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Vocabulary exercise 2 Give the Chinese equivalents to the following English terms. public awareness regulatory changes international assignment global recruitment economic downturn advisory service reward scheme talent management Give the English equivalents to the following Chinese terms. 员工离职 涨薪 安然丑闻 甄别程序 新员工 职业阶梯 董事会主席 公司结构 Keys 公众认识 政策变动 海外任务 全球招聘 经济萧条 咨询服务 奖励机制 英才管理 staff turnover pay rises the Enron scandal selection procedure raw recruits career ladder board director organizational structure Comprehension Comprehension exercise 1 Answer the following questions according to the text. What is the impact of the Enron scandal on accountancy firms? What is the biggest challenge that big companies are faced with in terms of recruitment? What might account for this lack of skilled employees? What are the added problems for accountancy firms in recruitment? What measures are the accountancy firms taking to respond to the lack of talents? What can accountancy firms do to retain good employees? What can other companies copy from the Big Four in terms of talent management? What are the advantages of partnerships in accounting? What are the disadvantages of partnerships in accounting? According to the author of Mobilising Minds, what is an ideal corporate organization like? Keys The scandal added unwanted colour to this grey profession. Since then the surviving titans of accountancy—Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), also known as the Big Four—have mostly retreated back into the shadows of public awareness. There are never enough skilled or promising people to hire. There are two main reasons. For one thing, the competition for the best employees is getting intensifies among companies; for another, the pool of available talent is getting smaller. First, job cuts earlier in the decade created a shortfall of people now; second, there is a greater demand for their services and staff due to regulatory chang