Standards of Innovation in Auditing
The world of Auditors is becoming dramatically a competitive cutthroat that lead certification authorities of auditing to differentiate themselves by bringing out few added values. But, today most of the auditors in UAE keep their focal point on compliance rather than...
VAT: Let’s Show the Way to Get Prepared..!
The prospects of a federal corporate tax and value added tax (‘VAT’) regime is gaining momentum in UAE. The launch of the new VAT system will not only just affect consumers, but also will have a wider impact on businesses. While it’s still early for companies to make...
Administrative and Procedural Aspects of VAT
In the last couple of artilcle, I had covered about VAT rollout, the structure of VAT, VAT thresholds, likely impact of VAT on intra-GCC trade, exports to non-GCC countries and on inflation. In this and subsequent issues,I plan to write about the administrative...
M&A Transaction in Retail and Consumer Sector
This review covers the mergers and acquisitions made between 1-Jul to 30-Sep-2016 in the global retail and consumer goods sector for transactions, for which the deal value has been disclosed. The M&A data have been collated from company press releases and...
Trade Financing GAP for Small-Mid Enterprises
As governments around the world look to small and mid-size enterprises as engines of growth, trade and job creation, a significant challenge stands in the way: hundreds of billions of dollars of pent-up demand for trade finance. This financing can be used as export...
Combating Trade Based Money Laundering
The FATF has defined “Money Laundering” as the processing of criminal proceeds to disguise their origin in order to legitimize the illegally-gained proceeds; and “Trade Based Money Laundering” (TBML)as the process of disguising the proceeds of crime and moving value...
#BeBoldforChanges – International Women’s Day
On March 8th we celebrate International Women’s Day. It’s a celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for fast-tracking gender equality – and this is according to the organization that...
M&A Transactions in Global E-Commerce Sector: Q1-2017
The global M&A transactions in the first quarter of 2017 in the e-commerce sector, has crossed $1 billion with top e-commerce and brick & mortar players such as Amazon, Alibaba and Walmart acquiring regional and niche e-commerce startups. Description of Deal...