Grant Thornton is the world's seventh largest professional services network of independent accounting and consulting member firms which provide assurance, tax and advisory services to privately held businesses, public interest entities, and public sector entities. Grant Thornton International Ltd is a not-for-profit, non-practising, international umbrella membership entity organised as a. Jun 19, 2019 Grant Thornton LLP is an international accounting and management consulting firm. The firm manages 50 branches throughout the United States along with 80 centers worldwide. Grant Thornton provides.
Grant Thornton International Ltd's headquarters at.Grant Thornton is the world's seventh largest of independent accounting and member firms which provide assurance, tax and advisory services to privately held businesses, public interest entities, and public sector entities. Grant Thornton International Ltd is a not-for-profit, non-practising, international umbrella membership entity organised as a private company limited by guarantee. Grant Thornton International Ltd is incorporated in, England, and has no share capital.According to Grant Thornton International Ltd, member firms within the global organisation operate in over 130 countries employing over 53,000 personnel for a combined global revenue of US$5.45 billion. Contents.Early history The earliest origins of the name date back to 1904, when the UK firm of Thornton, Webb & Co was formed. Through a series of name changes this firm merged in 1959 with another UK firm, Baker & Co, which traced its origins to 1868, to form the firm Thornton Baker. In 1975 Thornton Baker merged with Kidston, Jackson, McBain, a UK firm which traced its origins to the Glaswegian accountant, Robert McCowan, who set up in practice in 1844, and was a founder of the Institute of Accountants and Actuaries in Glasgow in 1853.In the US, 26-year-old Alexander Richardson Grant founded Alexander Grant & Co in Chicago in 1924. Grant had been a senior accountant with Ernst & Ernst (now ).
Alexander Grant was committed to providing services to mid-sized companies.When Grant died in 1938, Alexander Grant & Co survived the change in leadership and continued to grow nationally. In 1969, Alexander Grant & Co joined with firms from Australia, Canada, and the United States to establish the organisation of Alexander Grant Tansley Witt. This organisation operated successfully for 10 years.In 1980 Alexander Grant & Co and Thornton Baker, firms with similar qualities, clients, personnel numbers and values, joined with 49 other firms to form a global organisation, Grant Thornton. In 1986, Alexander Grant & Co and Thornton Baker changed their names to Grant Thornton, reflecting their mutual affiliation and strategic alignment. Recent history In 2018 Grant Thornton UK LLP, the UK member firm of the network, was fined £4 million for audit misconduct after a former partner joined the audit committees of two organisations while Grant Thornton UK LLP was still auditing them.
Later that year, for unrelated reasons, Grant Thornton UK LLP's chief executive Sacha Romanovitch, their first female chief executive, announced she would step down.Early in 2019 the UK member firm lost the audit of after it failed to spot a £20m accounting black hole in its books, thereby triggering an investigation by the. Recent significant mergers. In 1987 Grant Thornton merged with Carter Chaloner & Kearns. Grant Thornton UK merged with in July 2007. Grant Thornton Russia merged with Rosexpertiza in January 2012. Grant Thornton China merged with Ascenda CPA in January 2012.
In May 2012 Grant Thornton Australia merged with several former BDO offices in Melbourne and Sydney. In July 2013, Grant Thornton Johannesburg merged with the local PKF member firm. In February 2018, Grant Thornton South Africa merged with SizweNtsalubaGobodo. In July 2018, Grant Thornton Japan added the Yusei Audit Co. And Yamada & partners Certified Public Tax Accountants’ Co. To the network, bringing Grant Thornton’s total headcount in Japan to over 1,600 people with combined revenues of over USD170 million.Although many of the firms now carry the Grant Thornton name, they are not all members of one international partnership.
Each member firm is a separate national entity, and governs itself and manages its administrative matters independently on a local basis. This is similar to other.Member firms Grant Thornton member firms service international work through their local International Business Centres — located in 40 major commercial centres throughout the world.Grant Thornton International Ltd carries out an annual global research project: the International Business Report, which surveys the views and expectations of over 11,500 privately held businesses across 40 economies.Moldova bank fraud scandal Grant Thornton Moldova has been accused of incompetence after being the auditor for three of Moldova's banks involved in the.
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The theft was discovered in November 2014 at Unibank, Banca de Economii and Banca Sociala, which Grant Thornton Moldova audited in 2011 and 2013 along with., one of the managing partners of Grant Thornton in, was appointed as the after the scandal broke out. Allegedly, the money was embezzled and spirited out of the country in complex financial transactions, some through UK companies. The authorities had to rescue the three banks with a bailout equivalent to half the annual budget. None of these allegations have been proven and Grant Thornton Moldova did qualify the audit reports for these banks.
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