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A firm reports revenue by service line (£m) for Year 1 and Year 3: Audit: 240 to 276 Tax and Legal: 150 to 180 Consulting: 90 to 117 Deal Advisory: 60 to 81 Which service line recorded the LARGEST PERCENTAGE growth over the period?
Correct answer: D - Deal Advisory
A firm's share of its market rose from 18% to 22% over one year. Which statement describes this change CORRECTLY?
Correct answer: D - Market share rose by 4 percentage points, a relative increase of approximately 22%.
Office A has 40 staff averaging 32 billable hours per week. Office B has 60 staff averaging 27 billable hours per week. What is the average number of billable hours per week across both offices combined?
Correct answer: B - 29.0 hours
You are three weeks into your graduate role. Reviewing a file, you notice that a schedule you prepared contains an error, and that the figure was included in a report issued to the client yesterday. The error is small and does not change the report's conclusions. What is the MOST appropriate action?
Correct answer: D - Tell your manager immediately, explaining the error and its impact, and agree how to correct it with the client.
Two managers on different engagements each ask you for a piece of work by 5pm tomorrow. You can complete one of them to a high standard in that time, but not both. What should you do FIRST?
Correct answer: C - Tell both managers about the clash straight away and ask them to agree which takes priority.
Read the passage: "The firm introduced a four-day working week across its Manchester office in January. In the six months that followed, staff turnover in that office fell from 14% to 9%. The firm has said it will review the arrangement before deciding whether to extend it to other offices." Based ONLY on the passage, which statement is supported?
Correct answer: C - Turnover in the Manchester office was lower in the six months after the change than before it.
All members of the audit team hold a professional qualification. Some people who hold a professional qualification also speak Mandarin. Which conclusion MUST be true?
Correct answer: D - Anyone who does not hold a professional qualification is not a member of the audit team.
A graduate checks the underlying evidence, then challenges a long-standing methodology in front of a senior client team. Which of KPMG's global values does this BEST demonstrate?
Correct answer: C - Courage
What number comes next in the following sequence? 4, 9, 8, 18, 16, 36, ?
Correct answer: B - 32
A partner argues: "We should move our graduate assessment centre online. Last year 30% of the candidates we invited to the in-person centre did not attend, and running it online would remove that problem." The argument depends on which assumption?
Correct answer: A - Candidates who did not attend were prevented from doing so by the in-person format.
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