Horizons

A quarterly magazine in both Czech and English. It is an inspiring and useful source of information to help you fulfill your projects and find approaches for your business propositions.

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Horizons - April 2010
  • Weathering the storm – effective cash management
  • Will we see M&A take a turn in the right direction this year?
  • A proper feasibility study – the cornerstone of a successful project
  • How will the crisis affect the public sector in 2010?
  • An accurate weather forecast can be of significant help to business
  • How to improve SAP Performance and SAP Security
  • Focus on risk prevention and quality reporting
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    Horizons - November 2009
  • Strong support. Focus on six key pillars of your business
  • 2010 a key year for the financial sector – at home as well as globally
  • The financial crisis and its impact on the life and non-life insurance sector
  • Governance system and ORSA: two Pillar 2 challenges
  • New IAS 39: Benefits and costs of the new financial instruments classification
  • An economic crisis: the best time to innovate
  • How can we optimise IT costs effectively?
  • Crisis prevention measures and the change of VAT
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    Horizons - October 2009
  • Keeping EU Taxes in Czech
  • Significant VAT changes are in the works as of 1 January 2010
  • Transfer pricing in an economic downturn
  • Findings of an audit conducted by the Tax Authority
  • Employee benefits: what are the tax consequences?
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    Horizons - July 2009
  • The crisis and company restructuring
  • Mergers and acquisitions - will we see
    a recovery towards the end of the year?
  • Financing restructurings: achieving tax deductibility
  • Private Use of Company Cars and VAT
  • Photovoltaics - Energy of the Future and Attractive Investment
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    Horizons - March 2009
  • Working capital management not only in times of financial crisis
  • Lean manufacturing surviving the economic downturn and getting into the world class
  • Getting round the financial crisis - using your data
  • Slashing costs – the opportunity to save on human resources
  • Preventing the loss of key data
  • The operation of multi-purpose facilities and arenas could be more efficient
  • Finance shared services – delivering the promise
  • Corporate social responsibility is on the rise
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  • Beyond the credit crisis: the impact for investment managers
  • Principles and Presentation of Insurers in the CEE region
  • Evaluation of uncertainty in an internal model
  • Fair Value Accounting on Illiquid Markets
  • Information technologies in the banking sector - the latest trends and challenges
  • The credit crunch - is your company spending money wisely on projects?
  • Registration of a VAT group - group member definition
  • Discrimination taxation in the Czech Republic
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  • Advance Pricing Agreements are on the rise in the EU - the European Commission issues Guidelines in response
  • Transfer pricing in the Czech Republic - the tax administrator's perspective
  • Transfer pricing from the enterprise risk management perspective
  • Experience gained from tax inspections - transfer prices
  • Transfer Pricing Documentation
  • The impact of transfer pricing on the auditor's report
  • Opinion poll
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  • Thin capitalisation and the application of new regulations in practice
  • The application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) at real estate companies
  • Property valuation
  • Property tranactions
  • Investments in non-listed European real estate funds
  • The future of golf in Eastern Europe has great potential
  • Opinion poll: What are the most important issues you deal with in real estate sector engagements?
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  • Summary of the most important changes in the Public Finance Stabilisation Act having an impact on the retail sector
  • Accounting and tax aspects of supplier bonuses in the retail field
  • Conversion of Czech financial statements to statements prepared according to IFRS
  • Retail chains under the prssure of business competition
  • Trade loading – the ultimate cost carried by the retailer
  • Regulatory requirements in the area of payment transactions
  • Opinion poll: We asked our partners and managers what the most important issues are that they deal with in audit engagements in the retail sphere
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  • Building a Customer-oriented Insurance Company
  • Will VAT legislation for financial institutions be amended?
  • Anti-money laundering challenges in banking sector
  • Basel II - safety in the whitewater of global finance?
  • IFRS for insurance contracts - Phase II
  • IFRS 7 Financial Instruments: Disclosures about the risks arising fom financial instruments and how they are managed
  • Will VAT legislation for financial institutions be amended?
  • How to manage costs of IT services?
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    Horizons July 2007

    The year 2007 has been a time of major changes in the world of business. Both the general public and the professional community have been anxiously watching the approval process relating to the public finance and tax system reforms. These reforms, however, have somewhat overshadowed an equally important opportunity – the Czech Republic's entry into the so-called new structural intervention 2007 – 2013 program – a period during which the country will be able to receive up to CZK 776 billion in funding from the EU.
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    Horizons March 2007

    In the first edition of Horizons in 2007, you can read about a number of interesting tax issues – starting with a comparison of the tax incentives for foreign investors in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, through tax outsourcing and transfer pricing and ending with the tax aspects of foreign assignments.
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