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• New Jersey Executives Bullish on State Economy and Expect Strong Business Performance Ahead, KPMG Survey Finds

  - 2007-05-03

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• Los Angeles Executives Bullish On Their Companies' Performance and Local Economy, KPMG Survey Finds

  - 2007-04-30

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• Chicago Executives See Company Performance, Overall Local Economy Improving in Year Ahead, KPMG Survey Finds

  - 2007-04-23

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• Driving Performance Improvements From Sarbanes Oxley Compliance

  BNET - 2005-05-04

  Compliance with Sarbanes Oxley should bring a portfolio view of controls within a business, giving greater knowledge of how controls are managed, whoÆs responsible, how they interface and impact on performance. This article puts forward that this can be an opportunity to re-evaluate how these controls can be made more...

  Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Performance, Control, KPMG International, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Performance Management, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Workforce Management

• Driving Performance Improvements From Sarbanes Oxley Principles for Non SEC Listed Companies

  BNET - 2005-01-04

  This paper takes a look at how Sarbanes Oxley has put internal controls in the spotlight and non SEC listed organizations are increasingly looking to implement a Sarbanes Oxley type programme. Application of the principles of Sarbanes Oxley can be a springboard for improvements in controls, processes and business performance,...

  Tags: Business Performance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Performance, SEC, KPMG International, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

• Briefs; UN pushes for set of global socially responsible investment guidelines.(United Nations, Caterpillar Belgium S.A., J.P. Morgan Investor Services, Portfolio Partners Ltd.)

  - 2004-07-26

  LONDON - The United Nations Environment Program, Nairobi, announced it would create a global set of socially responsible investment guidelines by September 2005. The $26.4 billion United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, New York, will follow the gui LONDON - The United Nations Environment Program, Nairobi,...

  Tags: news release, performance measurement, KPMG International, asset, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., performance, Watson Wyatt

• Raising the Performance Bar: Challenges Facing Global Investment Management in the 2000s

  BNET - 2004-07-01

  Only a minority of investment managers around the world had expected the recent bear market to prevail beyond 2002. As a result, substantive corrective actions to arrest a headlong decline in profitability were deemed unnecessary by many. This report aims to identify the nature and scale of these changes, the...

  Tags: Performance, KPMG International, Strategy, Management

• Nih Awards Kpmg Consulting For Outstanding Performance Under Cio-Sp2 Contract

  - 2002-04-29

  KPMG Consulting, Inc. (Nasdaq: KCIN), one of the world's largest consulting and business systems integration firms, has received an award from the National Institutes of Health NIH for Outstanding Performance under the Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners II contract, known as CIO-SP2. In its first year as a prime...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, KPMG International, MARKETING, performance, SOFTWARE, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• Achieving Measurable Performance Improvement in a Changing World: The Search for New Insights

  BNET - 2001-12-06

  This white paper puts forward a renewed call to view performance measurement as a strategic activity - critical to achieving results, not merely measuring them. This white paper encourages the integration of strategy, execution, and measurement as an efficient, dependable way to help leaders deliver in a changing, slower-growth world.

  Tags: Performance, KPMG International, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

• Redefining Corporate Success - to include nonfinancial areas - Brief Article

  - 2001-02-01

  MORE AND MORE CORporarions are beginning to acknowledge the link between nonfinancial areas and the bottom line. According to "Beyond the Numbers," a white paper recently released by KPMG, corporate stakeholders, customers, and workers are pushing a trend toward nonfinancial performance reporting, and their concerns about environmental management, worker relations,...

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