Brief Organizational Behavior Analysis of Kpmg
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I. Introduction
In 2010, I got involved in an internship program offered by KPMG Shanghai. During the two-month program, I took part in a real audit project with a group of auditors after a one-week intensive training. This was the first time for me to work in an international company, where I got familiar with the working environment and culture of a leading firm. I learned a lot through the experience.
KPMG is one of the four largest international accountancy and professional services companies, along with PwC, Deloitte and Ernst & Young. First got its name after a merger of two accounting firms in 1987, KPMG then expanded its business to over 150 countries in the world with more than 138,000 employees. KPMG International Cooperative registered in the Switzerland, including different national KPMG firms as it members, while each national KPMG firm is an independent legal entity in its own country.
KPMG China has offices in Beijing, Shanghai and other 11 cities with over 9000 employees. As other offices, KPMG Shanghai office provides professional services of audit, tax and advisory for customers in various fields, including financial services, private equity, industrial markets, government and so on. During my internship, I was in an audit group. Our group’s job at that moment was to do an external mid-term audit for a real-estate company, namely to verify the company’s financial records and to give an expert opinion of its financial condition. It means that we have to study sources provided by the company to find out whether its records present its true financial situation. Most of time, we worked in our customer’s offices to check the company’s daily records of banks, creditors, brokers, etc., under the special KPMG Audit Methodology. After collecting the original data, we continued our work in our own office to analyze and prepare the final report. Another part of my job was to
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I. Introduction
In 2010, I got involved in an internship program offered by KPMG Shanghai. During the two-month program, I took part in a real audit project with a group of auditors after a one-week intensive training. This was the first time for me to work in an international company, where I got familiar with the working environment and culture of a leading firm. I learned a lot through the experience.
KPMG is one of the four largest international accountancy and professional services companies, along with PwC, Deloitte and Ernst & Young. First got its name after a merger of two accounting firms in 1987, KPMG then expanded its business to over 150 countries in the world with more than 138,000 employees. KPMG International Cooperative registered in the Switzerland, including different national KPMG firms as it members, while each national KPMG firm is an independent legal entity in its own country.
KPMG China has offices in Beijing, Shanghai and other 11 cities with over 9000 employees. As other offices, KPMG Shanghai office provides professional services of audit, tax and advisory for customers in various fields, including financial services, private equity, industrial markets, government and so on. During my internship, I was in an audit group. Our group’s job at that moment was to do an external mid-term audit for a real-estate company, namely to verify the company’s financial records and to give an expert opinion of its financial condition. It means that we have to study sources provided by the company to find out whether its records present its true financial situation. Most of time, we worked in our customer’s offices to check the company’s daily records of banks, creditors, brokers, etc., under the special KPMG Audit Methodology. After collecting the original data, we continued our work in our own office to analyze and prepare the final report. Another part of my job was to