If you happen to be an Accenture employee in India, you will have to stop dreaming about taking leave at least for the next couple of months. Accenture told some of its employees today through team meetings that they would not be allowed to take leave till March 31, and the leave that had already been granted will stand cancelled for the period, sources said. Accenture...

The government-appointed Board of Directors of Satyam Computer Services Limited has appointed Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as management advisors to support the Directors and the Satyam leadership team and declared that the employees will get their January salaries on time. Goldman Sachs and Avendus have been appointed investment bankers to advise the company on the...

With the economic climate so precarious, 2009 will be a time when successful businesses have to redefine what they do and how they do it. Hunkering down to weather the storm and emerging the same as before when the economy begins to recover won’t cut it. Too much will have changed. But the opportunities will be extraordinary for business leaders who have the vision,...

Furious Indian investors are demanding to know how PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), one of the world’s largest accountancy firms, missed a systematic £1 billion fraud at Satyam, the IT outsourcing giant, for as long as seven years. In contrast, Merrill Lynch, the US bank, became aware of the deception in just ten days. PwC’s role in “India’s Enron”...

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Consultancy major PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said it has acquired all shares of ECS Ltd, providers of HR consulting services, from the erstwhile owners Eicher Goodearth. The cost of acquisition has not been revealed. “The acquisition will enhance PwCs expertise in the consulting space and supplement its client focused advisory services in the manufacturing and...