|
About Grant Thornton
Grant Thornton is one of the world's leading organisations of independently-owned accounting and consulting firms providing financial and business advice to entrepreneurial businesses. Grant Thornton has offices in more than 521 locations in 113 countries, providing accountancy, tax and business advice and last year billed some $1.84 billion in fees. Grant Thornton is not a worldwide partnership.
Founded more than twenty years ago, Grant Thornton has a long track record of helping businesses as they expand and explore business internationally. Grant Thornton offers clients a wide range of services to help them develop their businesses including Assurance services such as audit and compliance, International Taxation, Corporate Finance, Corporate Recovery and PRIMA (People & Relationship Issues in ManAgement). Grant Thornton’s International Business Centres, located in the world’s major financial centres, are designed as the gateway to all the resources of Grant Thornton’s international organisation. Each centre is led by a director experienced in international business and familiar with the wealth of expertise of the firms around the world.
David McDonnell, chief executive of Grant Thornton, says of the worldwide organisation, “Our clients are increasing their international focus as global economic forces extend into the owner-managed and entrepreneurial sector. Whether doing business in another country for the first time, or taking advantage of growing international opportunities, our clients need an adviser who is also a friend and ally on the international stage.”
Grant Thornton focuses on the owner-managed and entrepreneurial businesses sector and continues to develop services and products tailor made to them. Research shows that these kinds of businesses require a particularly personal and commercial approach from their advisers. “Grant Thornton’s ambition is to be the first choice adviser for independent businesses wanting to develop internationally” continues David McDonnell.
“To do that, we have to provide a personal, trusted service to clients - which means that every client gets the individual care and attention of a partner. Our aim is to give commercial, practical and clear advice, whilst remaining creative and imaginative. Most important of all, we always look after the interest and ambition of the owner as well as the business itself which is essential in this marketplace.”
Owner-managed businesses employ half the world’s workforce and generate more than half the world’s GDP (gross domestic product). As the sector continues to grow, Grant Thornton anticipates that over the next few years there will be particular demand for cross-border corporate finance and tax structures.
About Our Organisational Structure
The name "Grant Thornton" signifies one of the world’s leading organizations of accounting and consulting firms providing assurance, tax and specialist business advice. Services are delivered nationally by the member and correspondent firms of Grant Thornton International, a network of independent firms throughout the world. Grant Thornton International is a non-practising, international umbrella organization and does not deliver services in its own name.
Each member and correspondent firm in Grant Thornton International is a separate independent national firm. These firms are not members of one international partnership or otherwise legal partners with each other, nor is any one firm responsible for the services or activities of any other. Each firm governs itself and handles its administrative matters on a local basis. Although many of the firms now carry the Grant Thornton name, either exclusively or in their national practice names, there is no common ownership among the firms or by Grant Thornton International. The firms are joined by a common professional vision, are especially focused on entrepreneurial, owner-managed businesses and share a commitment to providing high quality service to their clients when they do business outside their home country. |