KPMG Facts
l €15m invested in communities
KPMG has a clear role and responsibility within the business community. We help companies to grow with confidence. We create fulfilling career opportunities. And we help to build trust between investors and organisations. To get an insight into KPMG in the UK there are some interesting facts below:
l 9th in the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for 2011
KPMG has been awarded 9th place in the Sunday Times ‘Best Big Companies To Work for’ List 2011
KPMG has consistently been placed in the top 10 for the last 6 years and this year as the highest ranking of the Big 4 Accountancy firms. In 2009 KPMG received a special ‘Lifetime Achievement’ award in recognition of our performance in the list.
l 43% of our headcount are women
46% of the workforce across KPMG Europe LLP are women and accounted for 45% of graduate recruits in 2008.
In 2008 our full community contribution was nearly €15m and over 5,500 KPMG Europe LLP people contributed 57,000 hours to this work.
We raised €1.6m for Help the Hospices over 2 years. We are just one of 21 organisations in the UK to have achieved the Business in the Community ‘CommunityMark’ and, once again, to be named ‘Best for Giving Something Back’ in the Sunday Times Best Companies awards.
We are now measuring our carbon footprint and working on ways to reduce these impacts.
In 2007, 4.8million travel miles have been saved through car sharing and video conferencing.
95% of our energy is sourced from renewable sources saving 73,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions since May 2001.
Our new office in Canary Wharf will have ambitious sustainability targets including a 50% CO2 cut against 2006 Building Regulations.
History of KPMG KPMG was formed in 1987 with the merger of Peat Marwick International (PMI) and Klynveld Main Goerdeler (KMG) and their individual member firms. Spanning three centuries, the organization’s history can be traced through the names of its principal founding members - whose initials form the name “KPMG.”
K for Klynveld
P for Peat
M for Marwick
G for Goerdeler
Piet Klynveld founded the accounting firm Klynveld Kraayenhof & Co. in Amsterdam in 1917.
William Barclay Peat founded the accounting firm William Barclay Peat & Co. in London in 1870.
James Marwick founded the accounting firm Marwick, Mitchell & Co. with Roger Mitchell in New York City in 1897.
Dr. Reinhard Goerdeler was for many years chairman of Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft and later chairman of KPMG. He is credited with laying much of the groundwork for the KMG merger.
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