KPMG Assessment Day Presentation

So I got fast tracked to the assessment day for KPMG for Graduate Auditing.
I've been asked to do a 10 minute presentation :eek:

on the topic:

You are working for KPMG as a junior advisor on a client (an organisation of your choice*). You are presenting to a Partner/Director who is heading up the KPMG team on the project for this client.

Your presentation is focused on the ways in which the client can further develop their business. What advice would you give to the organisation on effective expansion of their business, and why?

So this basically means I can choose any organisation I am confortable with say Airbus, and use my Aeronautical Engineering degree knowledge to help in giving practical advice as well as the usual business advice of 'increasing profits'?

Interestingly this was taken off http://www.kpmgapplygrad.co.uk/Procedure/KPMGAssessmentDay.asp, so it is going to be the same for all other graduates as well. So has anyone got any advice on this presentation? Would it be more appropriate to use a KPMG client, what sort of things would the Partner/Director be expecting me to say?

Many Thanks.

Reply 1

sul

How can airbus expand their business?

Firstly they could make their planes on time! lol.
They could move production from the UK to Germany where productivity is higher, but this may be seen as anti-UK (I think they have actually)
They have huge orders for the future from Emirates, Singapore Airlines for their A380 double decker.....this is what they need to concentrate on minimising losses and have some cost cutting initiatives....Im not too sure, i'm just a 2nd yr student.
Meeting targets and deadlines for orders....Management of Airbus is an important factor. Regional managers should be clear and concise with their employees and workers. Maybe have bonus schemes for orders that are made ahead of time? All this will increase profits and lead to more research and developement leading to expansion in the long term.

OR

You could choose a small business listed on the LSE and because it is small, the firm could have huge expansion plans....u might even wanna talk about Merging or Acquiring another company and bringing two businesses together ---------> economies of scale.

Apologies if i'm chatting *****.

Reply 2

theis

A few pointers,

It doesn't matter what so ever if its a KPMG client or not. In fact it could be better if it wasn't as the nightmare case would be to get the partner of the client you're presenting on. An urban legend that one guy picked a company and at the end of the interview the partner said "Well I'm the lead partner for that company and everything you've just told me is wrong"

I was given the advice of picking a small company, one that your knowledge of will equal the partners, these guys already have a massive head start in that they have amazing business knowledge, they will ask you some really really probing questions, it won't help if they get to read about said business in the press every day eg. Tesco's. The company I picked in the end was Red Bull, big enough that everyone knows the product, not so big that everyone knows their strategy, performance etc etc.

Gave a brief overview of the business, did a bit of SWOT analysis, focused on each in turn listing what I thought the strengths, weaknesses etc were and then summed up with what I thought the firm should do and how best to go about doing it. Just make sure that its well structured, sensible and shows good business sense.

Whatever happens DO NOT pick a business school cliched company. eg. easyJet, can guarantee that the partner will have already sat through numerous of those presentations and know every single question possible to ask.

Anyway, well done on getting this far and the best of luck with your presentation.

Reply 3

sci123

Ok so I decided in the end to do Airbus.

Im currently working on two sections, both business and technical. Reason being is that there have been technical issues with the A380 causing the delay so I'm thinkin about suggesting things to prevent technical problems later on.

Should I actually mention these technical suggestions? (i'm an aeronautical engineer hence i know a few things the technical department could do...).

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