Tag Archives: KPMG

A local Singaporean student have wrote in insisting how a big local company is abusing the internship program to actually use it as their stepping stone to actually hire foreign talents on a full time basis. The local student, who indicated that he is from the Singapore Management Univeristy (SMU), lifted the lid on how job snatchers enter Singapore on the pretext of doing their internships here, but are actually here on a trial.

An independent panel for Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC) is taking a few of its town councillors to court in relation to its improper use of public funds. Workers' Party's Low Thia Khiang, Pritam Singh and Sylvia Lim have received a statement of claim and are in the midst of studying it.

In a statement released last Friday (17 February), Aljunied Hougang Town Council has announced that it would be appointing a 3 man panel of eminent persons to review the KPMG Past Payments Report, which was issued in October last year. The WP-run town council stated that it disagreed with the perspective of the report and was taking this measure to safeguard AHTC interests.

The Workers’ Party, which runs Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC), has resolved more areas of non-compliance with the Town Councils Act according to its auditing firm KPMG.

Much has been said about it from both sides, but what amazes me is that suddenly, everyone has become an accounting expert, with comments akin to "COI siolllll" or "KPMG kelong". Guys, we're talking about a professional, reputed accounting firm here. What is certain, however, is that the WP should stop trying to DENY these mistakes. If a mistake is made, fix it, come clean about it, and learn from it - that's how it SHOULD work. For the sake of their political reputation, and moreover, for the sake of the residents of Aljunied and Hougang, I sincerely hope that the WP adopts this approach.