When accounting goes unaccounted for
That’s it. That’s the story.
Published today in India’s business paper The Economic Times:
Deloitte plans to have around 30% of its workforce operating from India within the next four years, with an estimated total employee count ranging from 150,000 to 160,000, as the country figures prominently in the firm’s global growth plans, according to Romal Shetty, CEO, Deloitte South Asia.
Discuss.
In blatant-misuse-of-the-corporate-credit-card news, a former Deloitte “trainee/student” (let’s assume an intern, shall we?) has admitted to racking up over £8,800 in gambling debt on his Deloitte issued credit card.
Umar Qureshi, using his Deloitte laptop no less, managed to lose the money in just a couple of months, October and November of 2008. At that point, Qureshi, rather than admit to being a horrendous gambler, lied about the charges, telling Deloitte that they were fraudulent. Depending on when this particular lie took place, he only managed to keep a straight face, at the most, for two months, as Deloitte terminated his contract in January of ’09.
Which is understandable. Gambling can be nerve-racking on its own but losing your ass on the Corporate Card has got to be a real pant-crapper. This makes for the second Big 4 degenerate loser to make headlines this year in the UK. Back in February, a ex-KPMGer really was rolling, slamming over £25,000 on his expense report.
Accountancy Age reports that the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (“ICAEW”), “ordered that the defendant cease to be a provisional member and be ineligible for re-registration for six months, and that he be severely reprimanded.” As we mentioned in the KPMG case, we’re not sure what a “reprimand” entails but a weeklong diversity training with Barry Salzberg could be a possibility.
Luckily, for Qureshi a relative was kind enough to pay the debt owed to Deloitte, who must have really wanted the money back. It’s just principle.
Former Deloitte student admits £8k bill from online gambling [Accountancy Age]
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Dey took er jobs! But for real, good freakin luck, Gen Z accountants, Boomers are building the ship to wreck.
Deloitte is on the way to becoming Infosys
I worked at Big4 and the quality of work from South Asia is crap. Besides the language barrier, they don’t care because they’re paid crap salaries.
Interesting how none of the commenters nor the author of this post is asking whether this is Deloitte India growing significantly due to in-country growth ops and its headcount is poised to grow to the levels projected by the CEO of Deloitte South Asia, or if the headcount growth is coming from Deloitte US India, which is the offshore arm of the US firm. It’s one thing if it’s growth of client-facing roles within the Deloitte India firm, it’s quite a bit different if the growth is coming from the backoffice functions of Deloitte USI.
It’s offshoring.
And how many India partners will there be? Can anyone say Zero/Notta/None?
>>Deloitte plans to have around 30% of its workforce operating from India within the next four years, with an estimated total employee count ranging from 150,000 to 160,000, as the country figures prominently in the firm’s global growth plans, according to Romal Shetty, CEO, Deloitte South Asia.<<
This isn’t new. A number of the large tech companies are in the process of getting their teams to determine how much of their workforce can be moved abroad. Taking away jobs from Americans because the labor in other countries is “cheaper” just to save money, offer less benefits, and continue growing…