Research & Studies

Third year in a row that business students rank KPMG #2 in Universum’s ‘World’s Most Attractive Employer’ survey.

KPMG survey on shopping habits in the Czech Republic shows that Czechs do not trust organic food and find it expensive.

According to a KPMG survey, tourism generates CZK 92 billion in budget revenue.

In its current insight into lost and stolen information in 2009, KPMG looks at the ways data can leak, using the latest research into worldwide reports of data loss incidents.

An urgent need for more revenue is pushing many governments into active moves to increase the tax taken from indirect taxes, and a worldwide broadening of the tax base for corporate income taxes, KPMG International’s latest annual survey of tax rates affecting business has found.

Can restructuring help companies to regain consumer confidence? How does the amendment to the VAT Act affect the private use of company cars? And why does it pay to invest in photovoltaics today? Find the answers to these and many more questions in the new issue of Horizons.

The results of a recent survey of 315 industry executives from 49 countries conducted in March and April 2009 by KPMG International and the Economist Intelligence Unit show that more than half of its respondents expect an improvement in organic growth (55 percent) and expect an improvement in growth by acquisition or take-over (53 percent) during the next 12 months. Respondents are also positive about their business prospects as they relate to premium volume (say 53 percent), expense ratio (say 53 percent) and capital reserves (say 47 percent). They are least positive about their share price, with only 40 percent of respondents expecting to see an improvement in this area.

The automotive industry today is marked by deep and widespread uncertainty. As global stock markets plunge and consumer confidence dips to historic lows, light vehicle sales in almost all regions continue to slide, says the recently published white paper A rough road: The effects of today´s financial crisis on the global automotive industry published by KPMG International.

Frontiers in Finance is KPMG's Financial Services global industry magazine. It assembles the thinking of our professionals around the globe, providing you with informed perspectives on recent and current issues. In doing so it is designed to stimulate your thinking about the best way forward by highlighting practical issues at both the strategic and tactical levels.