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KPMG New Zealand

About
Our values and culture

We are proud of the culture that exists at KPMG. We put our people first; they are just as important as our clients and we encourage them to be themselves and be the best they can be.

Sponsorships

We're proud to support inspirational business leaders who are helping to transform New Zealand’s economy.
Topics
Integrated Reporting

Integrated Reporting is about better communication between companies and the investment community - “better business reporting”.

Infrastructure

Smarter procurement: keeping you up to speed with developments in national and international infrastructure procurement and partnering.
Industries
Financial Services

We provide focused and practical audit, tax and advisory services to the insurance, retail banking, corporate and investment banking, and investment management sectors.

Agribusiness and Food

We understand the issues faced by agribusiness companies and can tailor solutions to meet these challenges.
Services
Research
Agribusiness Agenda 2013 - State of the nation

Volume one of five in a fresh new format. We distil the thoughts and ideas of our nation’s agribusiness leaders from a series of roundtables across the country.

Rebuiding a 21st century city

We have a unique opportunity to plan and rebuild New Zealand’s second largest city to meet the needs of generations to come. Funding such an undertaking is just one of the challenges before us.
Careers
Experienced professionals

Bring your skills and experience to KPMG, and you’ll be given the opportunity to make your mark from day one. You’ll be involved in challenging, interesting work across our impressive portfolio of clients.

Graduates and interns

Choosing your first firm is a big decision. It’s important to us too. We need to know the fit is right for both of us.
Our partners

It is the nature of business to shorten names and titles to acronyms and to have an ever-increasing number of terms which might puzzle the uninitiated. This page offers some definitions.

EBITDA

Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation

ENR

Energy and natural resources. The ENR sector includes oil and gas, power and utilities, mining and forestry industries.

Enterprise social software (E2.0). The use of an entire suite of emergent technologies - wikis, blogs, tagging, and social networking tools - both inside companies and between companies and the outside world.

ERM

Enterprise risk management

ERMs

Enterprise Risk Management frameworks

ESS

Executive Search & Selection

Estate agent

Professionals dealing with the valuation and sale of property.

ETS

Emissions Trading Scheme.

FAS

Financial Advisory Services

FMCG

Fast moving consumergoods

FRM

Financial Risk Management

FS

Financial Services

FTA

Free Trade Agreement

FX

Foreign Exchange

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