What are your challenges?

• Do you report with credibility and clarity?
• Could you enhance your reputation and trust with third parties through more transparency?
• Do you capture financial information efficiently and effectively?
• Can you slice and dice your financials to support unexpected future questions?
• Is your corporate communications team prepared to deal with a crisis?

Our solutions

• High quality external and assurance services
• Assurance on compliance with laws and regulations

IFRS Advisory

• IFRS conversion or implementation of new or amended IFRS standards
• Accounting and reporting for complex transactions

Internal Audit and Compliance

• Internal audit
• Assess and improve the operating effectiveness of internal controls
• Corporate governance advisory
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Advice on how to engage the marketplace on challenging subjects, such as sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility

What are your challenges?

• Are you equipped to enter new markets?
• Do you have the right financing in place to support growth?
• Can your organisation support the post-implementation challenges?
• Are you managing your assets tightly from a cash flow/earnings standpoint during this period of low commodity prices?
• Have you fully captured cost synergies from recent acquisitions?
• Is IT fully leveraged and do you have effective IT controls in place?

Our solutions

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Full range of sell side services to support in the sale of businesses or individual assets (upstream, downstream, processing, refining, storage, etc. )
• Valuation services
• Transaction execution and strategic advisory
• Real estate advisory

Financial Management

• Management, controlling and quality assurance of local and global projects
• Restructuring of the finance function
• Support in the area of change management and cost optimisation
• Treasury and debt advisory

What are your challenges?

• Is your group optimally organised from a commercial, tax and legal point of view?
• Do you plan to acquire a structure in Switzerland or abroad?
• Have you assessed the impact of the wave of new regulations?
• Are you aware of the human rights controls applied by your suppliers?
• Are you up to date on US regulations (e.g. FATCA, Conflict Minerals — Dodd Frank) and how they could impact your business?
• How do you incorporate new, complex and sometimes conflicting tax requirements into your organisation?
• Is your tax structure sustainable?
• Are your subcontractors and counterparties applying the same standards as you?

Our solutions

• Assistance with company formation, restructuring or relocation
• Assistance with regulatory support and assessment at Swiss and international levels

VAT Advisory

• International VAT advisory and planning services on new trade flows
• Transactions mapping
• Supply chain review and optimisation from a cash flow and administrative burden perspective
• ERP implementation and review
• VAT registration and ongoing VAT compliance services (international)

Trade & Customs

• Utilisation of Free Trade agreements
• Advisory on Trade & Customs processes and operations

Forensic. Risk & Compliance

• Fraud, misconduct & corruption investigations
• Ethics & Integrity services
• Contract Compliance Review (for third parties, agents etc.)