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Statutory Audit
We conduct an integrated audit, which combines the financial statement audit,independent and objective assurance on financial information, transactionsand processes.
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Limited Review
We offer services relating to reviews of historical financial informationby expressing negative assurance on such historical financial information.
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Agreed Upon Procedures
We engage with organisationsto perform specific procedures and report findings to conform to their needs.
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Financial Reporting Advisory Services (FRAS)
Our team provides timely advice on the impact of accounting changes to assist businesses in the development of an appropriate implementation roadmap.
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Business Consulting
Grant Thornton UAE provides organisations with implementable plans that drive sustainable growth strategies to grow and optimise their business performance.
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Business Risk Services
Organisations need to understand risks thoroughly to be able to manage them better. Grant Thornton UAE helps businesses achieve the best balance between minimising risk exposure, optimising profitability and developing compliance review checklists.
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Regulatory Advisory Services
Grant Thornton UAE's extensive understanding of the overarching supervisory framework within the region equips our professionals to support financial institutions comply and abide by the set of regulatory mandates throughout the rapidly evolving ecosystem.
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M&A and Transactions Advisory
Grant Thornton UAE works with organisations on transactions from start to finish, assisting with strategy, identifying risks, executing deals, and helping to unlock their potential for growth and value creation.
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Restructuring Advisory
Grant Thornton UAE is committed to realising value for shareholders, in a way that recognises and supports the interests of all stakeholders. Our solutions maximise value, provide clarity and direction, and accelerate recovery and transformation for businesses.
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Technology Advisory & Cybersecurity
IT and technology are fundamental to drive the performance of businesses. Through leveraging the power of technology, Grant Thornton UAE helps organisations define and identify growth opportunities to achieve value-driven transformation and innovation.
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Forensics
Fraud and corruption pose a growing challenge worldwide. As the commercial landscape changes, an increasingly regulated environment requires stringent governance and compliance processes. Grant Thornton UAE helps organisations navigate challenges and crisis with a hands-on approach coupled with the use of technology.
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ESG Services
The Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) agenda has gained significant traction over the years, to become one of the key strategic aspects of any business. It is imperative that all organisations, irrespective of industry sector, engage with their stakeholders and prioritise ESG practices to unlock sustainable growth opportunities.
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Corporate Tax
Our diversified team of corporate tax subject matter experts combines a perfect blend of international experience across several industry sectors, technical expertise, and commercial nuances with a commitment to deliver exceptional value to your business.
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VAT
The VAT team at Grant Thornton is well versed with the VAT Laws applicable across the region and holds valuable experience and professional accreditation in assisting clients across diverse industries to comply with the VAT obligations.
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Transfer Pricing
Grant Thornton UAE assists its clients in providing transfer pricing solutions that are implementable and operational, considering the facts and concerns of its clients.
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International Tax and Tax Due Diligence
Grant Thornton UAE supports multinational groups to optimise their tax structures. We can also assist businesses in analysing existing group transactions and inter-group supplies, as well as advising on potential implications of various taxes to facilitate an efficient Group tax structure.
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Economic Substance Requirements
Economic Substance rules were introduced in the UAE in 2019, requiring UAE businesses that undertake certain ‘Relevant Activities’ to maintain and demonstrate adequate substance.
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Customs and International Trade
The team at Grant Thornton is positioned centrally to assist the businesses with global cross-border tax structuring, planning and compliance needs.
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Excise Tax
We provide Excise Tax related advisory and compliance services to the producer, importer, and the storekeeper of excisable goods
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Incorporation and PRO
We provide guidance and help with setting up new entities in the UAE’s mainland and all the UAE free zones, as well as re-domiciliation of companies in the UAE. Our team drafts the needed legal documents and interacts with government authorities on various regulatory matters.
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HR & Payroll Services
HR & Payroll Services
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Outsourcing Advisory Services
Outsourcing Advisory Services
Someone once asked me, are you living to work? An interesting question, I thought.
This made me start thinking about work life balance and whether it truly exists in the fast paced working environment. The developments of technology and processing of information has resulted in a transformed world that is moving quicker than ever before, impacting both our personal and professional life. This brings greater strain to balance both aspects of our life to define the reason of our existence, and fulfillment of our dreams and aspirations. Should our personal and professional life be seen as interlinked and interchanging – whereby one cannot survive unless succinct together?
When we begin our professional careers, we endeavor to progress up the corporate ladder as quickly as we can, because not only does this bring professional satisfaction it also brings us closer to our personal goals. As a result many professionals sacrifice their personal lives working harder than many of their colleagues or peers - so could it be said the greater the sacrifice, the greater the reward? But what do we compromise as a result? Is there really such as thing as work life balance or is it used as an employee brand tool? Work does become life for many, who strive to make a difference and compete in excelling in their careers. Yet without passion for what we do, there can never be the balance and true definition of happiness in our existence.
A contributor to the Harvard Business Review blog wrote “climbing the organisational ladder often requires employees to work long hours and deal with difficult and complex issues. A common dilemma for many people is how they manage all of the competing demands in work and life and avoid letting any negative effects of work spill over into their personal lives”.
Considering the above, I allude to my original question – is work life balance a myth? Does favoring our personal life, affect your professional life and vice versa? Do people begin to resent work not because they don’t enjoy their profession, but for what it ‘stripes’ them of personally to earn it?
I would agree that there is no such thing as work life ‘balance’, but that work must be seen as a fundament of life, a need that fulfills our wants, a need that allows us to fulfill the wants of our loved ones, allows us to set goals – personally and professionally. It should not been seen as a career, or a means to an end, but an innate part of life that without, the ‘life’ element of the balance becomes difficult to fulfil.
When you lead a project, you determine what good would look like. The same should apply for life – it is about understanding and determining what success looks like for you as an individual. This will naturally evolve as you progress through the phase of life. The two must go hand in hand and be managed in parallel as I believe that one cannot survive without the other.
As the Managing Partner of Grant Thornton, my commitment to my team and family is equally as important. Our firm and their families are our family and we must all collectively support our professional commitments and our obligations to our family - our core sense of purpose and happiness.
