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Financial administration
An accurate financial administration provides you with the information you need to take the right decisions. The big advantage of a digital financial administration is that it provides insight into your most important financial processes at any time, whether this is the invoices, salary payments or bank changes.
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Financial insight
You want to take the right decisions, based on trustworthy and clear management information. You want to have access to all your financial data, 24/7, in order to determine your position and be able to adjust where necessary.
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Global compliance partnering
Outsourced compliance services comprises the total financial compliance of your business, in accounting, financial reporting, payroll, legal and various tax reporting obligations. We can make sure you don’t have to worry.
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Impact House by Grant Thornton
Building sustainability and social impact. That sounds good. But how do you go about it in the complex world of stakeholders, regulations and frameworks and changing demands from clients and society? How do you deal with important issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss?
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Business risk services
Minimize risk, maximize predictability, and execution Good insights help you look further ahead and adapt faster. Whether you require outsourced or co-procured internal audit services and expertise to address a specific technology, cyber or regulatory challenge, we provide a turnkey and reliable solution.
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Corporate finance
Finding a suitable match at the most optimum terms. That, in a nutshell, aptly describes the objective of mergers and acquisitions. To most businesses mergers or acquisitions are not standard daily practice. It is, however, for the professionals at Grant Thornton! Seeking their services will add value instantly.
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Cyber risk services
What should I be doing first if my data has been kidnapped? Have I taken the right precautions for protecting my data or am I putting too much effort into just one of the risks? And how do I quickly detect intruders on my network? Good questions! We help you to answer these questions.
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Transaction services
What will the net proceeds be after the sale? How do I optimise the selling price of my business or the price of one of my business activities? How do I capitalise on synergies following an acquisition? Am I not offering too much? These are all good questions when you’re buying or selling a business. It’s a transaction that concerns significant amounts, impacts your future, and therefore must be executed properly. We provide a solid foundation for your decisions.
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Valuation, investigation & dispute services
Do you require a fact finding investigation to help assess irregularities? Is it necessary to ascertain facts for litigation purposes?
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Auditing of annual accounts
You are answerable to others, such as shareholders and other stakeholders, with regard to your financial affairs. Financial information must therefore be reliable. What is more, you want to know how far you are progressing towards achieving your goals and what risks may apply.
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IFRS services
Financial reporting in accordance with IFRS is a complex matter. Nowadays, an increasing number of international companies are becoming aware of the rules. But how do you apply them in practice?
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ISAE & SOC Reporting
Our ISAE & SOC Reporting services provide independent and objective reports on the design, implementation and operational effectiveness of controls at service organizations.
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Pre-audit services
Pre-audit services is all about making the company’s entire financial administration ready for checking before the external accountant begins his/her audit of the annual accounts.
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SOx law implementation
The SOx legislation dictates that management is structurally accountable for reporting on the internal control relevant to the financial statements.
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International corporate tax
The Netherlands’ tax regime is highly dynamic. Rules and the administrative courts raise new challenges in fiscal considerations on a nearly daily basis, both nationally and internationally.
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VAT advice
VAT is an exceptionally thorny issue, especially in major national and international activities. Filing cross-border returns, registering or making payments requires specialised knowledge. It is crucial to keep that knowledge up-to-date in order to respond to the dynamics of national and international legislation and regulation.
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Customs
Importing/exporting goods to or from the European Union involves navigating complicated customs formalities. Failure to comply with these requirements usually results in delays. In addition, an excessively high rate of taxation or customs valuation for imports can cost you money.
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Human Capital Services
Do your employees determine the success and growth of your organisation? And are you in need of specialists which you can ask your Human Resources (HR) related questions? Human Resources (HR) related questions? Our HR specialists will assist you in the areas of personnel and payroll administration, labour law and taxation relating to your personnel. We provide you with high-quality personnel and payroll administration, good HR guidance and the right (international) advice as standard. All this, of course, with a focus on the human dimension.
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Innovation & grants
Anyone who runs their own business sets themselves apart from the rest. Anyone who dares stick their neck out distinguishes themselves even more. That can be rather lucrative.
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Tax technology
Driven by tax technology, we help you with your (most important) tax risks. Identify and manage your risks and become in control!
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Transfer pricing
The increased attention for transfer pricing places greater demands on the internal organisation and on reporting.
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Sustainable tax
In this rapidly changing world, it is increasingly important to consider environmental impact (in accordance with ESG), instead of limiting considerations to financial incentives. Multinational companies should review and potentially reconsider their tax strategy due to the constantly evolving social standards
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Pillar Two
On 1 January 2024 the European Union will introduce a new tax law named “Pillar Two”. These new regulations will be applicable to groups with a turnover of more than EUR 750 million.
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Cryptocurrency and digital assets
In the past decade, the utilization of blockchain and its adoption of a distributed ledger have proven their capacity to revolutionize the financial sector, inspiring numerous initiatives from businesses and entrepreneurs.
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Streamlined Global Compliance
Large corporations with a presence in multiple jurisdictions face a number of compliance challenges. Not least of these are the varied and complex reporting and compliance requirements imposed by different countries. To overcome these challenges, Grant Thornton provides a solution to streamline the global compliance process by centralizing the delivery approach.
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Expand into new markets
Do you seek for opportunities in the global business arena? Whether you are about to open a new office in a foreign country or considering an international acquisition, you need certainty of making the right choices for your company. Global expansion isn’t always as simple as it sounds. The good thing is that we’re here to help!
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Expanding your business in the Netherlands
International expansion is an important step. The Netherlands can be your gateway to Europe for doing business abroad. But why you should choose the Netherlands?
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Global contacts
Wherever you choose to do business, you want access to people with the best ideas and critical thinking that will enable you to grow your business at home and abroad.
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Corporate Law
From the general terms and conditions to the legal strategy, these matters need to be watertight. This provides assurance, and therefore peace of mind and room for growth. We will be pro-active and pragmatic in thinking along with you. We always like to look ahead and go the extra mile.
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Employment Law
Small company or large multinational: in any company your people are of the utmost importance for your business. Employment brings with it many issues in many areas and often has legal consequences. For big strategic, but also for more everyday questions about employment law, our lawyers are ready to help you out. Also for questions about international employment law. Do you have your own HR department? We’ll gladly assist them. We deliver bespoke services and are there when you need us.
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Sustainable legal
Sustainability is more than a buzzword - it is the core of our legal advice towards sustainable success. From drafting sustainable contracts, integrating sustainable HR policies and ESG due diligence within our M&A practice to advising on ESG and other (national and international) legislation: we prefer to be pragmatic and proactive in helping your business.
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Maritime sector
How can you continue to be a global leader? The Netherlands depends on innovation. It is our high-quality knowledge which leads the maritime sector to be of world class.
Given their strategic importance, GTIL made a decision to respond to these EDs on 8 August 2022 and a copy of our responses can be found here.
When these EDs are approved they will become European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and the intention is they will all come into effect from 1 January 2024. Eleven of their EDs will become the first set of standards required under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), covering environmental, social and governance matters. A further two cross-cutting ED’s addressed the underlying principles behind the overall presentation, recognition, measurement and disclosure of sustainability matters in general.
Our main comments, which we understand are broadly consistent with responses made by other large international accounting firms, are summarised as follows:
- We encouraged EFRAG to continue to work very closely with the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and other parties to build a global baseline for sustainability reporting. We strongly recommended to EFRAG that it adopt the four pillar approach found in the Task Force for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) requirements, rather than continuing to use the three pillar approach it has used in the EDs.
- We said companies should ultimately have confidence that when complying with ESRS they were also complying with the ISSB standards, because the data they collected and processed should be the same. We pointed out that as currently drafted, if a global company was operating in the EU and elsewhere around the world that two sets of sustainability Information would have to be prepared because ESRS requirements and ISSB requirements were currently quite different and in many cases, irreconcilable.
- We said that to support all of the EDs, additional guidance was needed to explain the concepts of double materiality, impact materiality, financial materiality, and information materiality found in ESRS 1 ‘General Principles’. Our comments said this additional guidance would support practical implementation, fit for purpose and comparable reporting, and interoperability with ISSB's standards. We pointed out that if more precise requirements and guidance surrounded double materiality this would remove the need to include a rebuttable presumption requirement directed at assessing the adequacy of materiality disclosures
- We indicated the level of detail and quantity of information required by the 13 EDs was likely to lead to information overload, so in doing so it would reduce transparency and potentially the level of confidence that readers would have in the sustainability information being presented. We recommended reducing the number of disclosures, and clearly indicating what was mandatory and what was elective. We reminded EFRAG that it was important to allow companies sufficient time to collect data and to build processes, systems, and internal controls that deliver high quality data, and so we recommended phasing in many of its required disclosures
- Finally, we expressed concern about us not having sufficient time to consider all the material that had been released by EFRAG for comment. Following on from this we said we also had concerns about EFRAG not having sufficient time:
- to analyse and properly address stakeholder feedback on the proposals
- to perform an overall impact assessment of what it was proposing
- for the EFRAG Sustainability Reporting Technical Experts Group and Board to do their technical work, and
- to ultimately deliver a final set of high quality standards based on a TCFD format.
Given all this we strongly recommend that EFRAG that it ask the EU for more time to allow appropriate due process and better integration of its proposed standard with the global baseline being established by the ISSB, to ensure the final standards it issued were fit for purpose and command the confidence of both preparers and users.
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