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Natural disasters, pandemics and other black swan events cause significant stress or distress for many businesses. Each organisation will face a different set of circumstances – however cash management should be a the centre of everything a business does to navigate this unprecedented event, regardless of the challenges it’s experiencing.

Women are winning more leadership roles – but progress is patchy and the Asia Pacific region is lagging behind the rest.

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.

Third Report on Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre (Wairarapa) Trust Board (in Liquidation) dated 3 March 2020.

International Valuation Standards (IVS) 2019 have been updated and include a new chapter, 'IVS 220 Non-Financial Liabilities' as part of the intangible asset standards. Non-financial liabilities require a non-cash performance obligation to provide goods or services, including deferred revenue obligations, warranties, environmental liabilities and loyalty program liabilities. IVS 2019 is available to IVSC subscribers here .

The New Zealand Relationship Property Survey 2019 is based on the views of over 250 family law practitioners. It is one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind.

In October 2018, the IASB issued ‘Definition of a Business’ making amendments to IFRS 3 ‘Business Combinations’. The amendments are a response to feedback received from the post-implementation review of IFRS 3 (‘the Standard’). They clarify the definition of a business, with the aim of helping entities to determine whether a transaction should be accounted for as an asset acquisition or a business combination.

Despite dominating the political agenda for much of the year, tax was barely mentioned in the budget. That doesn’t mean the work there is over, writes Greg Thompson of Grant Thornton New Zealand.

Budget 2019: Unless we can find some way of taxing wealth as well as incomes, New Zealand is headed for an intergenerational economic meltdown, writes Grant Thornton tax partner Murray Brewer.

Budget 2019: Should the collection of taxes be the point at which we talk about fairness, or should fairness be part of a completely different conversation, asks Grant Thornton tax partner Oksana Simonoff.

Now that we know what the Wellbeing Budget is, the question is how we can create the right political and social environment to support it, says Grant Thornton’s Barry Baker.

The requirements of Public Benefit Entities International Public Sector Accounting Standards (PBE IPSAS) for Not-for-Profit reporting entities are continuing to change. Navigating the Changes to PBE IPSAS for Not-for-Profits gives chief financial officers, and audit and risk committee members a high-level awareness of these recent changes to PBE IPSAS. It covers both brand new standards, and changes that have been made to existing ones.

To achieve a successful sale of a business and extract its maximum value, it’s critical that the planning process begins well in advance.

Gender diversity in business leadership is a no-lose proposition, yet progress is still slow. Grant Thornton International has been surveying thousands of businesses annually since 2004 about the levels of gender diversity in leadership roles globally.

Globally, the percentage of businesses with at least one woman in senior management has risen to 87%, an increase of 12% in the last year, according to our latest Women in Business research from Grant Thornton International.

Impact in action is the first of two reports, which features the findings of our research with over 30 leading global charities. We explore what impact means to different charities, the challenges they face in measuring it, and the innovations developed to overcome these challenges.