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frontiers in tax, June 2009

The third edition of frontiers in tax is designed to interest, challenge and stimulate tax professionals. This is a sister publication to frontiers in finance - and as the name implies, it focuses specifically on the tax issues facing the global financial services executive. In this edition KPMG colleagues discuss the tax implications
of the current climate on transfer pricing, new regulations, influence on savings
and opportunities in M&A.

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KPMG´s Corporate and Indirect Tax Rate Survey 2009

KPMG´s Corporate and Indirect Tax Rate Survey 2009

This survey is an annual look at tax rates affecting business around the globe. This year's version indicates that an urgent need for more revenue is pushing many governments into active moves to increase the tax take from indirect taxes, and a worldwide broadening of the tax base for corporate income taxes. This represents a milestone in global tax policy, as a trend of several years of falling rates came to an end.

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IFRS

IFRS Now: Transforming the finance environment, June 2009

This publication reviews the impact of IFRS on finance and discusses how it can be a catalyst for wider transformation, not only to meet compliance demands but also to serve the business better. It looks at how regulatory change can help finance become a partner in the business and seven practical steps to integrate IFRS conversion with wider finance transformation.

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Getting the balance right

Getting the balance right - Long-term capital, risk and regulatory challenges

The global insurance industry is currently facing possibly its greatest challenge ever - Getting the balance right in capital and risk management within an increasingly regulated environment. To address this, KPMG International commissioned the Economist Intelligence Unit to undertake a second survey in August 2009 of 392 senior executives from insurance companies around the world.

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Focus on transparency

Focus on transparency - Trends in the presentation of financial statements and disclosure of information by European banks, July 2009

KPMG's review of published accounts, finds that across the banking industry annual reports are getting longer and more complex; that liquidity, market and credit risk disclosures are difficult to interpret and that, in general, financial statements still lack a strong degree of comparability. This is a review of published annual reports for 16 European banks, chosen to reflect a large geographic spread of banks that report under IFRS.

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Construction Survey

Global Construction Survey 2009: Navigating the Storm, November 2009

KPMG International's annual 2009 Global Construction Survey, involving 108 senior leaders from 30 countries worldwide explores how the sector appears to have weathered the economic storm. The report looks at issues including the war for talent, risk management, sustainability, and the proposed changes to revenue recognition.

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Central bank accountability and transparency

Central bank accountability and transparency - A comparative study of central bank financial reporting practices, October 2009

This study is based on a snapshot of predominantly central banks' annual reports for 2007. The report identifies commonalities and variations in the financial reporting practices of central banks which could be useful to the preparers, auditors and users of central bank financial statements, as well as the wider financial services industry.

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State of the Investment Management Industry

State of the Investment Management Industry, Europe (SIMI), November 2009

SIMI aims to address the key industry issues in investment management. With authors from KPMG firms' around the globe, this edition looks at how the industry is trying to recover from the economic downturn and what the future holds. The leading article addresses demographic change and what will happen now the 'Baby Boomer' generation is approaching retirement, will Generation Y be able to provide a new market?

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