KPMG is a company in fact a professional service type company. And it is one of the Big 4 Auditors along with following –

• Deloitte
• Ernst & Young
• Price water house Cooper

This is seated in Amsterdem, Netherlands, and  this company employs 189,000 people. Apart from this this has three lines of services, namely: Financial Audit , tax, as well as Advisory. Also another thing here is that its tax and advisory services are further divided into various service groups.

Well what actually is KPMG is ? Well let’s come to the topic. In fact the very name “KPMG” stands for “Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler.” This was chosen when KMG (Klynveld Main Goerdeler) merged with Peat Marwick. There are many interesting things about KPMG. This will be discussed here.

Let me discuss all the things that are really meant for the term and the topic that is mentioned here i.e KPMG in that of the other word.

What actually the term KPMG refers to.

The name here that is KPMG stands for Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler. As earlier I have mentioned that KPMG is one of the professional service company and the point is that there are having three lines of services. And the this is a type of Swiss Cooperative type industry. And this was founded in the year of 1987. The founders include John Moaxham, Henry Grace, James Grace, so on and so forth.

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Earlier that is in the above paragraph I have mentioned that the headquarter was founded in the Amstelveen which is in Netherlands. One of the most important thing here is that the services provided by the very company that is KPMG is of worldwide. In other words they are providing the services across the whole world.

Now let me discuss some of the historic facts about the KMPG in the following coming section. So dear just go through the things that are mentioned there.

History of KPMG

Well dear here comes the historic facts about the very professional company that is KPMG here. For the very kind information it is said that this very organization is having spanned three centuries. This is really one of the astonishing thing dear. Well in the year 1818 John Moaxham  in fact opened a company. And that very company that was opened by John was established  in Bristol. Later on James Grace and James Grace Jr. bought John Moaxham & Co. and renamed that very thing as that of the James Grace & Son in the year of 1857.

Also in 1861 Henry Grace joined James Jr. and the company was renamed James & Henry Grace. Also there is another side as well apart from this very thing as well. In the year around of 1913 approx Frank Wilber Main founded Main and Co. and this was founded in the place named as Pittsburgh. Also later on in the ear 1920 phillip and Gerald became partners in that of very James and Henry Grace and thus dear it was renamed to Grace, Darbyshire and Todd. 

These are some of the historic facts about the professional industry that is KPMG here. Well let me come on the another section where I am going to tell you about another things related to KPMG.

Some More about KPMG

Well dear readers here once I am here to share with you some of the things about KPMG .

In the year of 2001 this KPMG actually divested its U.S consulting firm through an initial public offering of KPMG Consulting Inc and that very thing is now came to be known as Bearing Point, Inc. Also another thing here I want to share is that in early 2009, Bearing Point filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Also in 2003 KPMG divested itself of its legal arm, klegal.

Now let me discuss with you the services of the KPMG.

Services by KPMG

Here is another one and that is regarding the services. Actually the thing is that the professional company that is none other than that of the very KPMG is categorized into three services lines. Let me share with you these services lines. The three services lines are given below-

1. The first one include here audit.
2. On the another hand services lines in which KPMG is organized includes Advisory.
3. Last but not the least it is the field of tax.

These are the three services lines in which KPMG have been organized.

About KPMG Staff

As you dear very well know that KPMG is one the well known professional services company and is one of the renowned one for their awesomeness in the field of the services providing. Let me here firstly remind you that in the above section I have discussed about the services line as well as the history regarding the very professional services company that is KPMG.

So dear if you want to know about the history or about the services line then you can go to the previous section. Now let me here come on the point and in this section I am going to discuss with you about the staff related things of KPMG.

Some of the Points About Staff

Let me here share with you some of the following listed points-

• One of the thing here includes that the US branch of KPMG was rated as the top company in the whole indutry. And more important thing was that the same branch was declared as one of the top 10 companies for working mothers.
• Apart from being one of the topper one there is another thing and that is KPMG was the preferred employer among the big 4 accounting firms according to CollegeGrad.com.
• Well dear readers in the year 2012 according to one of the report the very professional service company that is KPMG here has about 11,000 staff in the United Kingdom. Apart from the staffs in the UK there were a lot in the other areas as well. Let me here mention this thing.
• Actually there has been about 9,000 staff in mainland China as well as Hong Kong. This is really amazing guys and girls about this professional service company.
• Also it was of the opinion that the strength in China will overtake the strength of staffs in the United Kingdom by the end of 2013.
• These were some 0f the things about KPMG.

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