| Is my company required to submit audited annual accounts? |
| | No. The only financial information your company needs to submit is the ratios requested on the Financial Questionnaire, and the range within which your company’s turnover falls.
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| Will KPMG visit my company to verify the data submitted on the Financial Questionnaire? |
| | No. However if your company makes it to the Top 100 List, then KPMG reserves the right to request your company to obtain a certificate in the following format, signed by your company’s auditors:-
“We, the auditors of XYZ Company, confirm that the ratios submitted by XYZ company on the Top 100 Mid Sized companies Survey Financial Questionnaire, a copy of which is attached hereto, have been computed in line with the formulae stipulated on the questionnaire, and using figures from the audited accounts for the financial years ended (month) 2006, (month), 2007 and (month) 2008.”
Signed
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[Name of audit firm] |
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| What is the deadline for submission of the questionnaires? |
| | The deadline is Wednesday 15th July 2009. |
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| What information does KPMG receive and what information does Business Daily / Daily Monitor receive? |
| | All completed questionnaires will be reviewed and analyzed by KPMG, with Synovate Research providing assistance in analyzing the data submitted on the non-financial questionnaires.
KPMG will then prepare a detailed Survey report.
The Executive Summary of this report will then be given to Business Daily / Daily Monitor. No questionnaires will be reviewed and analyzed by Business Daily/Daily Monitor. The journalists may however seek to interview the Top 100 companies but this will be after the Award Dinner and Conference/Exhibition. Such interviews will be separate from the Survey. |
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| What information will be published in the press? |
| | A special supplement will be published in the Business Daily/Daily Monitor. The information that will be published in the supplement will be as follows:-
- All Award Winners
- The Top 100 list
- Brief profiles of the Top 100
- In depth interviews of the Top 20
- Rankings for all 7 financial parameters for the top 10 in each industry
- Key trends and insights emerging from the Survey including but not limited to the following:-
- Comparisons of revenue growth rate, ROE, and other parameters from industry to industry
- Industry spread of survey respondents and of the Top 100;
- Financial parameter ranges for the Survey respondents. Unless otherwise agreed, it is anticipated that only ranges (and explanatory statistics such as highest, median, average, lowest) will be published.
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| What information will be made available to industry associations? |
| | KPMG will avail one copy each of the full Survey report to all industry associations that support the Survey. The copy will be made available at a fee. |
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| What support should an industry association give in order to get a copy of the report? |
| | Advertise the Survey in the industry journal, industry website and on emails to members.
Endorse the survey and encourage members to take part. |
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| Do I need to pay any fee to participate? |
| | No. Participation is completely free. |
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| Will my company be able to exhibit its products at the conference? |
| | No. The exhibition booths at the Top 100 conference are reserved for large companies that partner with us on the Survey in order to serve the Top 100 companies.
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| If my company makes it to the Top 100 list, what marketing benefits derive from this award? |
| | Any company that makes it to the Top 100 list can make reference to the award in its marketing/promotional material.
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