPMG and the Economist Intelligence Unit reveals that today's businesses are under constant pressure to reduce costs yet many find it hard to do so in a sustainable fashion. 9 out of 10 cost reduction programs fail to achieve their targets, and the gains that are achieved appear to be short lived.
The Fine Art of Managing Change
In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Mark Smith, Head of People & Change for KPMG, talks about opportunities and dilemmas as business leaders rethink strategy, organization, people, and leadership in the context of new economic realities.
Thinking Beyond the Quick Fix: A Balanced Approach to Managing IT Costs
KPMG paper outlines tactical and structural cost-optimization techniques to help IT executives respond to current cost pressures and sustain long-term value.
Performance & Technology Articles
Written by KPMG professionals, these articles have appeared in various news, business, and trade media.
Always Maintain Control
In Financial Post article, KPMG's IT Advisory professionals describe how to avoid the pitfalls of "set and forget" and forge effective outsourcing service agreements.
Financial Forecasting Accuracy
CMA magazine article asserts that accuracy of financial forecasting is essential for effective management and stakeholder confidence in any organization.
Looking Out for the Little Guy: Security Risks from Mobile Devices
CIO Canada article describes proven processes for gauging and mitigating the risks posed by PDAs to your company's physical system security, network security and data security.
Making Sense of IT
KPMG International article suggests that IT executives and their C-level counterparts should make greater efforts to understand each other's perspectives if they want to leverage technology as a significant source of competitive advantage.
Not Rocket Science: Managing IT Spend
KPMG International article contends that it is crucial to avoid a narrow, cost-driven approach to managing IT investments.
Survive Your IT Marriage
Co-authored by Yvon Audette, National Co-Leader of IT Advisory Services for KPMG, this article suggests several steps that can help CIOs better manage relationships with outsourcing vendors.
Risk & Compliance
Climate Changes Your Business
Climate Changes Your Business is based on a review of 50 authoritative published studies addressing the business risks and economic impacts of climate change at sector level. This review brings together and analyses the most important research into the effects of climate change on the corporate world, in order to identify the specific risks and economic impacts at sector level that businesses must address.
Enterprise Risk Management
Risk creates opportunity – but how can corporations manage risks to extract business value?
Green IT and the Bottom Line
This KPMG paper presents three case studies showing how the greening of IT operations can support the three crucial aspects of sustainability for an organization—economic, environmental, and social—the so-called "triple bottom line."
Growth and Governance: Managing Opportunities Effectively
This discussion paper argues that risk management has to be a strategic board issue. Boards need to know their appetite for risk, the strategy to satisfy that appetite and the ways that strategy can be put into practice. By making risk management a priority, companies can align growth with governance.
Under the Spotlight: The Transition of Environmental Risk Management
There is a growing consensus that business should bear a greater responsibility towards the environment and pay closer attention to the 'externalities' that its activities create. Non-governmental organizations, customers, governments and investors have all begun to scrutinize the activities of business more carefully and demand a more responsible and sustainable approach.
Transactions & Restructuring
Beating the Bears: Making Global Deals Enhance Value in the New Millennium
Even in a down market, companies that have a sound mergers and acquisitions (M&A) strategy outperform those that act with a less-disciplined approach, according to a global survey released today by KPMG International.
Bridging the Global Infrastructure Gap: Views from the Executive Suite
KPMG International, in cooperation with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), commissioned an international research report into the impact of infrastructure on business. Three hundred and twenty eight C level executives and board members around the world—almost half of whom are CEOs—were surveyed; 22 percent were located in North America. The results provide valuable food for thought and insight for those trying to come to grips with this vital issue.
Capital Markets Update
An occasional newsletter designed to help you make sense of significant changes in debt capital market conditions and manage potential impacts on your business. In each issue, we identify several response options for Canadian businesses coping with tight credit markets.
Cash is back in fashion, but is it here to stay?
KPMG International's second annual cash survey investigates the changes in strategy towards cash management with a marked increase in those implementing working capital improvement programs.
Danger and Opportunity Ahead for Corporate Canada
This piece investigates Canadian insolvency and restructuring activity over the past decade. Based on the identified trends this report provides insights into the current economic downturn.
Divestitures: How to Address the Burden Placed on the Finance Function
KPMG paper describes how developing a comprehensive separation plan that accounts for the finance function's crucial role in the process can lessen the chances of value erosion during a sale.
Global Infrastructure: Trend Monitor - North American Roads Edition
Challenges and opportunities abound for governments and the private sector alike regarding road infrastructure, with potential changes to the current investment model encouraging greater participation by private capital. Global Infrastructure: Trend Monitor – North American Roads Edition offers a 5 year forecast into this subject. The report estimates the size and growth prospects of road investment in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, highlighting specific areas that might warrant closer attention.
The Changing Face of Infrastructure: Frontline Views from Private Sector Infrastructure
KPMG International's global research report highlights the rising imperative for governments and the private sector to work together more effectively to solve infrastructure challenges.
The Changing Face of Infrastructure: Public Sector Perspectives
KPMG International's global research report conveys widespread concern over the lack of stable, sufficient, long-term financial resources for crucial infrastructure investment.
The New Art of the Deal: How Leading Organizations Realize Value from Transactions
As many as 80 percent of the M&A deals struck during the past 10 years never created the value that management or shareholders expected or that the deal seemed to promise.
Three Ds for Improving Your Forecasting Process
Businesses have often struggled to forecast with reliability because they haven't focused sufficiently on forecasting fundamentals-what KPMG calls the three Ds: decisions, data, and discipline.
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