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Compliance
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Human Capital solutions
Grant Thornton's Human Capital division has a team of professionals determined to accompany individuals and organizations throughout the relationship between the employee and the organization.
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Advice on operational restructuring to companies in difficulty, their creditors or other interested parties.
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Financial audit projects and special technical and concurrent reviews of programs of national and subnational governments financed by International Credit Organizations. Special projects for government entities, public and mixed companies.
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Valuation Services
We provide stock, business, asset, and liability valuations in support of negotiations, account structuring, and tax opportunities.
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Transaction Advisory Services
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Academy - Empowered by Grant Thornton Argentina & Perú
Academy is an e-learning platform that emerged as a joint initiative of Grant Thornton Argentina and Grant Thornton Perú. It is designed so that everyone can acquire new skills in accounting, auditing, taxes, technology and business through access to multiple courses and certifications.
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External audit
We offer services of external audit of financial statements; assurance reports, agreed procedures and certifications; due-diligence and take-over of companies.
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Audit methodology and technology
At Grant Thornton we use a single audit methodology across our global network. We apply it through an integrated set of software tools known as the Voyager suite. Meet it now.
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Professional standards and training
Our IFRS advisors can help you navigate the complexity of the standards so you can spend your time and effort on your business.
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Prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism
At Grant Thornton we provide advice to our clients in the development of an Asset Laundering and Terrorist Financing Prevention strategy that allows them to prevent risks in a comprehensive manner.
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Tax outsourcing
Taxes have a strong impact on your business decisions. At Grant Thornton we will respond quickly and tailor solutions for our clients.
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Payroll
Put your payroll in good hands while you take your business beyond. Learn about our services.
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Accounting, administration and finance services
To achieve the highest business benefits, you need an experienced team by your side. Learn about our services.
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Start-up companies
Learn about our solutions to help build your business.
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Financial statements audit
We offer services of external audit of financial statements; assurance reports, agreed procedures and certifications; due-diligence and take-over of companies.
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FIU Independent External Reviewer - AML/CFT
We participate in the implementation of the requirements of the FIU in leading companies and our services ensure an orderly framework, optimizing the investment.
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Internal audit
An internal audit helps identify gaps, deficiencies, and potential for inherent risk in all facets of the organization.
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Legal audit
The monitoring of the legal area is usually a complex and difficult task for organizations, which however cannot be neglected.
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Creation and acquisition of Financial Entities
We have the knowledge and experience in activities related to the acquisition and creation of financial entities, both locally and internationally.
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Responsible for regulatory compliance
At Grant Thornton we offer the service of acting as "Responsible for Regulatory Compliance and Internal Control" for companies that requested registration as Settlement and Clearing Agent and Trading Agent.
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Global Mobility Services
Sending someone abroad involves liabilities and obligations. We offer interesting solutions to minimize the tax burden for both parties.
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Direct Tax
We provide clear and practical solutions that meet your specific business needs, in the most tax-efficient way possible.
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Indirect Tax
Grant Thornton's tax teams take a rigorous approach to help you meeting your tax obligations, whatever challenges you may face along the way.
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International taxes – Transaction support
We offer our international experience in the field and make available the resources to plan and adequately comply with regulatory frameworks.
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Services to private clients
Wherever you are in the world, our tax specialists can help you with your interests and investments abroad.
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Clean energy and technology
Growing demand, development of new ways of energy and need of a sustainable future: we accompany our client in these changes and to be one step ahead.
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Mining
Our flexible, partner-led teams are dynamic and focused on development. We take time to understand the details of the client’s business and offer unique solutions.
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Oil and gas
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Banking
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Private capital
We gather international teams of experts in corporate finance, restructuring and recovery, tax and insurance services to deliver customized solutions from initial investment, through development stages until the end of each project.
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Fintech
We work to take advantage of all opportunities and manage industry risks, allowing our clients to always be one step beyond their competitors.
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Asset management
We have specialized teams in more than 140 markets delivering solutions regarding insurance, taxes and advisory to global, international, regional, local asset managers.
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Insurance
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Month-ends are the most visible measure of how your finance function performs to CEOs and your fellow executive directors. These other senior leaders probably don't spend a lot of time with your finance team during the month and so don't know the quality of your team. They do, however, either get the management accounts on time, or they get them late. This is a high-profile process, and it’s painful when lateness gives a bad impression.
If airline pilots and doctors need them, then so do you
A reliable and up-to-date checklist of month-end tasks is essential. It tells everyone what is expected, to what standard, and in what order. It allows you to measure how far you are through the process at any point and gives you the ability to adjust the order and resourcing of tasks to deal with unforeseen complexities.
It also gives you a better chance of retaining staff as new staff don’t have to obtain information about the existing process verbally or in an ad hoc manner. They can instead reference a single document and quickly understand their part of the process and why it’s important to the final output.
But most importantly it's a live document on which you record lessons learned. When month-end is over, lessons learned should be converted into new tasks or adjusted tasks. You're then ready to go for the next month-end – and your lessons learned will result in faster or more accurate management accounts.
Your first checklist - every journey starts with a single step
If you don't have one already, then creating the first can be daunting. The key here is to understand that the first attempt will not be fully correct. Make sure all those involved in the month-end know this and ask for their help in gradually getting it right. Assign the responsibility for creating the first draft to someone respected by all of your teams, who has strong listening skills. If you're struggling with month-end deadlines already, your team members may be stressed and emotional and could have a lot to share. You need a calm, non-partisan member of staff to listen to their thoughts and record them. Every thought they have - regardless of how negative at first - will help you build a quality checklist which takes into account all of the inevitable challenges.
What it needs to include
The checklist needs to be simple. It should contain the nine following columns:
- Task number
- Task description
- Owner
- Reserve owner (ie, who does it when the owner is unavailable)
- Target start time and date
- Target end time and date
- Actual start time and date
- Actual end time and date, and
- Lessons learned.
Mark key moments as checkpoints. These will usually include the closing of key parts of the accounts - eg, accounts payable and accounts receivable. These checkpoints give a tangible sense of achievement for the sub-teams and after the month-end allow you to quickly see which parts of the process cause the longest delays.
'Running' the month-end and who should do it
Assign the responsibility of 'running' the month-end to the same member of staff who created the first draft. Be clear about what this means. It means respectfully checking with staff how they are progressing and constructively helping them talk through challenges and work out solutions. Make it clear to them that you are only asking them to help with solutions they have the power to affect. Tell them to escalate anything else to you, and commit to making quick decisions when they do.
Debriefing: no-one comes to work to do a bad job
When month-end is over, join the debrief as a curious observer. Make sure your language is about processes and roles - never individual people. Show the team you are only interested in helping them remove barriers to make the process quicker and less stressful. Pick three barriers you can personally help with and commit to removing them before the next month-end. This will result in fewer out-of-hours working for the team and they will appreciate you for helping them spend more time with their family and friends.
If you need more insight and guidance, contact us.