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Digital disruption has triggered a technology-driven transformation of Australia’s mid-size business landscape.

For years, the report that comes from the company’s audit firm has been criticized as providing very little useful information for investors. Investors have been calling on the audit report to be enhanced from its pass/fail approach for some time. They have requested that the key areas identified in the course of the audit be explained and conclusions drawn on how the auditors were able to gain comfort.

BEPS is here to stay, with more than 80 countries now having agreed to adopt at least the minimum elements of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action Plan.

Fast growing mid-size businesses are finding ways to go global fast; rethinking business models and reinventing product and service offerings with the booming Asian market in their sights.

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Insights: Creating a compelling customer experience through improved inventory efficiency

Australian businesses are facing an uncertain future. Global pressures, exacerbated by the Brexit decision in the UK and Europe, the slowdown in China, and the US Presidential race, are seeing business leaders – boards in particular – looking for new ways to survive and thrive.

Australia’s mid-size businesses are busy. Some of them seek new strategies to liven up a slowing growth rate. Others are transforming their organisations and redesigning their processes to cope with fast growth.

Grant Thornton member firms are leaders in automotive supply chain and dealership advice, with specialist teams across the globe dedicated to this industry.

How to be cyber secure: A guide for mid-size businesses

New technology’s role is simply to enable serving the customer – and the processes and procedures behind it – to become seamlessly integrated, with consistency maintained across all sales channels: both traditional (the bricks and mortar store), and on-line, via desktop, laptop, smart phone, or tablet.

When purchasing real property after 1 July 2016, it is presumed that the vendor is a non-resident and the purchaser will be obliged to withhold 10% of the proceeds, register for withholding tax (WHT) and pay it to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) unless a clearance certificate has been obtained prior to settlement.