Thailand Corporate Finance Forum: Session Topics 2001-2012
Session Topics: 2001
• Currency management: A hedger’s handbook
• Risk management: Thinking the unthinkable: minimizing risk the high-tech way
• Non-equity financing and capital market development: Prospects for corporate funding in troubled times
• Corporate taxation planning: Managing and minimizing corporate taxation liabilities
• Taxation reform: Policy guidelines from practitioners
• E-finance in Thailand: A performance balance sheet in world context
• Financial reporting: Best practices in annual report presentation
• ISO certification: It’s quality that counts
Session Topics: 2002
• International accounting standards: Implications for Thailand practice
• Credit ratings: Their meanings and value
• Directors and officers’ liability: The risks and how to mitigate them
• Thailand’s new transfer pricing regulations: principles and practice
• Facilitating and securing foreign transactions: Export import credit and factoring
• E-Business in action: Corporate finance and the electronic super – corridor
• Structured Finance: Tax and funding advantages and leasing
• Good governance and effective financial control: An action agenda
Session Topics: 2003
• AFTA: What do we do now?: 2003 duties reduction: How can we benefit?
• Corporate cash and treasury management: Managing risk and maximizing opportunity
• Getting paid in Asia: Best practices for credit analysis and collection in Thailand
• Human Resource Issues and Benefits: HR for the CFO: Trends, issues, tax and retention
• Corporate Tax: Year end tax planning
• Transfer Pricing: One year on: Case studies and lessons learned
• Mergers and Acquisitions: Risks and opportunities in Thailand
• The evolving role of the finance function: From scorekeeper to business partner
• Raising Capital: Access to capital markets
• Effective dispute management
• IT-Information Security: Risk management and the CFO’s responsibility
• Property funds for public offering
Session Topics: 2004
• International financial reporting standards (IFRS): Issues for the CFO
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act: How these regulations affect your business in Thailand
• AFTA and Free Trade Agreements: Customs procedures and pricing policies
• The hospitality industry: a changing focus for a changing market
• Regional Operating Headquarters: Tax policies and incentives
• Financial Instruments: Special Purpose Vehicles and IAS 39
• Efficiency Enhancement through Business Information Systems
• Taxation and Transfer Pricing: Critical Issues, Recent Developments and Outlook
• Responsibilities and Liabilities of Company Directors and Officers
• Due diligence: how it adds value to the transaction process
Session Topics: 2005
• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Thailand Practice: what’s the big deal?
• Customs Post Audit: a time bomb ticking in the inventory warehouse
• Corporate Tax Update 2005: staying Ahead of the taxman
• Public Private Partnership: solution to business infrastructure needs?
• Corporate Governance: the new benchmark of company quality and performance
• Basel II: good governance in banking: how it will affect business and bank borrowing
• When the Taxman comes calling: handling tax investigations and resolving subsequent disputes
• Mergers and Acquisitions: avoiding the growing pains of corporate expansion
• Business Intelligence: building, maintaining and protecting the corporate memory bank
• Corporate Fraud in Thailand: presenting the results of Thailand’s Fraud Survey
• Financing Services – Risk Management
Session Topics: 2006
• BOI Policies and Privileges: maximising benefits from new policies, tax and customs regulations
• Economic Value Management: the key to value creation
• Accounting for Consolidation: incorporating subsidiaries and associated companies into financial statements
• Key issues in tax and transfer pricing: annual tax update and outlook
• Managing information system security: the roles of the CFO and CIO
• Improving performance efficiency: rapid cost reduction and efficient cash management
• Financial Reporting and Auditing Standards: preparing for the fundamental changes ahead
• Ensuring Compliance in Tax Assessment and Reporting: Recent Case Experience
• The meaning of value: uncovering true value for business acquisition and operation
• Information Technology: the key to business value enhancement, governance and cost reduction
• Gaining benefits from trade liberalization: customs free zones, rules of origin, and free trade agreements
• Reform of Accounting Standards: important implications of enforcement of IAS 39
Session Topics: 2007
• Deferred tax accounting: New provisions and how to implement them
• Transforming the financial function: from tradition to innovation by technology
• Investments in Associate and Subsidiary Companies: new rules for accounting at cost
• Annual tax update and Foreign Business Law changes
• IT Governance: improving business performance while sustaining compliance
• Thai Accounting Standards: moving towards full conformity
• Key issues in international tax planning: income migration and deferred strategies
• Employee Benefits: new upcoming regulations for post-employment corporate liabilities
• Fraud Risk Management: fraud incidence in Thailand and strategies for prevention, detection and response
• Corporate Governance Insights: the global scene and what works best
• Transfer Pricing: managing and mitigating Revenue and Customs Department risks
• Accounting for foreign exchange fluctuations: implications for ‘functional’ and ‘reporting’ currencies
Session Topics: 2008
• BOI incentives update and Current status of Foreign Business Act
• Accounting judgments, estimates, and restatements: management’s drive to make its numbers
• Information System Risk Management: assuring IT security and compliance
• Investing in ASEAN: maximising tax privilege benefits and minimising risks
• Fraud Risk Management: prevention is better than cure
• Software Asset Management: an essential new dimension to consultancy and audit
• Signposts to good accounting governance: recent Thai Accounting standards, the roadmap for IFRS in Thailand
• When the tax man calls: managing Revenue and Customs Department audits and investigations
• Investing overseas: new opportunities for Thailand-based companies
• The Credit Crunch: Implications for Business
• The CFO of Tomorrow: Vision 2020
• The Adoption of International Standards: the Lessons Learned
Session Topics: 2009
• International Executive Service: Immigration and corporate tax planning for short term assignments
• Managing Corporate Taxation during Recession: Opportunities and risks
• Managing international taxation exposure: The opportunities and risks of cross-border transactions
• Board of Investment Incentives: How to maximise privilege opportunities
• Getting to Grips with Transfer Pricing Risk
• Research and Development Incentives: The rewards for innovation
• Human Resource Management: Through downturn to recovery
• Optimizing IT Value: Taking action in turbulent times?
• Enterprise Risk Management: Managing risk in uncertain times
• SMEs Business Development: Opportunities and challenges
• Leveraging on Technology to improve business performance
• Supply Chain, Customs and Consumer Issues: Asia Pacific Trends for 2010
Session Topics: 2010
• ASEAN + 2 Taxation Regulatory Update
• Risk Management Strategies: the role of hedging and futures in business planning
• Free float versus fixed rate currency management: the options for export, tourism, and investment competitiveness
• Thailand Business Outlook: operating environment and risks mitigation
• Personal tax planning in an international perspective
• Minimising International Taxation Liabilities: new regional operating headquarters regulations
• Foreign Exchange Risk Management: hedging, futures and accounting issues
• Key Issues in Corporate Finance Risk Management: Due Diligence in mergers, acquisitions and restructuring
• Recent key tax issues arising from Revenue and Customs Department Practice and Rulings: Value-Added Tax and Customs Duties
• Thai Transfer Pricing Rules in Practice: minimising transfer pricing risk
• International Financial Reporting Standards: how to manage the transition and cope with the challenges
Session Topics: 2011
• The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act: A new constraint on business with far-reaching implications
• Human Capital: The vital factor for enterprise achievement
• ROH Adjustment and Re-gained Benefits in 2011
• Audit Policy: Lessons from the crisis
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Legislation: Corporate risk management and “whistle blowing” as a compliance tool
• Free Trade Areas and Foreign Trade Taxes: Current status and new developments
• Outsourcing: advantages and limitations of delegating non-core activities to specialist external organisations
• Mergers and Acquisitions: Key factors for success, taxation and human resources issues
• Year-end Tax Planning Update and Outlook: Closing off on 2011 tax liabilities and preparing for 2012
Session Topics: 2012
• Global Rebalancing: reviewing the Asian business strategy
• The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA): a financial time-bomb with a burning fuse
• Customs Principles and Practice in Thailand: challenges and clarifications on royalty Issues
• Preventing Procurement Fraud: Integrity makes sense
• Withholding Tax and Value-Added Tax:handing tax abilities on cross-border transactions
• Limitations to free trade: present and possible future export controls
• Software Asset Management: how to avoid over-spending and penalties for misuse
• Asia's Market in 2013: Strategies for Riding the Rapids
• Transfer Pricing: lessons from a decade of experience
• Analytics for Compliance and Fraud Risk: anticipating the unforeseen
• The General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAARs): refined tool to improve Thailand to tackle tax avoidance?
• Global trends in talent management: can we effectively measure potential?
• Year-end Tax Planning Update and Outlook: Closing Off on 2012 tax liabilities and preparing for 2013
