INFO 663 - Discussion Questions for KPMG Peak Marwick: The Shadow Partner

Website: http://www.kpmg.com/

Major discussion topic areas:

• What are the challenges that KPMG Peat Marwick faces over the next five to ten years? What are the organizational implications of these challenges?
• How important is implementation of the Shadow Partner for KPMG?
• Why is the Shadow Partner project facing so much resistance?
• As Bob Elliot, how would you describe the benefits of the Shadow Partner for the partners? As a member of the US Operating Committee, how would you evaluate the investment in the Shadow Partner?
• What advice would you give Tony Sapienza? What advice would you give Jon Madonna and Jim Brocksmith?

Additional reading material:

• Anonymous "Accounting: All Change," Economist 325(7781):19-22, October 17. 1992
• Foust, Dean "The Big Size Are In Big Trouble" Business Week 32(60):78-79, April 6, 1992
• Callum, Rebecca A., Thomas C. Waller and Dianne B. Love, "Microcomputers in the Big Eight," CPA Journal, October 1, 1987, pp. 1124-1127
• Stodghill, Ron II, "Who Says Accountants Can't Jump? Business Week (Industrial/Technology Edition) 32(90):98-100. October 26, 1992
• Stozier, Robert M. "Teaming Up," World 25(1):6-11, 1991