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Accounting Advisory
Our accounting advisory team help businesses meet their complex financial reporting requirements.…
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Payroll
Our team can handle your payroll processing needs to help you reduce cost and saves time so that you can…
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Managed accounting and bookkeeping
Outsourcing the financial reporting function is a growing trend among middle market and startup…
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Accounting Advisory
Our team helps companies keep up with changes to international and domestic financial reporting…
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Crypto Accounting Advisory Service
Our team can help you explore appropriate accounting treatment for accounting for holdings in…
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ESG Reporting and Accounting
As part of our ESG and Sustainability Services, our team will work with you on various aspects of ESG…
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Expected Credit Loss
Our team of ECL modelling specialists combine help clients implement provisioning…
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Finance Transformation
Our Finance Transformation services are designed to challenge the status quo and enable your finance team…
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Managed Accounting and Bookkeeping Services
Outsourcing the financial reporting function is a growing trend among middle market and startup…
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Business Tax Advisory
Our business tax team can help you navigate the international tax landscape, grow through mergers and acquisitions, or plan an exit strategy.
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Corporate Finance
Our corporate finance team helps companies with capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, strategic joint ventures, special situations and more.
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Financial Due Diligence
From exploring the strategic options available to businesses and shareholders through to advising and project managing the chosen solution, our team provide…
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Valuations
Our valuation specialists blend technical expertise with a pragmatic outlook to deliver support in financial reporting, transactions, restructuring, and disputes.

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Sustainability with the ARC framework
Backed by the CTC Grant, businesses can tap on the ARC Framework to gain access to sustainability internally, transform business processes, redefine job roles for…

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Business Tax Advisory
Our business tax team can help you navigate the international tax landscape, grow through mergers…
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Corporate Tax Compliance
Our corporate tax teams prepare corporate tax files and ruling requests, support you with…
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Tax Governance
Our Tax Governance Services are designed to assist organisations in establishing effective tax…
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Goods and Services Tax
Our GST team supports organisations throughout the entire business life-cycle. We can help with GST…
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Transfer Pricing
Our Transfer Pricing team advises clients on their transfer pricing matters on and end-to-end basis…
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Employer Solutions
Our Employer Solutions team helps businesses remain compliant in Singapore as well as globally as a…
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Private Client Services
Our private client services team provides a comprehensive cross section of advisory services to high…
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Welfare and benefits
We believe that a thriving team is one where each individual feels valued, fulfilled, and empowered to…
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Career development
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Businesses resilient in face of growth challenges
Economic conditions began to deteriorate in the second half of 2015 leading the IMF to lower its estimates for global growth from 3.8% to 3.6%. The slowdown of the Chinese economy has contributed to stock market volatility and falling commodity prices. Despite these economic uncertainties, global business optimism stands at net 36% versus 35% one year ago. The Fed’s interest rate rise and tightening stance on monetary policy, hit US business optimism on concerns over exports. 2016 is shaping up to be an interesting year given recent stock market and oil price volatility. Grant Thornton’s International Business Review (IBR) will provide quarterly insight into business sentiment in these turbulent times.
The IBR draws on more than 10,000 interviews with business leaders and international economic forecast data, this latest report explores the growth drivers and constraints facing dynamic businesses over the next 12 months including economic uncertainty, export growth, and business propensity to reinvest among other indicators.
- Net 36% of businesses globally are optimistic about their local economy up slightly from this time last year.
- Businesses worldwide are reporting low export expectations and The Federal Reserve interest rate hike hurt US business export expectations especially hard in the fourth quarter.
- Worldwide expectation of an increase in infrastructure and R&D investment has fallen this year compared to last, with emerging market sentiment weighing on forecasts.
- Economic uncertainty is set to be the biggest concern for global business in 2016, with red tape and a lack of skilled workers also weighing on the minds of leaders.
- Global employment expectation for the coming 12 months has remained broadly stable over the past year.