Going audit-gital

KPMG chairman Bill Thomas tells how technology has impacted the work of auditors, and delivers an impassioned response to recent criticism of scandals in the accounting profession.

Annabeth Leow

Published Fri, Jan 4, 2019 · 09:50 PM

Raffles Conversation

CRACK auditor and boardroom bigwig he may be, but KPMG global chairman William "Bill" Thomas is a family man at heart.

Even though his two older children have flown the coop to attend university, he still jets across the world on weekends to spend time in Toronto with his wife and their youngest child.

"Wherever I am in the world, I do my very best to make it home on Friday night or Saturday morning, because spending that weekend with my family is that difference between the quality of the relationship I have with them and the one I wouldn't," says Mr Thomas, 52, shrugging off any hint of discomfort from his globe-trotting lifestyle.