{"id":831101,"date":"2026-07-29T11:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831101\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:07:09","slug":"kpmg-australia-will-sack-dozens-of-partners-1000-staff-amid-audit-scandal-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831101\/","title":{"rendered":"KPMG Australia will sack dozens of partners, 1000 staff amid audit scandal fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KPMG Australia will lay off dozens of partners and 1000 staff in September, representing more than 10 per cent of its workforce, after members of its global leadership team arrived in Australia seeking to stem the fallout from the local firm\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/professional-services\/kpmg-directors-failed-to-use-unrestricted-powers-to-probe-claims-20260728-p60j65\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">audit misconduct scandal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Details of the job cuts were shared with selected partners this week, along with a warning to unhappy members of KPMG Australia\u2019s 700-strong partnership: support the new local leadership team of chief executive John Sams and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/professional-services\/kpmg-picks-ex-sbs-boss-as-chair-mulls-20pc-partner-pay-cut-20260701-p60bsx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chairman Michael Ebeid<\/a> or leave.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KPMG Australia will lay off dozens of partners and 1000 staff in September, representing more than 10 per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-831101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}