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Emerging Technology in the Accounting Industry: Instrument not Obstacle

Tom Spencer

This can be seen from their graduate recruitment process. Recruitment screening assessments increasingly ask how candidates, as newly appointed auditors, would use emerging technologies. Most financial statements and documents are electronic in nature or start out as a physical document that ends up being scanned into a computer.

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Case Study: An Office Romance Gone Wrong

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Claudia was the newest recruit to the sales team—young, eager, pretty. But that position would be a lateral move, with less autonomy and financial upside.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business

We thus wanted to figure out a way to help executives quantify the financial benefits of reducing their firm’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Financial Institutions. Mir Aamir - Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Coupons.com. Hartwig Grewener - Chief Financial Officer, Sonova Holding AG. KEARNEY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

.” In the years that followed, the company realized that solving any question for any company for any industry was a difficult first step for the small firm, so the firm started specializing in the financial services industry in 1983. Van Hoose), and a Chief Financial Officer (Michael T. Musslewhite), a President (David L.

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Consulting Applications – Preparation is key to success

Tom Spencer

Researching early is key so that you are well informed before the application windows open, especially as many firms recruit on a rolling basis. Staying up to date with current events is crucial to acing your interviews, especially for case studies in which you may need to consider external factors affecting the problem.

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London School of Economics Postgrad Talks About Life At Deloitte

Management Consulted

I got a lot of very good experience while I was there, learning market research, analysis, DCF calculations, financial valuations, etc. The atmosphere itself, and the interview itself was very, very different in the fact that the big four in the UK in comparison to the MBB over here really focus a lot less on the case study.

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