Industrial group BLRT recently learned that it must comply with Estonia’s new Cybersecurity Act, which entered into force this year. Based on the company’s experience so far, BLRT Group IT Director Marek Trautmann has a clear message: “Compliance should not be left to chance.”
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Grant Thornton Baltic assessed the fair value of AS Ekspress Grupp in connection with the squeeze-out process initiated by its majority shareholder, HHL Rühm OÜ.
From a taxation and accounting perspective, gift cards are not merely payment instruments. Their treatment depends both on the type of gift card and on whether the card is sold or given away free of charge. Therefore, now is a good time to revisit when and how gift cards should be taxed and how they should be properly recognised in accounting.
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The wellbeing of accounting firms is primarily influenced by how well their clients are doing and how well they adapt to changes.
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Estonia has emerged as a global frontrunner in facilitating crypto asset services, offering a highly conducive environment for virtual asset service providers (VASPs) to thrive. With its forward-thinking legislation, favorable tax regime, streamlined licensing process, and vibrant fintech ecosystem, Estonia has positioned itself as a go-to destination for crypto-related businesses seeking a competitive edge.
It is currently a golden era for fraud but harm caused by bad actors is preventable if you regularly perform checks on business partners and clients and keep alert to specific warning signs, panellists on the Äripäev business daily radio programme “Kasvukursil” said.
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Grant Thornton Baltic's financial advisory team helped Kilingi-Nõmme Cooperative to prepare a financial model and forecast, which was the basis for the Net Present Value (NPV) scenario analysis.
For two consecutive years, Grant Thornton Baltic’s business risk and internal audit team served as the independent auditor of the programmes of the Estonian National Agency for the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps.
People first associate the word "audit" with balance sheets and income statements, in other words, a financial audit. It's much less common for them to think of an internal audit, the content and nature of which is completely different from a financial audit.
On 1 February 2023, the new Commercial Register Act entered into force, ushering in significant changes to the Commercial Code and other laws regulating the activities of corporate entities. Among other things, the changes also concern the net asset requirement, related to one of the major changes – the removal of the requirement of minimum share capital for private limited companies.
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Have you ever heard of the Certificate on Financial Statements, (CFS)? If your project received support from Horizon 2020 or Horizon Europe , you definitely have to be up to date with that.
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The Employment Contracts Act provides for compensation for both employees and employers in a number of situations. In Supreme Court practice, the compensation has been viewed as indemnifying a loss, and as such, both parties have to prove that they incurred losses.
This article covers the key differences between MiCAR and MLTFPA, the fate of the old license, new taxonomies introduced in MiCAR, key regulatory requirements for CASPs, key regulatory requirements for issuing assets and possible redundant requirements of MLTFPA.