The relationship between a company and its auditor has changed. Organisations must understand and manage risk and seek an appropriate balance between risk and opportunities.
At Grant Thornton, we have a wealth of knowledge in forensic services and can support you with issues such as dispute resolution, fraud and insurance claims.
Globalisation and company growth ambitions are driving an increase in M&A activity worldwide. We work with entrepreneurial businesses in the mid-market to help them assess the true commercial potential of their planned acquisition and understand how the purchase might serve their longer- term strategic goals.
We can support you throughout the transaction process – helping achieve the best possible outcome at the point of the transaction and in the longer term.
Our services can strengthen your business and stakeholders' confidence. You'll receive professionally verified results and insights that help you grow.
The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are a set of global accounting standards developed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) for the preparation of public company financial statements. At Grant Thornton, our IFRS advisers can help you navigate the complexity of financial reporting from IFRS 1 to IFRS 17 and IAS 1 to IAS 41.
Through our global organisation of member firms, we support both companies and individuals, providing insightful solutions to minimise the tax burden for both parties.
Using our finely tuned local knowledge, teams from our global organisation of member firms help you understand and comply with often complex and time-consuming regulations.
Dynamic businesses must continually innovate to maintain competitiveness, evolve and grow. Valuable tax reliefs are available to support innovative activities, irrespective of your tax profile.
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
Increasing regulation and investor demands for returns and transparency continue to challenge the asset management sector.
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Significant changes to the dynamic of the financial services sector in recent years have shifted the paradigms in how we work. The increased digitisation of the workforce, changes in business models, globalisation, and remote working capabilities have led to a new approach to the delivery of services.
Demographic, organisational and resourcing issues are radically changing the global healthcare industry.
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Women in BusinessThe power of diversity: can life sciences maintain their lead?
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Our Women in Business 2022 report shows that life sciences companies – in line with other mid-market businesses – are taking deliberate, necessary action to create more inclusive working practices and giving female talent access to senior positions in greater numbers than ever before.
Following world events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit, and changes to regulation and digitalisation, insurers must be alert to the challenges ahead.
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Grant Thornton’s Mathew Tierney, global head of Insurance, and Andrée Bourgon, principal for Insurance Strategy and Transactions, recently talked with John Weber of A.M. Best Co. for that company’s “Best’s Review” video series.
The life sciences industry reaches across biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical devices, medical technology as well as other industry sub-sectors.
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Women in BusinessThe power of diversity: can life sciences maintain their lead?
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Our Women in Business 2022 report shows that life sciences companies – in line with other mid-market businesses – are taking deliberate, necessary action to create more inclusive working practices and giving female talent access to senior positions in greater numbers than ever before.
We understand the commitment and scrutiny within this sector and will work with you to meet these challenges.
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‘Uneven’ is how we described the impact of COVID-19 on different mid-market industries – both when assessing initial destruction in H1 2020 and the early recovery in H2 2020. Midway through 2021, it is really encouraging to see some of that unevenness disappear and more industries participating in the overall recovery.
We help businesses navigate today’s changing private equity landscape, ensuring that you can respond to ever-changing regulations and investor demands.
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Chetan Hans
|3 min read|30 Mar 2022
While we are seeing a rise in activity for Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, what is a SPAC and what do you need to consider before entering into one?
At Grant Thornton, we aim to help you successfully read the turns of the industry and navigate this shifting landscape.
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Jessica Patel, Tax Partner at Grant Thornton UK speaks with tax partners and directors across the network to share their insights on the real estate market and some of the challenges.
The past two years saw the retail industry experience significant disruption, however there will still be opportunities to effectively reposition for future...
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Paul Olukoya
|12 Aug 2022
The PSR aims to reduce barriers to digital payments but many remain hesitant. How can payment services move forward?
Rapid change and complexity have always been hallmarks of the technology industry. And it is even more so today.
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As most businesses brace for an economic downturn, tech and telecom could see new prospects. But, to turn the headwinds to your advantage, you need to find your unique opportunities and risks.
Despite facing pressure, telecommunication companies are handling the roll-out of new network technologies and an insatiable demand for bandwidth.
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The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented levels of disruption to the global travel industry. As this evolves, it is unclear what recovery looks like.
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International Business Report (IBR)
Modern trends in business leadership
Ed Nusbaum24 Feb 2014
Business leadership: uncovering modern trends
The role of leaders in creating successful businesses and driving growth is crucial. How these leaders run their teams and make decisions can be the difference between success and failure. But do the leadership characteristics displayed by leaders vary from region to region? From developed to developing market? From higher growth to lower growth business? And how does this affect the way in which businesses operate?
In October last year, we interviewed 3,500 business leaders across 45 economies through the International Business Report (IBR) to understand what good leadership means around the world. Respondents were asked a range of questions; from whether they had ever used a coach to what they think are the most important attributes in leadership.
Key findings from the report:
two distinct styles of leaders emerged from the research; Modernists. In emerging markets like Brazil, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam we see leaders much more open to drawing on their intuition and creative instincts; the Traditionalists, generally found in European economies like France, Germany, Spain and the UK, where rank intuition and creativity as less important [read blog from Francesca Lagerberg explaining the distinction]
interestingly, these results mirror the IBR women in business results: where we see more women, we see greater openness to coaching, greater emphasis on using creativity and intuition and more willingness to delegate [read the full press release]
leaders of dynamic businesses are more likely to have used to a coach [see data visualisation tool], are more likely to use their intuition or experience to make decisions, and are more open to open to a range of improvement techniques including setting challenging goals and monitoring progress, leadership skills assessments, and developing peer networks.
three attributes of good leadership stood out globally and across all regions and sectors: integrity, positive attitude and communication
In the following video some of our senior leaders discuss the results and reveal their own leaderships styles.
