For 17 years, Grant Thornton has been tracking the global progress of women in senior management. In the last 12 months, unprecedented events have had an unforeseen and unparalleled impact on that progress.
Retail businesses have been expanding their stores not only in their home markets but across the ASEAN region. Significant cross border franchising and online retailing have entered the industry and now account for a growing share of market. Much of this expansion is being driven by the increasing number of middle class consumers, higher spending power from fast-growing income and growth in e-commerce sales. However, constant change in the retail and consumer goods industry continues to affect how the industry operates, forcing the industry to innovate faster to keep ahead of consumer needs.
Stakeholder demands are changing, so how can business respond in the most efficient and effective way?
European businesses have a spring in their step. Data from our International Business Report (IBR) finds that business optimism across the EU sits at net 60% in the first quarter of 2018. This is the highest optimism figure recorded in Europe in over a decade of IBR research.
Tax strategy may be the least sexy among the campaign programs and the first presidential debate hardly touched on it but it is supposed to be a cornerstone of a government’s performance.
The presumption of regularity afforded to the revenue examiners in the assessment of taxes and the vested power of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to unilaterally determine any deficiency tax make the playing field in the Philippine Tax System unevenly matched.
Exploring a region of diversity and opportunity Asia-Pacific is a region of huge diversity, not only culturally and geographically, but economically too. Japan is a member of the G7 and a world leader in automotive and technology. Singapore competes with London and New York as a global financial centre. Australia and New Zealand are sometimes treated as a region in their own right due to both geography and culture - it takes over 12 hours to fly from Delhi to Sydney and history ties them more to the UK and US - but they are increasingly connected to Asia through trade.
