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If you are planning on doing business in Singapore, this guide provides an overview of Singapore's investment environment. Learn more about common issues companies might face when expanding into Singapore and get insights on navigating the country's legal, accounting and tax landscape.
FRS 109 introduces a new approach for financial asset classification; a more forward-looking expected loss model; and major new requirements on hedge accounting.
Despite a global downturn in business optimism, confidence is buoyant in ASEAN, reaching the highest level ever recorded by the IBR in Q2 2018.
The Accounting Standards Council Singapore issued Financial Reporting Standards FRS 115, Revenue from Contracts with Customers and aligns the adoption of revenue recognition standards in Singapore to the global adoption of new revenue recognition standards under IFRS and US GAAP.
International taxation is undergoing the biggest shake-up for a generation. The already complex world of transfer pricing is at the front and centre of these disruptive changes, both in the rules that govern it and in the heightened scrutiny it now faces.
Our ‘IFRS Viewpoint’ series provides insights from our global IFRS team on applying IFRSs in challenging situations. Each edition will focus on an area where the Standards have proved difficult to apply or lack guidance.
The global mobility environment is changing rapidly. Businesses and their employees working internationally are faced with a complex web of regulations and laws.
Todays Boards are under increasing pressure from regulators and customers alike to engage more broadly with stakeholders and build their views and expectations into the strategy and management of the business.
Nobody thought that complying with the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) transfer pricing analysis and documentation demands would be easy.
Business optimism across Asia Pacific is down from its recent peak in the first part of 2018, according to global research from Grant Thornton’s International Business Report (IBR).
Significant changes to Singapore’s Goods and Services Tax (‘‘GST’’) system were announced by Finance Minister Heng in the recent 2018 Budget.
The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (“IRAS”) released its 5th edition Transfer Pricing Guidelines (“TPG”) on 23 February 2018. The revised TPG provides guidance on the implementation of the transfer pricing (“TP”) related amendments made to the Income Tax Act (“ITA”) on 26 October 2017.
The last year has seen global business take one step forward but one step back when it comes to gender diversity in leadership.
The latest global survey findings from our International Business Report (IBR) shows that despite the rise of automation and record global business optimism (net 58%) businesses will turn to people in 2018 to meet swelling order books. Plans to hire more workers are at their highest level in a decade.
Cross-border merger and acquisition opportunities are increasing as healthy company financials in many economies drive an appetite for deals.
Our publication, ‘Navigating the Changes to International Reporting Standards’, is designed to give Chief Financial Officers a high-level awareness of these recent changes to IFRS.
