Six specialised areas of consultancy services

  1. Corporate Finance, Venture Capital, International Finance, Derivative Securities

    Advising on capital budgeting techniques, including real options; implementing statistical analysis related to business issues; preparing business plans for raising venture capital; consulting on financing decisions related to capital structure, dividend policy, and the use of alternative financing instruments in Hong Kong; providing professional training seminars on corporate finance, derivative securities, and Value-at-Risk (VAR).

    Prof. Michael Firth, Dr Paul Brockman, Dr Dennis Chan, Dr Li Jiang, Mr Rupert Leung, Mr David Li, Dr Oliver Rui, Dr Steven Wang and Dr Wayne Yu

  2. Strategic Cost Management, Product Cost System, Activity-based Costing/Management, Balance Scorecard, Productivity Analysis, Supply Chain Management, ERP, Environmental Cost Analysis and Reporting, Management Information Systems and Customers Relations Management

    Consulting, designing and implementing strategic cost management systems and accounting information systems; advising on selection and implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning systems; preparing environmental cost analysis and reporting; and training on strategic cost management and information systems issues.

    Prof. Amy Lau, Ms Sarah Cheng, Dr Marinilka Kimbro, Dr Simon Leung, Mr David Li, and Mr Gerry Li and Dr Susana Yuen

  3. Hong Kong Tax Compliance, Hong Kong Tax Planning for Businesses and Individuals, Due Diligence Checks, Fringe Benefit Packages, Tax Considerations for Inbound and Outbound Investment, Forms of Investments, Repatriation of Funds, Transfer Pricing Rules and Legislation, Anti-tax Avoidance, Tax Objections and Appeals, Penalty Assessments, Tax Investigation and Field Audits, Cross-border Transactions with the Chinese mainland, PRC Tax Implications for Travelling Executives, Double Taxation Arrangement with China, Incentive Schemes and Location Choice in the Chinese mainland

    Advising on and preparing tax computations and returns for individuals and businesses; consulting, designing and implementing strategic tax schemes in line with business plans; advising on potential tax exposures of business transactions and advance ruling arrangements; preparing responses to tax inquiries, tax appeals and penalties, and back duty cases; organizing and conducting in-house tax training courses; and conducting tax research.

    Dr Samuel Chan, Mr Daniel Cheung, Dr Stella Cho and Mr Percy Wong

  4. Takeovers and Mergers, Corporate Governance, Executive Pay, Accounting Choice, Measuring Investment Performance, Employee Participation Schemes

    Providing consultancy and advisory services for takeovers, mergers, and reorganizations, including advice on strategies, terms, and implementation. Performing benchmarking of CEO and top management pay; providing advice to members of audit and remuneration committees. Advising on corporate governance structures to help facilitate transparency and enhance shareholder wealth. Developing and implementing employee participation schemes and ESOP's.

    Prof. Michael Firth and Ms Christina Ng

  5. Financial Reporting, Economic Value Added, Environmental Accounting and Finance, Comparative and International Accounting - GAAP, Listing and Capital Markets Trends, Earnings Management, Valuation and Financial Statement Analysis, Auditing and Accounting Issues and Standards

    Helping corporate managers analyze relations between market values and fundamental values; designing and implementing incentive-based performance evaluation or compensation systems based on the concepts of Market Value Added and/or Economic Value Added; developing econometric models for predicting stock prices, financial distress, credit risk and cost of raising equity and debt capitals through financial statement analysis; designing and implementing strategies for environmental reporting; analyzing cross-country comparisons of accounting and auditing standards and policies as well as earnings management strategies.

    Prof. Michael Firth, Prof. Kim Jeong-bon, Dr Marinilka Kimbro and Dr Thomas Lau

  6. China Accounting and Finance Research Centre: Corporate Governance, Incentive Schemes and Internal Control for Restructuring High-tech or State-owned Enterprises, Initial Public Offerings of Private Enterprises and Hi-tech Projects, Stock Markets, Bank Management

    Enhancing and promoting research and academic development in the field of China accounting and finance. Performing academic, policy-oriented and practice-oriented research on China accounting and finance issues; and providing professional consulting and high-level training programmes to companies, institutions and government bodies in the Chinese mainland.

    Dr Gongmeng Chen, Dr Li Jiang and Dr Oliver Rui

     

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