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Business Risk Services Internal audit hot topics
Technology is continuing to advance at a rapid rate, bringing new growth opportunities for organisations around the world. While it enables new commercial models and supports emerging business areas, it brings additional pressure for established organisations to keep up to date. These advances create new challenges for risk management, and organisations must be more alert than ever around emerging risks. In this document we set out the top ten technology risks, which audit committees should seek to gain assurance over.
GRANT THORNTON Switzerland/LIECHTENSTEIN The future of leadership
Global business is facing a wave of disruptive influences that look set to spark the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We explore how the way professionals work is evolving, the leadership skills that will be needed within the dynamic mid-market to thrive, and how organisations can stay competitive in the war for talent and customers in 2030.
Business Risk Services 361° IT Assessment
Your company can no longer afford to not have a clear IT strategy or have manual processes, unclear roles and responsibilities, poorly defined support processes or a lack of an overview or cost structure of third-party providers. In an increasingly digital and fast-moving world, it is important to be efficiently positioned in the area of IT so that both employees and customers see well-functioning and cost-efficient IT as being added value.
Tax Corporate Tax Reform
A public vote on May 19, 2019 approved a long awaited corporate tax reform. The main objective of the changes is to align Swiss tax law with international standards while preserving and enhancing Switzerland’s attractiveness for international mobile companies. The reform will phase out some preferential corporate tax regimes (the mixed domiciliary and principal company regulations) that were in the focus of dispute with the EU and the OECD. A bundle of new measures will strengthen Switzerland’s attractiveness as a hub for international business.
GRANT THORNTON Switzerland/LIECHTENSTEIN European economic outlook
European businesses are battening down the hatches in the face of swirling uncertainty, but leaders shouldn’t just sit back and wait for a clearer picture. There are still growth opportunities in the market for those adopting the right strategies. There is no shortage of uncertainty in Europe, both economic and political. Brexit, weak export demand from China, growing populist politics ahead of EU parliamentary elections and an economic cycle that has passed its peak are conspiring to erode confidence.
Tax VAT Registration: Electronic and Telecommunication Services
As of 1 January 2018 a non-established business making electronic and telecommunication services to a recipient in Switzerland must register for VAT in Switzerland, if the Swiss recipient itself is not registered for VAT, unless the non-established business can prove that its worldwide revenue from all its supplies and services is less than CHF 100,000 per year. Up to 31 December 2017 such a non-established business has only to register for VAT, if its electronic and telecommunication services to Swiss recipients not registered for VAT amounts to CHF 100,000 or more per year.
Advisory Financial Services Crypto-assets – Digital assets and their audit challenges
Bitcoin, distributed ledger technology (Blockchain or DLT), cryptocurrencies, tokens, wallets, public & private keys. The relative importance of these new terms stands in contrast to the vocabulary used previously in the financial world. A bridge thus needs to be built between these recent developments and long-standing definitions. The industry is increasingly concerned with the following key issues:
Sponsoring Sponsoring Partner – Finance Forum LI 2019
Grant Thornton Switzerland/Liechtenstein once again appeared as a sponsoring partner at the Finance Forum Liechtenstein held for the fifth time. The leading financial conference in Liechtenstein took place on Wednesday, 27 March 2019 in the Vaduzer Saal. The name given to this year’s conference, which networked around 600 decision-makers from the financial sector in the entire German-speaking region, was "Disruption in the financial sector 2019".
Sponsoring FinTech 2019 – Beyond Banking
This March, Grant Thornton Switzerland/Liechtenstein presented itself for the first time as co-partner of the “FinTech 2019 – Beyond Banking” finance and business forum. This year’s FinTech conference was held on Thursday, 14 March 2019 at The Dolder Grand in Zurich which some 280 people attended. The conference was dedicated to the ongoing digital evolution of the financial sector and addressed initial findings. Renowned experts presented specific business cases from the world of Fintech and Blockchain as well as from digital-native industries.