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An Accenture Research report expects average AI token prices to fall about 19% over the next two years while token consumption rises about 78%, so overall AI spend may not drop. Only 35% of organisations can precisely calculate the cost per business outcome of their busiest AI use case.
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Murata Manufacturing has signed a three-year partnership with Accenture to transform its factories with AI and data, covering quality control, digital verification, IT infrastructure and talent. For some initiatives, part of Accenture's pay will be tied to shared performance targets. The invoice now has a scorecard attached.
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Accenture chair and CEO Julie Sweet bought 12,200 Class A shares in two transactions at weighted average prices of about $245 and $246, a total of $3,001,041, according to a Form 4 filing. She now directly owns 48,910 shares, TradingView reports.
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Eisner Advisory CEO Charles Weinstein told The Economic Times that private equity changed the ownership model of accounting firms and AI will change the business model. EisnerAmper, in India since 2006, now has about 1,100 people there. The billable hour has been told to start updating its CV.
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Deloitte Anjin Accounting and law firms Daeryook & Aju and Lin signed an MOU in Seoul on 28 October to help companies with AI compliance, combining legal advice with AI risk management consulting. The pact responds to Korea's Basic AI Act and the EU's AI Act.
Read more at biz.chosun.com →The Australian Financial Review's Professional Life newsletter reports that the first independent report into KPMG is sceptical about the firm's promises of change after the audit leaks scandal. The edition also covers a dispute between the Tax Ombudsman and the ATO over the scale of tax complaints.
Read more at afr.com →Repodo, launched in August in Copenhagen, has set up its own audit firm with its technology at the centre, rather than selling software to established firms, Paperjam reports. It targets small Danish businesses first, then Sweden and the UK. The pyramid has received a competitor shaped like a flowchart.
Read more at en.paperjam.lu →Accenture Song South Africa won five Golds, a Craft Gold, four Silvers, two Bronzes and two Craft Certificates at the Loeries for its work with the Philipstown WireCar Foundation. The campaign took a Karoo town's annual wire-car race into film, gaming, technology and live events.
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A McKinsey survey of about 21,000 consumers in 11 markets found 29% of AI shoppers say AI chat or search tools most influenced their latest purchase, triple the share citing search engines. US AI users completing purchases through AI rose from 10% to 17% since December 2025.
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A World Economic Forum and BCG report covering 35 jurisdictions argues that tokenisation and digital money may matter more than Bitcoin for how rules are written. Titled Regulation of Digital Assets in a Shifting Global Landscape, it says digital assets are reshaping how money moves and markets work.
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KPMG's 2026 India CEO Outlook, based on responses from 125 CEOs in India, finds a leadership group that remains optimistic despite cyber threats, regulatory change and rapid AI adoption. CEOs are investing in cyber resilience, AI governance, workforce readiness and sustainability, the report says.
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Bain & Company's Building Blocks Construction Indicator forecasts gradual recovery in European construction through 2029, with 2026 better than last year. New housing is recovering more slowly than expected, held back by higher interest rates, stretched affordability and cost pressures, so a full rebound is unlikely before 2029.
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BCG's sixth biennial Digital Government Citizen Survey, run across 44 countries, found 87% of respondents in Qatar satisfied with digital government services, with usage of those services at 40%. The report says AI is now reshaping what citizens across the GCC expect from them.
Read more at MENAFN →Digital channels influence over 40% of insurance sales in India, according to Google and McKinsey, (Re)in Asia reports. Only about one in ten life and health policies is bought through direct digital channels, as buyers still seek human advice. The full piece is for subscribers.
Read more at reinasia.com →NTT DATA Institute of Management Consulting has published a report on themes from the 2026 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, which gathers more than 20,000 members from about 120 countries. It focuses on AI's growing influence on management research and on how the firm itself is being redesigned.
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Parloa has announced an alliance with McKinsey & Company to help enterprises manage AI agents in customer conversations. McKinsey teams, including QuantumBlack, will assess readiness and design agentic systems, while Parloa brings its AI Agent Management Platform. Parloa calls itself an agentic CX leader, as one does.
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Proxima, the procurement and supply chain consultancy owned by Bain & Company, plans to increase its workforce by 50% by the end of 2027 as demand grows for procurement transformation and cost optimisation in Southeast Asia. Its Asia Pacific unit has around 150 professionals.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo is inviting expressions of interest from management consulting firms for an eight-month assignment on its e-government strategy and digital infrastructure. The wider programme is backed by $500 million from the World Bank and the French Development Agency, Consultancy.africa reports.
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Accounting firm Citrin Cooperman and law firm Michael Best & Friedrich have formed an alliance to offer intellectual property strategy and management consulting to middle-market companies and private equity funds. It pairs Michael Best's IP practice and data platform with Citrin Cooperman Advisors' consulting arm.
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GB Railfreight, the UK's largest rail freight operator, has appointed Jude Winstanley as chief executive from 2 November, succeeding founder John Smith. Winstanley has held senior roles at Swissport, IAG and British Airways and an advisory position with Bain & Company. He joins from London Southend Airport.
Read more at news.railbusinessdaily.com →Ingersoll Rand has appointed Sanjay Pingili as HR director for the Middle East, India and Africa. He joins from dsm-firmenich and has more than two decades in HR operations. He began his career as an HR analyst at Deloitte in 2004, BW People reports.
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The Union Cabinet has approved a ₹10,000 crore Container Manufacturing Scheme that will run for 13 years and aims to raise annual domestic capacity nearly tenfold to 750,000 TEUs by 2040. It also approved a ₹1,856.67 crore scheme for sports goods manufacturing.
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The government has extended the Production Linked Incentive scheme for textiles until 2034 and cut the minimum turnover requirement for some manufacturers from ₹200 crore to ₹100 crore to draw in smaller firms. A reopened portal will accept applications from 1 November to 31 December.
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Nasscom has asked the Finance Ministry to defer revised GST rules for delivery services through ecommerce operators until 1 January 2027, citing technology, accounting and compliance challenges. The change was recommended by the 57th GST Council, and Nasscom filed its representation on 28 October.
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From 1 November, small online sellers can expand into states where they have no premises by using an ecommerce platform's warehouse as their local base, under a new GST registration route. CBIC also revised rules on scrap purchases and exporter refunds and expanded e-invoicing from January.
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The CBIC has said Sections 74(1) and 74A(5)(ii) of the CGST Act can be invoked only where there is specific evidence of intent to evade tax, such as fraud or wilful misstatement. Officers cannot apply them automatically just because scrutiny finds a discrepancy.
Read more at The Economic Times →Sebi chair Pandey said some compliance requirements for foreign portfolio investors in India are more onerous than in other major jurisdictions, and the regulator will issue a consultation paper on aligning them with global standards while keeping investor protection safeguards. He spoke at a Business Standard summit.
Read more at The Economic Times →RBI Deputy Governor Poonam Gupta said India is projected to be the only emerging economy among nine with GDP above $1 trillion to reduce its government debt-to-GDP ratio between 2025 and 2031. General government debt is seen falling from 84.3% to 75.1% of GDP.
Read more at The Economic Times →India will seek further discussions with the UK on its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, due from 1 January 2027, BusinessLine reports. London has recognised India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme as a qualifying scheme, but the rules for calculating and verifying emissions are still being finalised.
Read more at BusinessLine →The Apparel Export Promotion Council says 88% of India's apparel exports come from just 100 districts and has urged a broader export base, wider use of free trade agreements and 100 Champion Districts as export hubs. The target is $100 billion in textile and apparel exports by 2030.
Read more at Rediff Money →India's drug price regulator has revised the maximum retail prices of 543 trade margin-capped cancer drug brands and pack sizes, with cuts of up to 93%, Business Standard reports. Several generics and biosimilars became much cheaper, while some top-selling innovator brands saw no change.
Read more at Business Standard →A report on India's net zero by 2070 goal describes carbon capture, utilisation and storage as a pathway for industrial emissions that renewables cannot easily remove, such as high-temperature processes. NITI Aayog identifies CCUS as critical for hard-to-abate sectors including steel, cement and oil.
Read more at jharkhandstatenews.com →Goa's cabinet has approved the Chief Minister's MSME innovation scheme 2026, extending start-up policy benefits to non-IT start-ups including micro, small and medium enterprises registered with the state's Start-up and IT Cell. The policy aims to improve innovation, competitiveness and manufacturing in the sector.
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Consulting was the largest recruiting sector in IIM Calcutta's summer placements, with 220 offers or 40.29% of the total. All 475 students in the 63rd MBA batch got placed, with 546 offers from 156 companies and a record average monthly stipend of ₹1.93 lakh.
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IIM Ahmedabad's PGP Class of 2028 has received more than 160 summer roles across two clusters, with over 75 in the second cluster on 27 October across nine cohorts. Recruiters span consulting, banking, private equity and consumer goods, and fashion and real estate joined in the second round.
Read more at The Financial Express →Several Indian B-schools are adding AI to core subjects and launching courses in generative AI, analytics and responsible AI, the Free Press Journal reports. Jaipuria School of Business director Tapan Kumar Nayak said generative AI has made developing good judgement under uncertainty harder to deliver.
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IIM Lucknow has launched a two-year MBA in Family Business for owners and the next generation of family enterprises, covering strategy, governance and succession. Participants use their own firms as live case studies in Family Business Labs. Applications close on 31 December. The case study comes home for dinner.
Read more at The Indian Express →
Akshay Vajpayee, Salesforce vice president of corporate marketing for Slack, encouraged Filipino professionals to take roles that build skills instead of staying comfortable. He began at McKinsey, working in the US, Germany, Japan and Canada. "I have never made a decision I did not think carefully about first," he said.
Read more at tribune.net.ph →Consulting, strategy and advisory roles checked today, India first. Every listing links to the original posting. The case interview is still yours to crack.
Upcoming summits and forums, each checked against its own page this morning. The networking is billable to nobody.