You might not be able to nimbly pluck their heartstrings but apparently you can cattle-herd them into a predetermined survey conclusion with the right set of carefully crafted questions and answers.
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Maybe Deloitte Should Give Up Doing Business in Italy
- Caleb Newquist
- March 30, 2010
Deloitte has managed to get itself into more trouble in Italy. After settling the lawsuit with freakishly long-life milk company Parmalat, the firm may be facing charges of “market manipulation, false accounting and obstruction of justice, as well as fraud,” according to Bloomberg.
In this particular Italian job, Deloitte is lumped in with a couple of Deutsche Bank employees, who were allegedly complicit in losses at Banca Italease SpA, “Milan prosecutors are probing Italease after potential losses accumulated by clients on interest-rate swaps swelled in 2007 and the bank’s unprofitable positions ballooned. The Bank of Italy fired the company’s board in July 2007 for lack of internal controls.”
While zee Germans are standing behind their two boys, Francesco Giuliani and Dario Schiraldi, Deloitte didn’t comment for the article but the firm is certainly familiar with the tenacity of the Italians are not be trifled with. The Parmalat case dragged on for over six years before investors finally received a settlement from the firm so you can expect that the screwed investors of Italease will be equally as determined.
Deutsche Bank Employees, Deloitte Said to Face Charges in Milan [Bloomberg BusinessWeek]
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Deloitte Canada Fined $350,000 By the PCAOB For Fudging Audit Workpapers
- Jason Bramwell
- October 18, 2021
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Joe Echevarria Was a Hipster Before It Was Cool
- Caleb Newquist
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Does everyone remember Barry Salzberg's article in Forbes that finally shed light on the elusive wants and needs of the Gen Y digital ninjas? I know everyone was probably thrilled to finally understand what it is Millennials want since we've all been sitting here scratching our balding gray heads trying to figure it out.
Anyone with half a brain knew Barry was obviously pandering but thanks to one commenter, we may have a bit more insight into why Deloitte's survey showed its young staff care about silly things like social justice and mobile technology. While we can't confirm this statement for obvious reasons, the survey results were so far-fetched and ridiculous that I can only assume everything written below is true:
Well well, you don't say! A 42-year-old "accidentally" gets a copy of the survey and finds the possible answers to be carefully manufactured and guided so that no one could actually say they are driven more by money than the fallacy of business changing the world? As bizarre as it sounds, anyone who read Barry's fluff piece in Forbes can see why it's completely believable.
The ironic part here is that Barry himself recognized that Millennials aren't easily bullshitted (apparently neither are their Gen X predecessors):