Digital risk
How to better manage digital risk
Cyber threats continue to soar. So what’s the solution? Our advice is to build a wider ‘digital risk’ function which integrates data privacy and cyber security. But where should you start?
IFRS
Insights into IFRS 16
Are you ready for IFRS 16? This series of insights will help you prepare.
Tax
Say goodbye to the arm’s length principle
After a slow and tentative start, the OECD’s push for a solution on how to allocate and tax the profits from digital business is gathering momentum.
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International Business Report (IBR)
TMT outlook: Can tech spend buoyancy keep the industry airborne?
Uncertainty is mounting for technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) businesses amidst a turbulent economic and political backdrop, according to the latest research from Grant Thornton. But with businesses in other industries increasingly looking to new technologies as the path to transformation, this is also a time of opportunity. So how can the TMT industry ride out the turbulence and thrive?
- Francesca Lagerberg to address global tax policy conference
Francesca Lagerberg, global leader for tax services at Grant Thornton International Ltd, will speak before the Global Tax Policy Conference in Dublin, 9-11 March on The power of tax data – who owns it and who can demand it? The event is sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School and the Irish Tax institute.
Other speakers will include Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration at the OECD; Prof. Brian J. Arnold, Senior Adviser, Canadian Tax Foundation; Ronald Dickel, vice president of Finance and director of Global Tax and Trade at Intel Corporation; Simon Henry, Chief Financial Officer of Royal Dutch Shell plc; and Will Morris, Director, Global Tax Policy, in General Electric's corporate tax department.
In addition to her role as the global leader for tax services at Grant Thornton International Ltd, one of the largest global accounting organization with $4.7 billion in revenues and operations in 130 countries, Francesca also serves as a member of the Grant Thornton global leadership team and is responsible for Grant Thornton European member firms and global legal issues. She is the only woman currently running a global tax practice amongst the six largest global accounting organizations.
