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Aritificial Intelligence and the Entrepreneur 
The fourth industrial revolution?

AGN Global Business Voice:
The world is musing over the potential impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Forrester predicted “A greater than 300% increase in investment in artificial intelligence in 2017”, and Sundar Pichai CEO of Google wrote in 2016 that; “The last 10 years have been about building a world that is mobile first. In the next 10 years, we will shift to a world that is AI first”.

ICT-Security Conference 2018 in Alpbach, Austria

Multicont and CRC were exhibitors at the largest security conference in the German-speaking region.

Swiss Corporate Tax Reform (TRAF)

On 28 September 2018, the Swiss Federal Parliament adopted the tax reform known as Tax Proposal 17 (TP 17) or Federal Act on Tax Reform and AHV Financing (TRAF). Amongst others, the aim of this tax reform is to guarantee the international acceptance of Swiss corporate taxation and thus the tax reform includes the abolition of cantonal tax privileges for holding, domicile and mixed companies. However, the tax reform also contains various measures, which ensure the tax attractiveness of Switzerland as a business location.

Meet our new Vice Chair of AGN EMEA!

At the last AGN Board meeting, it was announced that Martin Gibbs is the new Chair for AGN EMEA. Click here to find out more about Martin and the company Dafferns.

AGN welcomes new member firm in Ukraine: ACTIV-AUDIT

Audit company "ACTIVE-AUDIT" was founded in 2000 in Kiev (Ukraine) and for more than 18 years has been providing various types of audit services, starting with the audit of financial statements of enterprises and banks, ending with the audit of the information security management system.

AGN EMEA board welcomes new UK director

Martin Gibbs, Managing Partner of Coventry (UK) based member firm Dafferns LLP has been co-opted by the AGN EMEA regional Board.  

AGN welcomes new member firm in The Netherlands: Q Concepts

AGN International is pleased to announce the membership of a new firm in the Netherlands, namely Q-Concepts. The firm is audit and assurance focussed, with offices in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Rotterdam and Maastricht. They are a young, dynamic and fast-growing organisation that is aware of its role in the public environment and in their own words their name signifies that quality is their main focus..  

AGN Central & South America has a new Board of Directors

Candidates were presented at the CSA Regional Meeting in Austin. In this article you will get to know more about them.

AGN admits new firm in El Salvador

ACC Group was founded in 2001 by Managing Partners Ricardo Cuellar and Noe Portillo. The office is located in the financial district in San Salvador, El Salvador in Central America.

Bitcoin or bust? 
The crypto-currency goes from $600 to $17,000 in a year and splits our panel of experts

AGN Global Business Voice:
Only 12 months ago you could buy a Bitcoin for about $600; now the same thing would cost you around $12,000. In December, that figure was $17,000.
Bitcoin is one of the so-called ‘cryptocurrencies’ but the most successful by far: its market value has at times been greater than that of Disney or IBM. In fact, Bitcoin is bigger than the total currency supply of Denmark!