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Business consulting services
Our business consulting services can help you improve your operational performance and productivity, adding value throughout your growth life cycle.
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Business process solutions
We can help you identify, understand and manage potential risks to safeguard your business and comply with regulatory requirements.
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Business risk services
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.
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Cybersecurity
As organisations become increasingly dependent on digital technology, the opportunities for cyber criminals continue to grow.
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Forensic and investigation services
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.
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Mergers and acquisitions
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.
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Recovery and reorganisation
Workable solutions to maximise your value and deliver sustainable recovery
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Transactional advisory services
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.
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Valuations
We provide a wide range of services to recovery and reorganisation professionals, companies and their stakeholders.
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IFRS
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.
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Audit quality monitoring
Having a robust process of quality control is one of the most effective ways to guarantee we deliver high-quality services to our clients.
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Global audit technology
We apply our global audit methodology through an integrated set of software tools known as the Voyager suite.
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Corporate and business tax
Our trusted teams can prepare corporate tax files and ruling requests, support you with deferrals, accounting procedures and legitimate tax benefits.
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Direct international tax
Our teams have in-depth knowledge of the relationship between domestic and international tax laws.
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Global mobility services
Through our global organisation of member firms, we support both companies and individuals, providing insightful solutions to minimise the tax burden for both parties.
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Indirect international tax
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.
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Innovation and investment incentives
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.
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Private client services
Our solutions include dealing with emigration and tax mitigation on the income and capital growth of overseas assets.
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Transfer pricing
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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Tax policy
Tax policies are constantly evolving and there are a number of complex changes on the horizon that could significantly affect your business.
Putting the Blueprint into practice
Over the last 12 months, our women in business research has drilled down into the gender diversity stats of mid-market organisations around the world, looking at how the numbers are changing, and most importantly, what businesses are doing to make them change.
Women in Business 2020: Putting the Blueprint into practice highlights the global trends where numbers appear to be leveling out, the success stories in regions such as Latin America and Africa where good progress is being made, and the senior roles most likely to be held by women. It also draws out the most popular gender equality initiatives being put in place, many of which mirror the recommendations made in our 2019 Blueprint for Action.
Proportion of women in senior management globally over the last 16 years
- The percentage of women in senior management in 2020 is almost exactly the same as last year.
- The proportion of companies with at least one woman in senior management around the world has remained steady, sitting at 87%.
- 2019 saw an increase, so our data represents a leveling off of prior progress. This could be on the back of the wave of attention caused by #MeToo and gender pay gap reporting.
Top five regions by proportion of women in senior management, 2020 versus 2019
- There has been a jump in Africa, Latin America, and ASEAN.
- Last year’s success story Eastern Europe has seen further improvement.
- Latin America experienced the biggest increase in the proportion of women in senior management, climbing by eight percentage points to 33%.
- APAC has the lowest figure, with 17% of senior managers in the region being female.
Proportion of women in specific roles, 2020 versus 2019
- 2020 sees an encouraging uptick in women at CEO level but decline at CFO, a position in which women have traditionally been strong.
- It is possible that the shift reflects a movement within the same sub-set of female directors, winning promotions and moving role from CFO to CEO.
- Senior women are most likely to work as HR director, and least likely to be a partner at a business, with just 7% of partners being female.
Most common actions being taken by businesses around the world to achieve gender parity
- Ensuring equal access to developmental work opportunities and creating an inclusive culture are the most popular initiatives aimed at improving gender diversity at 34%.
- Offering unconscious bias training is the least common initiative.
- All actions have increased in popularity since 2019, with linking senior management reward to progress on gender diversity rising the most in the last year.
- Despite all these positive initiatives, 22% of businesses globally still take no action to ensure gender diversity.