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Ernst and Young. Pahilajani is the only woman among her team members, with a ratio of 9:1 (Men to Woman). Women are taking the stride every day in their careers.

New York | Shortly after Janet Truncale was picked as the next global chief executive at EY, she dialled in to a video call with executives in the US, appearing alongside two of the people she had beaten in the race and the head of EY’s US business, who had pushed for another candidate.

The City of Parramatta is leaving central Sydney in its wake as the nation’s most exciting commercial and cultural hub. New transport links, revitalised commercial precincts and the revamp of the Riverside Theatre are huge drawcards, helping to attract people and businesses to the area.

Gift-giving season is just around the corner, but one quarter of Canadians still haven’t paid off their holiday spending debt from last year, a recent survey has found.

Strong demand for traditional auditing, accounting and tax services, along with fast-growing consulting offerings, helped boost annual revenue at mid-tier accounting firms by a breakneck 17 per cent, to $2.8 billion.

HCLTech said on Tuesday that it has appointed Sonia Eland as executive vice president and country manager for Australia and New Zealand effective April 1, 2024. In her new role, Sonia will report to Swapan Johri, president, growth markets at HCLTech. Sonia will be based in Sydney and takes over from Michael Horton, who will move into a consulting role after a stint of close to 10 years, during which he helped establish HCLTech as a digital technology services partner in Australia and New Zealand.

Digital payments platform Razorpay plans to move its parent firm to India through a cross-country merger that may entail a tax payment of $250-300 million in the US, where it is currently domiciled, according to multiple people aware of discussions. The planned merger will be between the US-registered firm and its Indian arm, they said.

Spain’s securities market regulatory body said it had begun investigating its inaugural case pertaining to a potential violation of regulations governing large-scale advertising campaigns for crypto assets.

$553 million investment from the United States government for its West Container Terminal in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Karan Adani, CEO of Adani Group told reporters Adani Ports is eyeing further “opportunities in our neighboring countries", Bloomberg reported. Speaking to reporters in Colombo Adani also said the US financing, backed by the International Development Finance Corporation, is a "reaffirmation" of international support for the Indian conglomerate's companies. According to Adani, the neighbouring countries include potential ventures in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Tanzania, besides the existing plans in Sri Lanka and Israel.

Karan Adani boasted that a newly inked $553 million US government financing deal toward a port terminal being developed by his family’s conglomerate was a “reaffirmation by the international community.” The announcement marked a welcome reprieve for India’s Adani Group following a damaging short-seller attack and a number of corporate fraud allegations leveled against it this year. It also signaled Washington’s endorsement for the port empire owned by Karan’s father and billionaire Gautam Adani — seen as a close ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi — that would help curb China’s maritime influence in the Indian ocean. Those waters account for more than one-third of the world’s bulk cargo traffic and two-thirds of oil shipments. Chakri Lokapriya, chief investment officer at TCG Asset Management Co. in Mumbai, called Adani’s port ambitions a “strategic” play, assisting India to counter China’s own string of ports in its backyard, stretching from Sri Lanka to Pakistan. Now Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd., seen as the conglomerate’s crown jewel, is eyeing further “opportunities in our neighboring countries,” Karan Adani, the operator’s chief executive officer, told Bloomberg News in the Sri Lankan capital. Those include potential ventures in Bangladesh, as well as East African and Southeast Asian nations, including Tanzania and Vietnam, adding to its existing Sri Lanka and Israel developments, he said. In a world that’s “looking beyond China — it is indeed a Chinese-styled expansion by Adani,” said Sanjiv Bhasin, director at Mumbai-based IIFL Securities Ltd.

₹10.6 trillion, official data released on Friday showed, creating additional spending room for the government in an election year. Provisional data till 9 November showed the government has so far collected 58% of the ₹18.2 trillion budgeted for FY24. Gross direct tax receipts (without adjusting for refunds of ₹1.77 trillion) were ₹12.37 trillion, 18% above last year’s ₹ 10.52 trillion.

The Optus outage is forecast to hasten a shake-up of the telecommunications industry, threatening the Singaporean-owned group’s mobile market share as it scrambles to stop customers from fleeing after massive disruption to internet and phone services on Wednesday.

EY Oceania will cut 232 people, more than 2 per cent of its 10,700-strong workforce, as a “significant” reduction in demand from financial services and public sector clients hits its bottom line.

Banks and large institutional players are looking for avenues into the stablecoin industry following PayPal’s latest crypto foray, according to Deloitte Principal and Partner Richard Rosenthal.

₹10,000 crore today) for the online tutoring company in the US, and removing Riju Raveendran, the brother of the edtech giant’s founder, from the SPV’s board. The ruling is significant because the case filed by Glas Trust Co., the trustee representing 37 lenders, against the Indian company in Delaware was the first court case that sparked two related courtroom battles in New York and Miami. “The plaintiffs in this action, Glas Trust Co.

Commonwealth Bank is blocking 400,000 abusive messages each year being sent to vulnerable female customers with a tiny payment attached – a form of coercive control by men that can be a precursor to domestic violence.

The nation’s once dominant consulting firm, PwC Australia, will cut 344 roles, or more than 4 per cent of its 8000-strong workforce, as fallout from its tax leaks scandal and the economic slowdown reduce demand for its services.

Westpac is preparing to remove PwC as its external auditor and put the work up for tender in a move that will reshape the audit landscape for the critical financial services sector.

Auditors referred to the corporate watchdog could avoid public scrutiny by resigning before an investigation is complete, a Senate committee has heard.

Smaller accounting firms say the current regulatory regime is useless and riven by conflicts of interest between the major professional bodies and the larger firms.

Poornima Damodaran, Partner, Deloitte with members consisting of Kumar Nitesh, CEO Trend Footwear & Ajio Business, Reliance Retail, Dr. Amit Malik, CEO, Amaha Healthcare, Mithun Appaiah, CEO, Wow Momos, Sudhir Samal, CEO, UB International Trading Ltd., and Anupa Rongala, Director & CEO, Invensis. Kumar Nitesh mentioned, “It is important for the management to have healthy communication within the organization to build the values together".