Companies going this route will find plenty of competition from accounting firms. Deloitte just created a special scholarship to sponsor the fifth year of college accounting programs for minority candidates, while KPMG is recruiting 50 college freshmen and sophomores from African-American and Hispanic backgrounds to participate in internships over two summers. "We've got to force our way back even earlier into the pipeline," says Tonie Leatherberry, director and national diversity and inclusion leader at Deloitte Consulting. — A.N.S.
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Inside the June 2007 Issue
Cover Story
- Gap Analysis
Features
- Hedge-fund Bullies
- Measuring Up
- Siemens's Joseph Kaeser
Also Inside
- The Diversity Gap
- No More Stupid Accounting Tricks
- Not So Taxing?
- A Little Less Shifty
- View from Europe: Global Bribery
- For Road Warriors, Lightening Strikes Again
- Pitch Fever
- Food Safety in a Global Supply Chain
- A Piece of the P-E
- Not Cleared for Takeoff
- Grapevine, May 2007
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