[mariakurina]

It was a gift for me since I’m from Big4 🙂
But it feels like some questions were different. Is it possible???
I might have missed some points since I didn’t have enough time time for Task 5. As far as I remember 1 exhibit was just a general information

First question was about listing advantages and disadvantages of proposed governance structure. I used Général info exhibit and structure offer exhibit.
Second one was to advice to managing director on whether an offer to sell consulting subsidiary should be accepted. I used the sale offer details with services provided by subsidiary and forecasted profits for next 4 years + I used the newspaper exhibit about rising popularity of digital services and increasing competition.
Third one was about ethics issue in one of offices based on fired manager letter to partner. Should have been a confidential email. Exhibit used was a email from fired manager.
Forth (a) was to list pluses and problems which will arise from automation in audit. Exhibit with newspaper+exhibit with twitter-like posts (there were likes and comments)
Forth (b) was to list pluses and problems which will arise from introducing internal audit instead of quality reviews. There was an exhibit (#8 I guess) where managing director was offering to set up an internal audit department consisting of people from several departments which would also assess efficiency of audit

I didn’t have enough time for 5 task (slides) but I I think newspaper and Online post with comments should have been used.

Maybe I misread something but I didn’t see anything that would allow to calculate something like revenue per partner. Or where centralization and closure of departments should have been discussed. Which question is that?

[mariakurina]

Task 1 was to prepare a part of report to managing partner on plusus and disadvanates of proposed governance change. I use Exhibit 1 (general information) and the one with the supervisory and executive boards plan. Since it was directed to managing partner I didnt write anything like “you have too much power”, I used phrases like “best practices suggest to segregate duties”.

Task 2 was to prepare a part of report to managing director about potential sale of consulting subsidiary. I used Exhibit with sale detail (it also had list of subsidiary services provided and forecasted revenue, costs and profits for the next 4 years). I also used newspaper exhibit (it was named something like “middle-sized entities report”) to get info that audit is low-profit now, comptetition is high, and clients are interested in new automation services.

Task 3 was to write a confidential email to operating partner about ethics issue in office in some city. Exhibit used was a mail from fired manager. Naming ethics and business consequences was required, as well as proposing actions to adress them to verify fired manager’s accusations and actions to avoid listed issued in the future.

Task 4 (a) was to list pluses and problems of using automation in audit. I used newspaper + there was an exhibit like a online post with comments.

Task 4(b) was to list pluses and problems of introducing internal audit department instead of current quality review. Exhibit was the last one, where managing director writes to someone about forming this internal audit department, comprising of people from several departments and assessing not just audit quality but audit efficiency.

Task 5 but to prepare a slides and comments on culture changes, but i didnt have enough time to even start this one.

Honestly, i dont remember any task asking about closing smaller offices, centralization or something. I also don’t remember any task where revenue per partner would be needed, no any information to calculate those. For which tasks you guys used it and in which exhibit we got information from?

[mariakurina]

There were prof marks for sceptisism relating to fired manager mail. So i was structuring my answer accordingly. Like:
Manager stated that partner is the only one who makes promotions/redundancy decisions and only staff from previous partner’s company were promoted and only staff from second company were made redundant. There is a risk of… blablabla. However, it should be kept in mind that manager may not be aware of all promotion/redundancy procedures. Also manager did not state a reason for his redundancy. It is also prossible that people were promoted and made redundant based on their performance, not perious place of work.

Suggestions: to ensure hr policy is clear enough to all employess, embrace feedback practice so that staff knew why they’re promoted/fired. For decision it’s best practice it hold a round tables where all partners and senior managers could discuss each staff performance and discuss promotion.

[mariakurina]

I’ve seen somewhere they were highliting that everyone will get the same questions – both paper and CBE versions. I guess goegraphically the principle should be the same.

But i mean if half of us are sure about sale and other half is sure about office closure, then we had 2 versions of Task 2 🙂

[mariakurina]

Is it possible to have two versions? I had a sale of subsidiary and nothing about closing the office. I even had no info to calculate these revenue per partner or anything other people listed.
I’m pretty sure it was about sale for 25 mln to a competitor…

[mariakurina]

1, 2, 3 and 5 had only one question inside as far as remeber. Only task 4 had (a) and (b) parts

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