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Just signed the outside employment form in KPMG onboarding system. I actually wanted to start dabbling in creative writing as a potentially monetizable hobby, but I'm guessing this may pose issues.
Definitely interested in the "exception from this policy may be requested if provision of non-professional services doesn't interfere with one's duties of causes conflict of interest" clause, though. Has anyone been able to get one of those before?
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Honestly, it doesn’t change much, if a team is doing an effective quarterly review, it should only be about between 100 and 200 hours. And the bulk of those hours could be offshore. Additionally, as somebody that worked on public companies for way too long, the first quarter review as is a pain in the ass because it comes right after finishing up your end, especially if you have a company that files late for any reason. The time during the third quarter review could be more effectively spent working on their own testing.
During the quarter at the partner and director level too much time is spent meeting with clients, audit committees, preparing for audit committee meeting. Little time spent actually supervising review in the work of the staff. I was working with a very large engagement team, helping them try to figure out how to reduce quarterly hours and part of the reason they couldn’t is that every meeting with senior levels at the client had the engagement leader, the auxiliary partner, the tax partner, the tax director, the engagement director attending the meetings, plus some note takers.
Agree. Quarters are low revenue/margin work. Plus I bet most companies keep quarterly reporting.