Accountants may not be leading on many IT consultancy projects these days, but
accounting firms continue to advise and serve companies with outsourcing,
management consultancy advice and other services
Some consultants argue that careless cost-cutting during the last recession did more damage than the downturn itself - and they warn against repeating these mistakes this time.
Putting together two engineering giants was never going to be easy, given their different histories and cultures. BTR's Kathleen O'Donovan has to convince Siebe shareholders that it can work.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has developed a War Room in which financial directors and their teams can to go to battle against their own preconceptions. Call it a boardroom blitz for the mind.
There is still a discrepancy between what companies think will happen and what actually does happen so what should they do to avoid any nasty surprises?