KPMG hit with £250m lawsuit over botched audits of collapsed construction giant Carillion By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 19 May 2021 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 19 May 2021 KPMG faces a £250million lawsuit over its botched audits of collapsed construction giant Carillion. The Big Four accountant gave the firm a … Read more
KPMG to SPLIT the roles of boss who was forced to quit over video telling well-paid ‘woke’ staff they are ‘lucky’ and should stop moaning during pandemic Bill Michael stepped down after telling staff to ‘stop moaning,’ during pandemic Auditing giant KPMG says it was splitting the roles of chair and chief executive Mr Michael … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: KPMG boss had to go – if you take job of senior partner at Big Four audit firm, you sign up to be a champion of diversity The views Bill Michael expressed are incompatible with leading a top accountancy firm For a multi-millionaire chief to tell his staff to ‘stop moaning’ about coronavirus … Read more
The boss of KPMG who told his well-paid staff to ‘stop moaning’ about cuts to their bonuses – and that unconscious bias is ‘complete c**p’ – has resigned. Bill Michael will leave the top City firm at the end of the month following the uproar sparked by his comments on a Zoom call on Monday. … Read more
The KPMG boss forced out by ‘woke’ staff upset by his straight-talking online seminar is a self-made ‘red-blooded’ Australian who was branded the ‘Donald Trump’ candidate before getting the £1.7million-a-year top job, MailOnline can reveal today. Melbourne-born Bill Michael, 52, told consultants asking him about pay, pension and bonus cuts to cease ‘playing the role of … Read more
The KPMG boss forced out by ‘woke’ staff upset by his straight-talking online seminar is a self-made ‘red-blooded’ Australian who was branded the ‘Donald Trump’ candidate before getting the £1.7million-a-year top job, MailOnline can reveal today. Melbourne-born Bill Michael, 52, told consultants asking him about pay, pension and bonus cuts to cease ‘playing the role of … Read more
The moment KPMG’s UK chair told ‘woke’ staff that ‘unconscious bias is complete c**p’ can be exclusively revealed by MailOnline. A recording of the Zoom meeting shows Bill Michael telling employees at the top City firm they are in ‘a very lucky sector’. He was speaking to 1,500 highly-paid consultants who have been working from … Read more
Accounting giant KPMG’s £1.7million-a-year chairman steps aside ‘after telling staff to stop moaning about Covid’ By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 10 February 2021 | Updated: 23:47 GMT, 10 February 2021 The UK chairman of accounting giant KPMG dramatically stepped aside last night as a probe was launched into his incendiary … Read more
KPMG accountants who have been WFH amid crisis are told to ‘stop moaning’ and ‘playing victims’ by chairman as they raise concerns over pay and pensions Bill Michael told 1,500 consultants on the meeting to quit ‘playing the victim’ Employees at the Big Four accountancy firm had registered concerns over pay Mr Michael, 52, who … Read more
KPMG bosses forced to take an 11% cut as pandemic squeezes profits but average pay is still £572,000 By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 3 February 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 3 February 2021 KPMG’S 582 partners in the UK were forced to take an 11 per cent pandemic pay cut … Read more