Since returning disappointed in Professor Simon's class, Tang Bao has sobered up a lot, let go, and he has started to do his own thing again.

……

this day.

After handing over his final assessment assignment to Professor Lederman, Tang Bao left the campus, intending to go to Phoenix Investment Group to have a look.

Wow.

Tang Bao's appearance caused a small commotion in the company, if I remember correctly, their little boss has not come to the company for almost a month.

Some of the new employees didn't know Tang Bao.

On the road.

Every employee greeted Tang Bao respectfully, and Tang Bao also responded with a smile and a nodding head, a group of kind, completely lacking the majesty that a boss should have.

"Boss."

Horst waited at the door of the chairman's office, saw Tang Bao coming, and hurriedly greeted him.

"Heh, you're well-informed, I just entered the company, and you're waiting at my door." Tang Bao said with a smile, pushed open the door, and entered.

Horst followed closely.

……

After Tang Bao sat down.

Horst took out a document from the folder, handed it to Tang Bao, and explained: "Boss, this is the company's ......"

Tang Bao waved his hand to stop Horst's words, he didn't need to listen to know what Horst was going to say next, "Since the company is handed over to you to manage, you can do it freely, you don't need to report the company's finances to me every month, you just need to wait for the end of the year to give me a financial statement." ”

"Understood." Horst continued.

For the trust and authority given to him by Tang Bao, Horst was very grateful from the bottom of his heart, and he was also very afraid, afraid that he would be sorry for the trust given by Tang Bao.

Of course......

Suddenly transformed from a multi-million dollar fund manager to the president of a multi-billion dollar group, Horst also lacked self-confidence. Therefore, when encountering a slightly bigger problem, he would think of asking Tang Bao, the boss, for a while, and lacked the courage to make a decision.

Tang Bao could also understand Horst's caution.

It takes time to get used to such drastic changes.

"Boss, I have already talked to the five major accounting firms about the cooperation with accounting firms, and finally chose to finalize Deloitte and Arthur Andersen, and initially reached a cooperative relationship including financial audit, taxation, legal consulting, corporate strategy consulting, etc. Both Deloitte and Arthur Andersen value us as a client and are both striving to become strategic partners of Phoenix Investment Group, and I intend to hand over the financial aspects of this private placement to Deloitte and Arthur Andersen to determine who will ultimately become our main partner through a comprehensive evaluation comparison. Horst recounted his plan.

"Deloitte and Arthur Andersen?"

"Yes."

Tang Bao frowned, carefully searching the memories in his mind, Deloitte, he is very familiar, but Arthur Andersen...... It seems that the world's four largest accounting firms, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, KPMG, and Ernst & Young, did not have Arthur Andersen. Yes, it's the Big Four, not the Big Four.

Arthur Andersen, Arthur Andersen......

Tang Bao muttered, thinking carefully about the accounting firm, and suddenly, with a slap on the leg, he finally remembered why Arthur Andersen was gone.

If memory serves.

At the beginning of the 21st century, Arthur Andersen was investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its involvement in the outbreak of the Enron financial scandal and bankruptcy, and was criminally prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice, and finally found guilty by the court of obstructing the government's investigation into the Enron bankruptcy case.

In the end, Arthur Andersen went bankrupt.

"It turned out to be it!"

Tang Bao secretly smiled bitterly that Horst was really good at picking, and he actually picked the company Arthur Andersen.

Finding out the situation of Arthur Andersen, Tang Bao naturally could not choose it as a strategic partner of Phoenix Investment Group, in case Arthur Andersen's accountants secretly instigated the senior management of Phoenix Investment Group to engage in illegal activities for personal gain, then sooner or later one day they would be implicated.

But.

Horst already had a plan, and Tang Bao couldn't interfere violently. He can't say that Arthur Andersen will have a series of accounting scandals and go bankrupt......

There is no reason to forcibly change Horst's plan, maybe no one can stop Tang Bao, but this is very detrimental to the development of the company. For a large group company like Phoenix Investment Group, it is very important to maintain clear communication and understanding with the management.

Once the employees at the bottom do not understand the boss's intentions, and even resist, then the company is only one step away from the crisis.

No rough interference. Then take the initiative and take the lead in this matter.

In the evaluation process, if Deloitte & Touche Tohmatsu wins, everyone will be happy, and he will get rid of his worries. But if Arthur Andersen won by luck, he had to intervene, not to mention the cooperation matters, but at least he had to pull Deloitte on the ship, and he could not hand over the financial audit of the Phoenix Group to Arthur Andersen, so it was very necessary to leave Deloitte to restrict. When the time comes, he can find a reason to kick Arthur Andersen out and work with Deloitte or another accounting firm.

Tang Bao had a plan.

"Well, you have a solution. However, it is also necessary to comprehensively consider the credibility of the two accounting firms and other issues, such as whether their accounting and auditing rules meet the requirements of the regulatory authorities, and do not set yourself on fire for a little profit. Tang Bao reminded slowly.

"Don't worry, boss, I understand." Horst answered.

Hearing Horst say this, Tang Bao didn't say anything more. Today, he came to the company to hand over other things to Horst, not to hang out casually.

This time.

Tang Bao felt that he had more and more trivial things, and he had to do it himself, and he felt that he was a little lacking in skills, and there might be more in the future, so he needed a personal assistant to help him deal with life chores. He came to the company to ask Horst if there was a suitable candidate.

"Horst, I need a personal assistant, do you see if there is a suitable one in the company?"

Forehead.

Horst was taken aback, Tang Bao wanted to choose a personal assistant, but it was a big deal, he didn't dare to guarantee it at will, and asked cautiously: "Boss, what aspects of work do your personal assistants need to be responsible for?" or what are the necessary conditions, such as professional education, experience, or gender, etc. ”

"The first condition is to have a tight mouth."

"Uh. Boss, that's the basic quality of a personal assistant, no owner likes his assistant to leak his own **. Horst laughed.

Tang Bao nodded.

He also knew that it was a basic quality of a personal assistant, but it was not basic, and there would be no problems.

"Well, this private person is mainly responsible for handling some trivial matters for me, taking care of being my driver, having plenty of time, being on call 24 hours a day, and being patient; Of course, if you have a background in economics or law, you don't have to force this. Well, there is no requirement for gender, as long as the appearance is correct and does not affect the perception. Tang Bao put forward his request.

Horst quickly recorded Tang Bao's request.

"Are you having trouble?"

"Well, it's okay to say anything else, but it might be a bit of a hassle in terms of time requirements......" Horst replied hesitantly, feeling that it might be a bit of a hassle to pick someone within the company. In fact, the 24-hour on-call requirement is secondary, the key is that this personal assistant is responsible for the trivial matters of life, not to assist in the work of handling company affairs, the attraction is also greatly discounted, a bit of chicken ribs, the company has the ability to take over the work of this personal assistant, I am afraid that I am reluctant to leave a decent white-collar job to run to Tang Bao as a nanny.

Tang Bao smiled.

Seems to understand the problem as well.

"Hehe, it's okay if you can't find it in the company. You can leave it to the headhunter to find ......"

"There's no need to be so troublesome, boss, as long as a recruitment announcement is issued, some people will come to scramble." Horst said with a smile.

"Forget it, it's not easy to escape the media's field of vision, but you can't go to the newspaper again because of this little thing, and find a headhunting company to do it for you."

"Okay."

Horst readily agreed.