YOUR BUSINESS IS GROWING. SO ARE WE. Grant Thornton UAE is delighted to welcome ten new Partners, strengthening our leadership and reinforcing our commitment to delivering exceptional service to our clients. We remain focused on raising the bar to meet your evolving needs.
The latest insight in our risk and resilience series outlines how organisations can strengthen contractual readiness and protect their position under UAE law. This series is developed to support business leaders to build confidence, resilience and continuity through disruption.
In the next part of our risk and resilience series, we focus on identifying critical services, understanding dependencies and building decision‑making that holds under sustained pressure. This series is developed to support business leaders to build confidence, resilience and continuity through disruption.
As a member of Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD), and in response to an assessment of the UAE’s tax framework by the European Union Code of Conduct Group, the UAE has committed to ensuring standards related to Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) are implemented.
Fortunately, our understanding of how to address the challenges of COVID-19 is improving every day. Our medical and scientific communities are learning and adopting new strategies to deal with the current global crisis, as are the world's policymakers.
In a race against time, governments are issuing directives on effective precautions against the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) globally to prepare for what is to come as peak-virus over the next 4 to 6 weeks.
Let’s call a meeting to discuss COVID-19 epidemic risk management. No, let's not. Calling a meeting creates a state of panic and promotes congregating in groups at a time when a virus can be transmitted to two people from one infected person- it is not a good idea. What is, however, is having team leaders, risk champions, business continuity professionals, Human Resources, and communications teams collaborate online and agree on a comprehensive strategy to manage the risk and here is how to do it.
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.
The disappearance of LIBOR will not only impact UK but it is expected to have worldwide repercussions
The Insurance Authority recently released Circular No. (21) of 2019 regarding 2020 Reporting Requirements for All Insurance Companies Operating in the UAE.
The DEWS (DIFC Employee Workplace Savings) Plan is a progressive End-of-service Benefit Plan introduced within the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) to restructure the current End-of-service Gratuity Plan into a funded and professionally managed Defined Contribution Plan.
As a member of Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD), and in response to an assessment of the UAE’s tax framework by the European Union Code of Conduct Group, the UAE has committed to ensuring standards related to Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) are implemented.
The member firms within Grant Thornton International Ltd (GTIL) have extensive expertise in the application of IFRS. GTIL, through its IFRS team, develops guidance that supports its member firms’ commitment to high quality, consistent application of IFRS and is pleased to share these insights by publishing ‘Example Interim Consolidated Financial Statements 2020'.
We, at Grant Thornton UAE (“GT”), believe in fostering gender balance in the workforce, as a matter of purpose. We’ve seen the positive, tangible effects when organizations put this view into action and how this translates into a bottom-line enhancing position.
FIs need to re-focus their businesses and reconsider strategies to respond to the large amount of regulation, in an economic environment that is fundamentally more restraining. This can be achieved via five key areas of transformation for 2020 and beyond.
The world’s leading survey of mid-market companies, Grant Thornton’s IBR, once again provides vital insight into the health of the global mid-market. These results for H1 2019 reflect the views of nearly 5,000 mid-market companies across 30+ countries interviewed in May and June of this year.
The global economic cycle has peaked and businesses face a more downbeat global economy in 2019. However, while the headlines appear daunting, there are good reasons for business leaders to hold their nerve.
With the Chinese financial services industry entering international jurisdictions, where does Islamic Finance fall in it's path of growth?
Our annual report on women in business reveals that introducing policies alone is not enough to drive real progress, and that gender diversity gaps remain at a leadership level. If policy is not driving more women to the top, despite widespread use, then what will?