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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International audits require common sense as well as technical expertise.
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Our member firm IFRS advisers can help you navigate the complexity of the Standards so you can focus your time and effort on running your business.
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We apply our global audit methodology through an integrated set of software tools known as the Voyager suite.
Ambitious organisations need to consider their tax affairs carefully to gain trust and stay ahead of their competitors.
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Growing businesses need strong tax management to meet current and future tax liabilities and we can help you achieve this, whatever challenges you face.
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We have the insight and agility to create the strategies you need to respond quickly to ever-changing tax laws.
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In a globalised world, businesses must work seamlessly across borders. Organisations operate in multiple countries and view international expansion as a strategic objective.
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With more goods and services crossing national borders than ever before, you may be facing indirect tax obligations in many countries – even those where your customer is located.
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The laws surrounding transfer pricing are becoming ever more complex, as tax affairs of multinational companies are facing scrutiny from media, regulators and the public.
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As organisations grow, back office processes and meeting reporting requirements across multiple jurisdictions can become a distraction. We remove the burden of back office operations and worries about compliance to enable you to focus on growth.
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We have considerable expertise in advising the business services sector gained through working with recruitment, facilities management, logistics, printing,...
This shift to a consumer-led economy brings challenges and opportunities for the industry. We can help deliver your strategies for both.
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IBR
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.
IFRS
Effective Date of Amendments to IFRS 10 and IAS 28
Grant Thornton International Ltd comments on ED/2015/7 Effective Date of Amendments to IFRS 10 and IAS 28
IFRS
Clarifications to IFRS 15
Grant Thornton International Ltd comments on IASB ED/2015/6 Clarifications to IFRS 15
IFRS
Proposed Amendments to IAS 19 and IFRIC 14
Grant Thornton International Ltd comments on ED/2015/5: Proposed amendments to IAS 19 and IFRIC 14
GrowthiQ
The new customer mindset
To succeed in the B2B sharing economy, businesses need to understand what drives customers who are willing to use crowdsourced and automated services LiquidSpace specialises in renting out spare office space in existing businesses by the hour, the month or longer. Users can hire space via the company’s app and be sitting in a business’s boardroom within minutes. They can add their own office space to the inventory too.
Women in business
The value of diversity
Companies with diverse executive boards outperform peers run by all-male boards according to new research from Grant Thornton. The study, which covers listed companies in India, UK and US, estimates the opportunity cost for companies with male-only executive boards (in terms of lower returns on assets) at a staggering US$655 billion in 2014
IBR
Cyber attacks cost global business $300bn+
New research from Grant Thornton reveals that cyber attacks are taking a serious toll on business, with the total cost of attacks globally estimated to be at least US$315bn* over the past 12 months. The Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR), a global survey of 2,500 business leaders in 35 economies, reveals that more than one in six businesses surveyed faced a cyber attack in the past year. With high-profile security breaches and hacks becoming more prevalent, nearly half of firms are putting themselves in the firing line with no comprehensive strategy to prevent digital crime.
Transfer pricing
Transfer pricing guide
More and more fiscal authorities continue to develop their transfer pricing laws. The principles are common, although interpretations differ from one tax authority to another.
Global Dynamism Index (GDI)
Where to grow your business
Globalisation is accelerating. While businesses are looking to unlock new revenue streams and governments are encouraging economic diversification, the increased connectivity of the digital age is lowering barriers to entry, opening up more international growth opportunities for dynamic businesses.
International expansion
Growing beyond borders
Our International Business Report with insights gained from in-depth interviews with five senior female executives from around the world, this report looks at the role of education in improving female participation and how this can help boost business growth.
Real estate and construction
Uncovering opportunities for overseas investment
Soft power and gut instinct is driving an estimated US$250bn per year in overseas real estate investment, showing that feeling rather than data analysis determines many investment decisions.
IFRS
Example Financial Statements 2015
The preparation of financial statements in accordance with IFRS is challenging. Each year the requirements are changing as a result of new standards or amendments that become effective. These changes have the potential to significantly impact both the presentation of the primary statements and the accompanying disclosures. This illustrative set of example financial statements demonstrates good practice in the application of the presentation and disclosure requirements of IFRS for year-end reporters. It reflects changes in IFRS that are effective for the year ending 31 December 2015.
GrowthiQ
Keeping it in the family
Choosing the right leader for your business is fundamental to its long-term success. So why are so many family firms not planning for succession effectively?
GrowthiQ
The Indian opportunity
Aston Manor Cider, one of the world’s largest independent cider producers, is no stranger to the export market. The UK-based company’s specialty beverage is available in more than 20 countries including the USA, Russia and a number of African nations
Blog
Volatility: opportunity or challenge?
The hospitality and tourism industry is hotwired into the global economy; how businesses in the sector prepare for and respond to economic shocks is critical to long-term growth prospects.
Tax
BEPS: Businesses call for clarity
Three quarters of business leaders would pay more taxes in exchange for greater clarity from authorities on what is acceptable. And while few expect a global agreement any time soon, the majority would like to see their governments take unilateral action to help achieve this aim.