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.
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To be fair, Thomas Flanagan — having been a partner at Deloitte for 30 years — probably didn’t remember the day that his auditing professor covered independence. If you figure that Tom was in college in the late 1960s, it’s surprising that he remembers anything.
Also, as the vice chairman of the firm, his job was to remind people of their duty to remain independent of the firm’s audit clients. He didn’t actually have to be independent himself. What good is insider information if you’re not going to use it, amiright?
Deloitte had sued Flanagan in Delaware Chancery Court in October 2008 for breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and breach of contract, saying the 30-year partner who had risen to vice chairman of the firm had secretly hidden trades in shares of Deloitte’s audit clients and lied about it to the firm.
“Because an auditor sells, at base, its independence and integrity, the firm relies heavily on the purported honesty and independence of its professionals,” Vice Chancellor John Noble, of the Delaware Court of Chancery, wrote in his opinion.
Deloitte said in its complaint that starting as early as 2005, Flanagan had made more than 300 trades in shares of Deloitte’s audit clients, including several clients for which he was Deloitte’s advisory partner.Meanwhile, Flanagan specifically told the firm he was not trading in client stocks, which are restricted under the firm’s independence policies, according to the complaint.
Tom must have been a choir boy prior to getting the Vice Chair gig. How else could he have gotten to be such a bigwig if he wasn’t a poster child for integrity? Was he that good of a liar?
Never mind that for a sec. What’s really curious is why the hell a Vice Chairman needed the extra scratch. A comic book collection that would rival Nic Cage’s? Financing a business opportunity? A spendy wife/mistress/pool boy? If you’ve got any thoughts, discuss below and if this story doesn’t clear things up on independence, start crack the auditing textbooks.
Deloitte wins insider trading suit vs. ex-executive [Reuters]
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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…