{"id":164,"date":"2007-06-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azlro.org\/5\/2007\/06\/25\/ford-retains-kpmg-to-have-a-look-at-jags-and-rovers-books\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T00:00:00","slug":"ford-retains-kpmg-to-have-a-look-at-jags-and-rovers-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/ford-retains-kpmg-to-have-a-look-at-jags-and-rovers-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford retains KPMG to have a look at Jag&#8217;s and Rover&#8217;s books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ford isn\u2019t wasting any time or taking any chances with the sale of Jaguar and Land Rover. The Blue Oval has hired accounting firm KPMG to go over the English carmakers\u2019 books to get them in shape for sale. Specifically, KPMG is tasked with getting the automaker\u2019s financial paperwork ready for examination by potential buyers, and to give \u2018a clear picture of Jaguar and Land Rover\u2019s performance as businesses separate from the influence of Ford.\u2019 KMPG\u2019s duties will also include looking at the companies\u2019 pension liabilities. Through it all, Ford has still not declared outright whether it actually intends to sell the brands.<\/p>\n<p>[source: <a href='http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/06\/25\/ford-retains-kpmg-to-have-a-look-at-jags-and-rovers-books\/'>autoblog.com<\/a> and <a href='http:\/\/www.autonews.com'>autonews.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford isn\u2019t wasting any time or taking any chances with the sale of Jaguar and Land Rover. The Blue Oval has hired accounting firm KPMG to go over the English carmakers\u2019 books to get them in shape for sale. Specifically, KPMG is tasked with getting the automaker\u2019s financial paperwork ready for examination by potential buyers, and to give \u2018a clear picture of Jaguar and Land Rover\u2019s performance as businesses separate from the influence of Ford.\u2019 KMPG\u2019s duties will also include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}