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A SWING THROUGH SOUTH AMERICA By Malcolm M. Devore with photography by the author One of the more interesting assignments I have had since coming to the Executive Office in 1961 has been our General Motors engagement. The size and scope of operations of this client literally staggers the imagination: for the last several years it has produced and sold as many automobiles and trucks as all other U.S. manufacturers combined; its net income for 1964, $1.7 billion, is an all-time record for any U.S. corporation. One of the personal rewards to me has been the opportunity of working with a number of the top management people in General Motors; men of obvious competence and, as I have found out, of equally high personal qualities. It is a privilege to count them among my friends. My professional role in the General Motors engagement is that of over-all supervision. In this I am assisted by a partner resident in Detroit and a second partner resident in New York; Detroit and New York are, as you might suspect, the two principal locations with which we are concerned, although many of our domestic and foreign offices participate in their own areas. The engagement offers an exhilarating professional challenge, and this is not in the least diminished by its pleasant aspects—such as the annual visits I make to 8 General Motors overseas. Picture travel ads for England, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Italy, and you can see what I mean. That was where I went in 1963. In 1964 I visited Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, and Peru. More properly I should say "we visited," as my wife joined me. Needless to say, this has made the trips more pleasant for me and I know she has enjoyed them also. This is probably an appropriate time to warn my readers that if any one of them in the years ahead should be in the same position I am now in, and should then visit the overseas locations of General Motors, he should be prepared to have his associates describe his hardworking travels as "junkets." For myself, I am content to make my defense (though I fiercely contend none is necessary) by pointing out that in the first thirty-three working days of our 1963 trip I visited thirty individual locations of General Motors Corporation, International Harvester Corporation (another valued client of our Firm), and of offices of Deloitte, Plender, Haskins & Sells and other firms associated with us, reviewed working papers on the prior year's engagements, conferred with client officials
Object Description
Title |
Swing through South America |
Author |
Devore, Malcolm M. |
Subject |
South America -- Description and travel South America -- Economic conditions |
Geographic Location |
South America |
Citation |
H&S Reports, Vol. 02, (1965 spring), p. 08-12 |
Date-Issued | 1965 |
Source | Originally published by: Haskins & Sells |
Rights | Copyright and permission to republish held by: Deloitte |
Type | Text |
Format | PDF page image with corrected OCR scanned at 400 dpi |
Collection | Deloitte Digital Collection |
Digital Publisher | University of Mississippi Library. Accounting Collection |
Date-Digitally Created | 2010 |
Language | eng |
Identifier | HSReports_1965_Spring-p8-12 |