The gender diversity issue has been on the business agenda for many years now, yet a third of businesses still have no women at a senior management level. Somewhere there is a disconnect.
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Women in business: turning promise into practice
IFRS
Inventory discounts and rebates
This IFRS Viewpoint considers how a purchaser accounts for discounts and rebates when buying inventory.
IBR
The future of Asia-Pacific
Drawing on interviews from our IBR and other sources this report explores the opportunities and challenges for business growth in Asia-Pacific. The slowdown in China, regional tensions and ageing populations emerge as key threats to regional growth prospects, while businesses are excited by the Trans-Pacific Partnership and increased ASEAN cooperation.
Blog
Cleantech under the spotlight in build-up to Paris talks
The dramatic and sustained drop in the global oil price led to a certain amount of doom mongering around the cleantech sector. The fear, of course, was that cheaper fossil fuels would make clean energy investments less competitive.
IFRS
IFRS News - Q4 2015
IFRS News is your quarterly update on all things relating to International Financial Reporting Standards. We’ll bring you up to speed on topical issues, provide comment and points of view and give you a summary of any significant developments.
Tax
What the tax function of today needs to know for tomorrow
The practical impact of the OECDs recommendations and the key issues that should be on your radar as a tax function and head of tax.
GrowthiQ
Solving the productivity puzzle
As productivity rates fall, businesses and governments need to find new ways to make inputs work harder if living standards are to be maintained.
IBR
China slowdown hits trading partners
New research from Grant Thornton’s International Business Report (IBR) reveals the extent to which contagion caused by China’s economic slowdown is spreading to businesses around the world. Business confidence and expectations for revenue and exports are down, not just in China’s near neighbours, but in several major economies which count on the world’s second biggest economy as a major trading partner.
Technology
Building tomorrow's $bn businesses
Tomorrow, we can expect new technologies enabling the internet of things to create opportunities for future fast-growth companies. Some will become industry leaders – the Xiaomis and Ubers of tomorrow. Many more will fail – either because their offering wasn’t differentiated enough, or because their management made the wrong decisions.
IFRS
Acquisition of investment properties
This IFRS viewpoint addresses whether to treat the acquisition of an investment property as an asset purchase or a business combination. This is an important issue because the IFRS accounting requirements for a business combination are very different from asset purchases.
Women in business
The full potential of the Downton Abbey women
Comparison with evolution of women in Downton Abbey shows companies lagging behind society in terms of gender diversity.
Blog
A good day for international expansion
5 October 2015 was a good day for companies operating across borders, with agreements on global transfer pricing rules (Base Erosion Profit Sharing or BEPS) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
GrowthiQ
How to be cyber-secure
Cyber-attacks are set to grow in their number and nature; those companies that embed security measures into their culture will be most successful at fending them off, says Paul Jacobs
Tax
Big shake-up in international tax rules
So will the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action Plan result in a tax system that’s fairer, more efficient and more understandable?
IFRS
Related party loans at below-market interest rates
This IFRS viewpoint provides a framework for accounting for loans made by an entity to a related party that are at below-market levels of interest.