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The International Board of Directors have voted in favour of admitting to full membership the following firm:

GIP Audit
Nekrasova Str. 114
Minsk 220121
Belarus
Tel: (+375 29) 509 4178
Fax: (+375 17) 287 8004
E-mail: gip@mail.by
Contact: Tatyana Nabokova

A completed application form has been received from a prospective member firms in:

Belgium (Massenhoven)
USA (New York State)

ENQUIRIES

From firms seeking membership (since the last worldwide update) in:

Colombia (Bogota)
India (Cochin)
Romania (Bucharest)
Slovenia (Celje)
United Kingdom (Norwich)
Vietnam (Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Buon Me Thuot)

MEETINGS

World Congress 2007 – this is being held in Amsterdam over the period September 30 thru October 2.  Time is getting close and although the official date for registration has passed, there is still some availability of hotel rooms.  So if you (or any of your partners and staff) haven’t yet registered, please do so quickly.  The registration pack, including the downloadable registration form, can be found at:
www.agn.org/members/programs/wc2007

The Company’s Annual General Meeting will be held on Monday, October 1 during the Congress.  Copies of the 2006 Annual Report of the Company have recently been sent to all international contact partners.  This document includes the Chairman’s Report on the year, the audited financial statements of the Company for 2006 and details of the Annual General Meeting, noting the resolutions to be voted upon.  This will shortly be up on the AGN website (Route: Members/Private Home/Log in/Members Only/International/Annual Reports).

A Board of Directors meeting is being held over September 28 and 29, immediately preceding the World Congress in Amsterdam.  The original timing of the meeting has been extended by one day to fully discuss the future of our organisation and a presentation on this will be made subsequently at the Congress.

The Central & South American regional meeting was held last month in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.  It was superbly organised by SCI, the local member there and was a very productive and discussive meeting.  Further details of the meeting should shortly be up on the regional website, which is currently being updated so that it can replace the regions static pages on the international website – this should be achieved soon.

The July 2007 edition of Businessbrief has been mailed out to all members together with a copy of each tax brochure published by the European Regional Tax Committee.  An order form was also attached to request more copies.

The August edition of Worldwidelink will shortly be published and sent to all member firms.

SH+C Wagner Bumes Winkler GmbH (Regensburg) & SH+C Schwarz Hempe & Collegen GmbH (Munich) Germany - Excellence recognised by FOCUS-Money.  In the August 2007 issue 35/3007 of a leading German financial magazine “FOCUS-Money” SH+C made the list of the 140 best tax advisory offices in Germany.  The offices were evaluated based on the tax knowledge, know-how, quality of service, specialisation and business success.  46,000 German tax offices were asked to participate in the survey.  Both the Regensburg and Munich offices were included on the list.  For more information, please visit:
www.shc.de

Referral Fee Reporting – the referral fee returns for the six months ending April 30, 2007 to be submitted under the new e-reporting system are due by the end of August.  To date, there are still a large number of firms which have not completed this.  If you have not done so, please access the system at:
https://www.agn-hq.org and submit your return as soon as possible.  Even if you don’t have anything to report, please ensure you submit a Nil return; a downloadable User Manual is available after login.  For the current reporting period only complete the referral fee information and not the Annual Return data.

Moniker Competition – you still have a few days left to submit your suggestion for a new meaning for the initials A…G…N…  A prize for the best entry, as decided by the Board, is available – rules are as advised in the April/May Worldwide Update.

Worldwide Survey – a worldwide survey has recently been published by the Managing Partners Forum entitled “The MPF Global 500 Annual Report 2007”.  This report provides a listing of the world’s top professional service firms operating in ten different sectors, comprising accountancy, management consultancy, technology services, marketing services, HR consultancy, design, property consultancy, law, investment banking and IT consultancy.  AGN is included in this listing as the 95th largest such organisation in the world.

Website – All international contact partners will have recently received from the International Executive Office a questionnaire requesting responses in respect of your local country regulatory requirements.  The intention is that such responses will be put on the AGN website for access by the membership as a whole.  Responses have been received in respect of 31 countries and these have now been included in the AGN website (Route: Members/Private Home/Login/International/Professional Standards/Local Country Professional Standards).  The information requested will compliment that in respect of Professional Indemnity cover, which already exists on the website.  If you have not already completed this questionnaire, please do so as soon as possible.

AGN Wall Maps:  this map has recently been sent out to those member firms who requested copies.

WORLD DIRECTORY UPDATE

AUSTRALIA

HALL CHADWICK (ADELAIDE)

has changed its name to:

LAMBERTS HALL CHADWICK

and the new contact details are:

225 Greenhill Road (Cnr. Fullarton Road)
Dulwich, SA 5056
(P.O. Box 756, Kent Town, SA 5071)
Australia
Tel:  (+61 8) 8364 8000
Fax: (+61 8) 8364 8199
E-mail: iswan@lhcsa.com.au
URL: www.lambertshallchadwick.com.au
International Contact Partner : Ian Swan

Marco De Corso & Pio De Corso have left and incoming partners are:
Carlos De Pizzol & Tony Ryan (New Tax Partner)

:HALL CHADWICK (DARWIN)

 has changed its name to:

 LAMBERTS HALL CHADWICK

the address and telephone number remain the same, but the fax number is: (+61 8) 8364 8199

the E-mail and URL address are as above.
International Contact Partner : Ian Swan

Marco De Corso & Pio De Corso have left and incoming partners are:
Carlos De Pizzol & Tony Ryan (New Tax Partner)

CHILI

GUERRA & RABY ASOCS.
have left the organisation

VA BUSINESS ASSURANCE SERVICES

have a new e-mail address:

vabusiness@habari.co.tz