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Audit

The Audit Compliance Journey - This document describes how organisations’ efforts to sustain compliance can progress along four states of compliance to ultimately reduce both risk and cost.

Financial Reporting Matters - KPMG's Financial Reporting Matters is a newsletter that aims to keep you informed on financial reporting developments in Singapore and internationally.

IFRS in Brief - This newsletter highlights recent updates to International Financial Reporting Standards.

IFRS Briefing Sheet - This Newsletter reports on new exposure drafts and standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board ("IASB") and on other relevant developments affecting current and future IFRS reporters.

KPMG Stock Option Survey - A KPMG study of the expensing of stock options as being considered by the Council on Corporate Disclosure and Governance.

Perspectives - The European Audit Committee Chairman's Forum provides audit committee chairmen from some of the most respected organisations in Europe with the opportunity to debate issues of concern with their peers and to develop practical ways in which to enhance both audit committee effectiveness and the functioning of the capital markets.

Singapore Illustrative Financial Statements 2009 - This publication illustrates best practice disclosures, updated to comply with the latest requirements of the Singapore Companies Act, Singapore Financial Reporting Standards (FRSs) and Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) Listing Manual, applicable to companies with a financial year ending 31 December 2009.

This publication provides illustrative disclosures required by FRSs in issue at 1 September 2009 that are required to be applied by an entity with an annual period beginning on 1 January 2009.

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Tax

2006 Competitive Alternatives Study - KPMG’s guide to global business costs in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific contains useful information for any company seeking a cost advantage in locating international business operations.

ASPAC Tax News - A quarterly tax bulletin highlighting recent tax developments in the Asia Pacific region.

Asia Pacific Taxation - Written by experienced professionals in KPMG's ASPAC member firms, this publication provides a comprehensive, but easy-to-follow summary of the taxes which apply to businesses and to individuals in Asia Pacific.

Budget 2009 - This publication examines the changes, implications and impact of the 2009 Budget Statement on the individual, business and economy.

Executive Alert - KPMG's Executive Alert is a newsletter with updates on Singapore personal tax issues.

FTA Brief - This newsletter discusses salient features of concluded Free Trade Agreements between Singapore and other countries and their impact on local businesses.

Global Transfer Pricing Review - KPMG's Global Transfer Pricing Review is designed to help multinational companies stay current with transfer pricing rules worldwide.

Global VAT Brief - KPMG's Global VAT Brief brings together selected articles on International VAT developments, written by KPMG member firms' VAT professionals worldwide.

Indirect Tax News - This newsletter highlights developments and regulatory changes in Singapore Customs and Goods and Services Tax.

KPMG's Corporate and Indirect Tax Rate Survey 2007 - More than just a snapshot of tax rates in 2007, this 15th latest incarnation of KPMG's tax study provides for the first time, indirect tax rates such as GST.

Singapore Tax Survey 2006 - This inaugural tax survey of attitudes towards tax in Singapore shows that 75% of all companies in Singapore feel that tax strategy should be a board-level issue in their organisation.

Tax Alert - KPMG's Tax Alert examines and discusses the recent tax developments in Singapore and the implications thereof.

The Governance of Tax: A discussion paper - KPMG’s new study, The Governance of Tax, explains how companies can turn their tax policies into competitive advantage using good tax management and adopting clear, well thought through communication.

The Rising Tide: Regulation and stakeholder pressure on tax departments worldwide - This report provides insight into current and future trends and serves as warning to those yet unaffected, that increased regulation and stakeholder pressure is coming their way.

Transfer Pricing for the Telecommunications Industry - This publication summarizes the current state of play in transfer pricing as it affects telcos.

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Advisory

Singapore Cash Management Survey 2009
Companies in Singapore recognise the importance of cash management, but 97 percent of companies surveyed limited these efforts to working capital areas such as inventory, receivables and payables.

Managing risk in turbulent times - Part 3: Moving ahead of the times - How are you managing your risks in these turbulent times? Businesses with weak risk management fundamentals often find themselves vulnerable to unexpected surprises or to a turn of events. The third and final part of this 3-part series provides some our views on how you can re-look and re-boot your risk management programme to stay ahead of the curve and move ahead of the competition.

Managing risk in turbulent times - Part 2: Staying the course - How are you managing your risks in these turbulent times? Businesses with weak risk management fundamentals often find themselves vulnerable to unexpected surprises or to a turn of events. The second of this 3-part series highlights key strategic areas of your business that may need more attention in this climate.

Managing risk in turbulent times - Part 1: Getting the fundamentals in place - How are you managing your risks in these turbulent times? Businesses with weak risk management fundamentals often find themselves vulnerable to unexpected surprises or to a turn of events. The first of this 3-part series explains why risk shouldn't be managed in 'silos' and provides a 'healthcheck' for businesses to review how risk-ready they are.

Alliances and Joint Ventures: Fit, Focus, and Follow-Through - This paper presents a current research-backed view to stimulate dialogue about when and how to use the alliance option.

Being the Best: Insights from leading finance functions - This research examines how finance executives are improving the effectiveness of the finance and accounting function and how they interact with business units and external stakeholders.

Beating The Bears: How value can be enhanced - This report, looking at the issues surrounding mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity, demonstrates that companies with clear, expansive M&A strategy and efficient execution outperform their competitors.

Building a success model for internal audit: The balanced scorecard - This paper considers a balanced scorecard approach to developing success criteria and examines how performance can be measured against such criteria.

Building for prosperity - This report looks at the experience of the UK, Australia and Singapore, and from there explores the possibility for PPP to take off in Southeast Asia and China.

Climate changes your business - This comprehensive global review of over 50 authoritative reports published analyses the business risks and economic impact from climate change at a sector level. One uniform theme from the 18 industry sectors studied reveals that many companies currently underestimate the risks.

Business complexity: Opportunities for enhanced profitability beyond cost reduction and operational excellence - Simplification alone is not the answer; extracting value by embracing business complexity.

Extracting more value from disposals - Based on a survey of leading regional corporations and private equity (PE) houses, this study examined disposal practices in the Asia Pacific (ASPAC) region.

Global Anti-Money Laundering Survey 2007 - KPMG's second global anti-money laundering survey looks at how banks around the world are approaching AML. It also focuses on the specific issues facing banks in the various geographical regions and, where appropriate, compares the findings with our 2004 survey.

Global skills and convergence: Issues and ideas for the management of an international workforce - In the coming years, the labour crunch in the developed world may force multinationals and business leaders to address issues surrounding the global flow of labour and talent.

Hungry for more? Acquisition appetite and strategy in the global private banking and wealth management industry - This study assesses the current appetite for acquisition and the strategy surrounding it in the face of the pressures the industry is facing.

Internal audit’s role in modern corporate governance - This publication highlights the key role that internal audit can play in supporting the boards of directors in ensuring the effectiveness of their organisations’ internal control systems.

KPMG Fraud Survey Report 2008 - This survey provides an insight into the trend, nature and extent of fraud experienced by organisations in Singapore.

Living on the Frontline: The resilient organisation - This publication concludes that becoming a 'resilient organisation' is now the ultimate goal. Resilient organisations are defined as those that can maintain their most critical operations, and ultimately, survive all but the most extreme forms of disruption.

Risk Management News - A newsletter of the KPMG Chief Risk Officer Forum that discusses current risk management issues affecting companies in Singapore.

Strategic Evolution: A global survey on sourcing today - This study of global sourcing reveals that sourcing efforts are generally regarded as successful but 79 percent of respondents cannot quantify its benefits.

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Industry Specific

KPMG Business Alert - KPMG’s monthly e-newsletter from Singapore, features a summary of recent thought leadership publications, locally-organised events and other useful news.

Beyond the baby boomers: the rise of Generation Y - Demographic change will force the funds management industry to look beyond the ‘baby boomers’ to today’s Generation Y ‘twenty-somethings’, according to a new KPMG study.

Convergence Gathers Pace: Emerging trends in Asia Pacific ICT markets - This publication summarises the major short and medium-term trends at work in the Asia Pacific region’s ICT markets.

Global Telecommunications Financial Performance Tracker - This publication provides analysis by geographic region of seven key financial metrics. Offering a macro view of a global industry, this report examines the 2005 full-year results for the top 60 telecommunications operators in the world.

Guide to airports in Asia Pacific - The level of development of airport facilities varies considerably across Asia Pacific. This overview provides some perspectives on the potential for investment in airports covering 13 countries and jurisdictions in the region.

IFRS Accounting in the Telecommunications Industry - This publication considers what constitutes ‘best practice’ within the telecoms industry.

KPMG InSight - A quarterly publication that brings the thoughts of KPMG's member firm professionals from around the world; sharing insight into the latest, hottest topical issues and concerns.

Momentum; the 2006 KPMG GlobalAuto Executive Survey - This survey, based on interviews with 140 senior executives at vehicle manufacturers and automotive suppliers from around the globe, found increased competition and rising costs impacting the auto industry’s overall profitability.

Revolutionary Shifts, Evolutionary Responses: Global Investment Management in the 2000 - This report presents the conclusions of an investigation into the global investment management industry, reporting the views of the CEO's, CIO's and executive directors from over 200 investment management firms around the world, collectively managing funds of over 19 trillion Euros at the end of 2002.

The State of the Insurance Industry - This report provides an overview of significant industry activities occurring in the past quarter.

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