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Business valuations
We offer expert valuation advice in transactions, regulatory and administrative matters, and matters subject to dispute – valuing businesses, shares and intangible assets in a wide range of industries.
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Capital markets
You need corporate finance specialists experienced in international capital markets on your side if you’re buying or selling financial securities.
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Complex and international services
Our experience of multi-jurisdictional insolvencies coupled with our international reputation allows us to deliver the best possible outcome for all stakeholders.
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Corporate insolvency
Our corporate investigation and recovery teams can help you manage insolvency situations and facilitate the best outcome.
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Debt advisory
An optimal funding structure for your organisation presents unprecedented opportunities, but achieving this can be difficult without a trusted advisor.
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Expert witness
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Financial models
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Forensic and investigation services
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Independent business review
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IT forensics
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Mergers and acquisitions
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Raising finance
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Relationship property services
Grant Thornton offers high quality independent advice on the many financial issues associated with relationship property from considering an individual financial issue to all aspects of a complex settlement.
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Restructuring and turnaround
Grant Thornton’s restructuring and turnaround service capabilities include cash flow, liquidity management and forecasting; crisis and interim management; financial advisory services to companies and parties in transition and distress
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Transaction advisory
Our depth of market knowledge will steer you through the transaction process. Grant Thornton’s dynamic teams offer range of financial, commercial and operational expertise.
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Corporate tax
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Employment tax
Grant Thornton’s advisers can help you with PAYE (payroll tax), Kiwisaver, fringe benefits tax (FBT), student loans, global mobility services, international tax
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Global mobility services
Our team can help expatriates and their employers deal with tax and employment matters both in New Zealand and overseas. With the correct planning advice, employee allowances and benefits may be structured to avoid double taxation and achieve tax savings.
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GST
GST has the potential to become a minefield and can be expensive when it goes wrong. Our technical knowledge can help you minimise the negative impact of GST
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International tax
International tax rules are undergoing their biggest change in a generation. Tax authorities around the world are increasingly vigilant, especially when it comes to global operations.
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Research and Development
R&D tax incentives are often underused and misunderstood – is your business maximising opportunities for making claims?
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Tax compliance
Our advisers help clients manage the critical issue of compliance across accountancy regulations, corporation law and tax. We also offer business and wealth advisory services, which means we can provide a seamless and tax-effective offering to our clients.
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Transfer pricing
Tax authorities are demanding transparency in international arrangements. We businesses comply with regulations and use transfer pricing as a strategic planning tool.
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Audit methodology
Our five step audit methodology offers a high quality service wherever you are in the world and includes planning, risk assessment, testing internal controls, substantive testing, and concluding and reporting
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Audit technology
We apply our audit methodology with an integrated set of software tools known as the Voyager suite. Our technology has been developed to produce quality audits that are effective and efficient.
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Financial reporting advisory
Our financial reporting advisers have the expertise to help you deal with the constantly evolving regulatory environment.
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Business architecture
Our business architects help businesses with disruptive conditions, business expansion and competitive challenges; the deployment of your strategy is critical to success.
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Cloud services
Our team is led by cloud business experts who tailor services to the needs of your organisation, from strategy and implementation to ongoing services assurance.
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Internal audit
Our internal audits deliver independent assurance over key controls within your riskiest processes, proving what works and what doesn’t and recommending improvements.
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IT advisory
Our hands on product experience, extensive functional knowledge and industry insights help clients solve complex IT and technology issues
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IT privacy and security
IT privacy and security should support your business strategy. Our pragmatic approach focuses on reducing cyber security risks specific to your organisation
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Organisational & cultural change
The key to sustainable and future growth is a unified organisation operating within a strong cultural context, where transparency and communication are the priority for Kaimahi, and where visible leadership means walking the talk – but where does that journey begin?
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Payroll assurance
Our specialist payroll assurance team can conduct a review of your payroll system configuration and processes, and then help you and your team to implement any necessary recalculations.
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PCI DSS
Our information security specialists are approved Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) that have been qualified by the PCI Security Standards Council to independently assess merchants and service providers.
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Process improvement
As your organisation grows in size and complexity, processes that were once enabling often become cumbersome and inefficient. To maintain growth, your business must remain flexible, agile and profitable
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Procurement/supply chain
Procurement and supply chain inputs will often dominate your balance sheet and constantly evolve for organisations to remain competitive and meet changing customer requirements
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Project assurance
Major programmes and projects expose you to significant financial and reputational risk throughout their life cycle. Don’t let these risks become a reality.
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Risk management
We understand that growing companies need to establish robust internal controls, and use information technology to effectively mitigate risk.
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Robotic process automation (RPA)
RPA is emerging as the most sophisticated form of automation used to help businesses become more agile and remain competitive in the face of today’s ongoing digital disruption.
Budget 2014: Ultrafast Broadband – but we need more to realise its potential
Ultrafast Broadband is like a new Ferrari. You know it has incredible acceleration and can achieve impressive high speeds. But do you have the ability or the highway on which to realise the car’s ultimate potential?
Research indicates that broadband adoption boosts a firm’s productivity by 7–10%, but do these firms have the hardware and ability to ensure they capture every percentage point of this lift in productivity? In the majority of cases, the answer would be no.
Technology is changing the way we all operate, as steam and electricity did for manufacturing and agriculture in the 19th Century, but you can’t kick any goals if you have old hardware and software and your technology skills have not been refreshed since Y2K.
Just have a look inside your own home at the way your children are adapting and adopting, the new technologies that are rolling down the broadband super highway. If your children are like mine, it may mean they revert to their rooms and communicate with friends via txt, Facebook, Snapchat etc, rarely talk to each other. However, they are also quick adopters of the efficiencies offered – just look at the boom in on-line buying by this generation.
This is where the Government has a role to play, and the Budget is a perfect starting point. We have the Ultrafast Broadband that will lift productivity by up to 10%, but no support network to help businesses tap into this potential.
The Government has yet to put in place its five-point action plan to realise the economic, social and productivity benefits of much faster broadband but an allocation of funds in the Budget for these initiatives with education at the forefront would be a massive step forward.
Labour in its leaked ICT Policy framework wants open access for all to discourage overbuild of UFB and sharing of investment risk, but there is little within the framework for SME owners.
We need some action now as gains will not happen overnight. If we wait until the elections, it will be another year before anything meaningful happens, if it does at all. Do we really want the Ferrari sitting in the garage, depreciating, that long?
We also need to take some responsibility ourselves and not just rely on the Government. Businesses need to identify how they themselves are going to benefit, not just wait for it to happen. The Government is investing $1.5 billion in building the information super highway and businesses will need to use it to remain competitive and viable.
The ‘always on’ culture means that electronic communication is intrinsic to life, both at work and away from it. But while many businesses recognise this by investing in new technology that permits greater flexibility within working patterns, many working practices continue to demonstrate a traditional perception of work/life balance rather than a more ‘joined-up’ approach.
Ultrafast broadband will provide benefits but if a business hasn’t considered cloud computing, how to earn and sell more from their website and build better client relationships, then the gains won’t be there.
Further enquiries, please contact:
Paul Kane
Grant Thornton Partner, Privately Held Business
T +64 (0)9 308 2576
E paul.kane@nz.gt.com