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Often people neglect to consider that the same key interest rate affects not only businesses' loan capability and finances but also taxation.

The wellbeing of accounting firms is primarily influenced by how well their clients are doing and how well they adapt to changes.

The rapid development of artificial intelligence and the arrival of ChatGPT on the scene will not leave accountants on the street, but there will be an increasing need to get in-service training, re-train and think more like a CFO does.

In the end of 2022, Grant Thornton Baltic received the Partner Excellence Award from its cooperation partner, the global business services provider ADP, for 15 years of excellent cooperation in payroll processing for ADP clients in the Baltic countries.

Tartu is nicknamed the city of good ideas. In Grant Thornton Baltic’s office in Tartu city centre there are not only good ideas but good specialists, satisfied customers and high-quality services.

For Grant Thornton Baltic OÜ, the 2021/2022 season in Estonia was very successful - our turnover increased by 24% compared to the previous financial year. The impressive growth took us to the second place in the ranking of auditing companies compiled by business newspaper Äripäev.

In our new videos, you can learn about Grant Thornton Baltic's main areas of activity - accounting, auditing and advisory - as well as our culture: yes, we are not dry numbers people, but we appreciate humor, and we are helpful and solution-seeking with both clients and colleagues.

The sample of Grant Thornton's recent interim report with comments has been prepared in accordance with all the latest amendments to IFRS and is a good assistant in preparing IFRS interim reports.

In May, the latest Estonian company will become listed on Nasdaq First North, the alternative list of the Tallinn Stock Exchange – the digital product sale platform Punktid Technologies AS.

The member firms of Grant Thornton International Ltd (GTIL) have extensive expertise in the application of IFRS. GTIL, through its IFRS Team, develops general guidance that supports its member firms’ commitment to high quality, consistent application of IFRS and is therefore pleased to share our insights by publishing ‘IFRS Example Consolidated Financial Statements 2021’ (Example Financial Statements).

Grant Thornton partner and head of outsourcing Anastasia Borovaja has been working for more than 10 years to ensure that her day-to-day work offers an unforgettable customer experience and high-quality service while the company is also seen as an attractive employer.

It will soon be time to prepare annual reports for the financial year 2020. Estonian companies with parent companies in the UK will have to take into account new rules.

An annual report can be a great calling card and the secret to doing business more successfully, even though Estonian business people aren’t all that active in submitting them. Last year was an exception: the deadline for submission of annual financial statements was postponed by several months and a larger number of the reports came in on time.

Under a European Union directive, publicly listed companies must adopt the European Single Electronic Format, ESEF. But they will probably not have to file ESEF format annual reports for another year.

This summer, the state suspended its payments to the second pension pillar of working people. During October, however, people will be able to decide whether or not to continue paying 2% of their gross salary to the pension fund. Kaia Salu, Group Manager of Grant Thornton Baltic's Outsourcing department, opens the subject in her article.

Auditors, accountants and other white-collar workers have recently been working mainly from home offices. We can expect that more and more audits and accounting procedures will be done without actually meeting face to face. Grant Thornton Baltic partner and sworn auditor Mart Nõmper discusses in his article how has this new work organization affected us and what is to be expected in the near future?