Profile – KPMG LLP
KPMG LLP is the audit, tax and advisory firm that has maintained a continuous commitment throughout its history to providing leadership, integrity and quality. The Big Four firm with the strongest growth record over the past decade, KPMG turns knowledge into value for the benefit of its clients, people, communities and the capital markets. Its professionals work together to provide clients access to global support, industry insights, and a multidisciplinary range of services

Audit
KPMG shares our clients’ objectives of credibility and transparency in financial reporting.  Each of our professionals is committed to delivering quality, rigorous independent audits of client financial statements.  KPMG’s Audit Methodology (KAM) is designed to meet applicable national and international standards and:

• Focuses on the financial statement, emphasizing the critical nature of substantive procedures as well as effective risk assessment and control testing activities
• Facilitates a strong industry focus to the audit, so that our engagement team really understands our clients’ business
• Uses a multidisciplinary approach with relevant KMPG specialists as part of the engagement team
• Provides  a broad-ranging set of audit procedures relating to our audit of internal control over financial reporting with the financial statement audit
• Provides a basis for a consistent audit approach everywhere KPMG firms do business, and reinforces global continuity and coordination

Tax
Over the past few years, sweeping legislative and regulatory changes have made doing business extraordinarily complex.  One of the major challenges resulting from these changes is managing tax risk; and corporate tax directors are often facing this issue with smaller staffs, reduced budgets and rapidly shifting needs.  Managing tax risk requires sound advice from professionals who are well-versed in this challenging business environment.

KPMG’s Tax professionals assist clients with tax issues in the following areas:

• Accounting Methods and Credit Services
• Corporate Tax Operations Services
• Exempt Organizations Tax
• Federal Tax Legislative and Regulatory Services
• International Corporate Tax Services
• International Executive Services
• Mergers and Acquisitions Tax Services
• State and Local Tax Services
• Tax Controversy Services
• Trade and Customs
• Transfer Pricing Services
• Valuation Services

We bring value to our clients through our real-world experience and technical know-how. In addition, we alert clients to breaking tax news, keep them apprised of trends and key issues, and help them understand how new developments may impact their business through a variety of media, including our KPMG TaxWatch Thought Leadership Series, tax-related newsletters and publications; and our participation in various conferences and seminars.

Advisory
KPMG’s Advisory professionals are committed to helping organizations balance risk and controls with improved business performance, thus enabling organizations to maintain compliance and achieve sustainable value over time.
We work to help achieve:

• Early identification and assessment of risk and control issues that affect business performance
• Informed, effective responses to existing and proposed regulatory requirements, including geographic and industry-specific issues
• Strengthened governance, reporting, and internal controls to build stakeholder trust
• Improved efficiency and effectiveness of key business processes

The marketplace has long recognized KPMG’s depth of knowledge in areas of internal control, regulatory compliance, technology, treasury, stakeholder reporting, and process improvement. With this reputation, we are positioned to deliver relevant and effective business insights and services.
Our Advisory services include:

• CFO Advisory Services
• Financial Risk Management
• KPMG ForensicSM
• Information Risk Management
• Internal Audit, Regulatory and Compliance
• Operations Risk Management
• Transaction Services.

In a global marketplace distinguished by remarkable growth and consolidation, companies face a host of new challenges in today's economy. KPMG helps clients successfully respond to changing opportunities by providing professional services, wherever and whenever they're needed.  Our global network of firms is connected through three operating regions, bringing together our local and national resources with greater flexibility, responsiveness and consistency of service delivery worldwide.

Our purpose is to turn knowledge into value for the benefit of our clients, our people, and the capital markets. Our member firms aim to provide clients with a globally consistent set of multidisciplinary financial and accounting services, based on deep industry knowledge.

Our values determine how we behave, with clients and each other. They define what we stand for and how we do things, helping us to work together in the most effective and fulfilling way. This enables us to create a strong organizational culture—consistently—throughout the network.

We play an important role in the capital markets, and are highly active in supporting positive reform within our industry to strengthen credibility and confidence. We believe corporate social responsibility is at the heart of all great organizations, and are committed to making a real difference to the communities in which we operate.

KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm (www.us.kpmg.com), is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International. KPMG International’s member firms have 103,000 professionals, including 6,700 partners, in 144 countries.