Ganesh Swami

I’m pretty exhausted from being up for almost 22 hours yesterday. Six of those were spent writing everything I had learnt in the last four months. They’re called exams.

A major chunk of the financial accounting exam was on justifying certain business decisions, or making suggestions to the CEO as his financial advisor. One of those questions I found really interesting:

You are the CEO of a mid-sized company. It’s typical to tie senior manager’s compensation with the performance of their respective divisions. Would you base the compensation based on the cash flow from operations, or on the net income? Give the pros and cons of each method.

At a networking event a while back, I was talking to a strategy consultant from the Monitor Group. This guy was hired right out of the engineering undergraduate program at the UofT. The consultant lifestyle includes a lot of travel, long hours of work and interacting with very smart people. Anyways, I’ve done some research and compiled a list of consulting companies (primarily in North America.) Should I be looking for a job, this would be the list I would start with. Hope it’s useful for others as well.

• Accenture
• Bain and Company
• BearingPoint
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• Boston Consulting Group
• Capgemini
• Computer Sciences Corporation
• Convergys Corporation
• Deloitte Consulting
• First Consulting Group
• Gartner
• IBM Global Services
• Infosys
• McKinsey & Company
• Monitor
• Novell
• Tata Consultancy Services
• Unisys Corporation
• Wipro

You can get a more comprehensive list from WetFeet or Wikipedia.