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Understand how puts, calls, and earn-outs can create significant financial risks following M&A transactions and impact financial statements, liquidity, and valuation.
Understand how AI is transforming SOX testing and internal auditing, revealing inconsistencies between documented controls, data, and operations, and strengthening governance and risk management.
Artificial intelligence is already part of business strategies. Find out how governance, trust, risk management, and measuring results help organizations turn AI investments into sustainable value.
Five questions HRDs can ask to make their people model more agile
Remote or hybrid working models are the new norm, say many employers — and research shows most employees also prefer to work in this way. But, these opportunities must be balanced with the potential risks. Dominic Merlin-Cone looks at the key issues.
The mid-market’s real prioritisation of sustainability not only reflects the growing expectation of stakeholders but the forward-thinking nature of this entrepreneurial segment.
Sustainability actions have become a business imperative. Bloomberg projections indicate that global ESG assets by 2025 will account for more than a third of all projected assets under management, accounting for $53 trillion of the $140.5 trillion total.
Mid-market businesses around the world want to accelerate their ESG and sustainability journey. But they’re going to need support to do so.
Across the global economy, governments are becoming more protectionist. Businesses are seeing rising challenges, and finance heads are dealing with a range of new measures, including new requirements and legislations around tax and compliance.
The International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee (the IFRIC), a committee of the International Accounting Standards Board) received a request addressing how a customer should account for costs of configuring or customising a supplier’s application software in a Cloud Computing or Software as a Service (SaaS) arrangement.
The ESG and Publicly Traded Companies research carried out by Grant Thornton Brasil, XP Inc. and Fundação Dom Cabral answered questions related to five pillars: Strategy and Business, Structure and management, Policies and practices, Disclosure of information and Investor relations
The evaluation of machinery and equipment in an industrial plant is a process of data collection and calculation of values that brings direct and indirect benefits to the company.
Digital advances and the need for governance, fiscal and accounting planning are increasingly coming into the field.
The digital transformation has changed the characteristics of the financial industry, which has been undergoing significant changes, especially in the last decade, with the emergence of several institutions that are part of the financial system ecosystem: payment companies, digital banks, credit fintechs , market information and financial education companies, investment platforms, among others.
In 2021, empathy is emerging as a key leadership trait, offering a route to more productive, innovative business. And while different cultures have different approaches to empathetic leadership, there are practical steps any business can take to grow empathy within their teams.
Demystifying psychological safety, revealing the practical application behind the complex language surrounding it, is vital if leaders are going to succeed in creating an inclusive working environment.
With the opening up of the global labour market thanks to changes in working practices and developments in technology, opportunities to break into new markets and service new customers await.
In recent years, environmental and social issues have come to be considered essential in risk analysis and investment decisions.
As markets emerge from COVID-19 lockdowns, the financial services sector is taking stock of the pandemic’s impact, and future working practices.