For more than 50 years, BDO has worked with thousands of clients in exploration, production and services providing customised solutions in every major Natural Resources business centre in the world.

The natural resources industry faces a number of challenges in today's market including fluctuating commodity prices, growing production and exploration costs, access to finance, shortages of skilled labour and ESG (environmental, social, governance). With the industry in transition, companies are now having to look to the future and must strive to become "Lean, Green, Digital" machines.

Our global practice extends to most of the world's natural resource countries, with five centres of excellence in place to help drive innovation, strategy and services. BDO leads the market in many places around the world, with unique skills and experience designed to help drive our clients business success.

Rapid change and innovation are built into the DNA of the TMT industries. With demand surging and evolving, there are limitless opportunities to harness your potential and grow. 

At the same time, the tech sector faces risks that are forcing companies to rethink their roadmaps for success. Economic volatility, geopolitical tensions, tax and regulatory uncertainty and unforeseen supply chain issues are just a few of the disruptive dynamics reshaping the landscape. As complexities increase, innovation alone won’t be enough to capitalize on growth. 

At BDO, we have a deep understanding of the industry issues you are facing, whether you are looking to expand globally, engage in M&A or exit strategies, prepare for shifting regulations, transform your accounting functions or more. 

No matter your tech sector — hardware, software, media, telecom or beyond — we provide the resources, tools and experience to help your organization get an edge. Our comprehensive portfolio of assurance, tax and advisory services can help you unlock opportunities and bring your vision to life. 

The professional services sector is facing a period of rapid change and many professional services firms are facing new challenges driven by the downturn in the economy. With clients demanding excellent service delivery as well as value for money, businesses must strive to deliver top quality service while at the same time making prudent use of their resources.

BDO’s clients come from many different professions - including law firms, surveyors, architects, management consultants and recruitment consultants – and we have a strong reputation as a leading adviser in this sector.

Our professional services experts across the world can advise you on not only how to cope with a rapidly changing business environment, but to gain positive advantage from it. Our services include ownership advice, ensuring regulatory compliance, tax minimisation and partnership dispute resolution.

To discover how BDO can assist your business please visit your local BDO member firm site

At BDO we have a wealth of in-house knowledge and experience in the real estate and construction sectors. Our multidisciplinary team take a specialist view on the actual and future developments that impact the lifecycle of property and clients’ REC industry operations. Our best-in-class people utilise the resources and global footprint of our international organisation to give you key audit, accounting and tax services and a vast variety of consultative advice including risk management, transaction, corporate finance, valuation and legal services.

Our commitment to exceptional service underpins our long-lasting relationships that focus on partnership and growth. We assist our clients according to their needs with a full service approach or in a specialist role, in their domestic and cross border construction and investment project. And we support with industry relevant research and surveys and events and take an active role in various industry organisations.

Our experienced local teams will take the time to get to know you and your real estate business. Whether you are a developer, an investor or a fund manager, we will deliver tailored, commercially focussed and technically proficient solutions to you as a client active in one of the world’s largest and most important industries.

The public sector is facing many challenges. Governments and public sector organisations are under pressure to accomplish more each year, and expenditure is under constant scrutiny. BDO shares its thought leadership in a number of ways, staying at the forefront of this ever-evolving space.

Our aim is to contribute to achieving an effective public sector that offers services matching budget and stakeholders’ expectations. We offer a fresh approach. We bring an independent view to our collaborations to provide practical, innovative and bespoke solutions tailored to the public sector.

By combining our deep understanding of the sector and its stakeholders with specialised technical, process oriented and analytical skills, BDO can contribute to both improved management and control, as well as to organisational and service development, quality enhancement, and efficiency improvements.

At the heart of our services, you will always find analytical thoroughness. This provides our clients with confidence that our proposed solutions will be the best possible starting point as an enabler of change. BDO’s mission is to demonstrate the interaction between activity, efficiency and quality in public services and administration. BDO reveals the reasons why change must be made, not merely the symptoms.

BDO likes to challenge the established truths. Our services are a driving force in creating new knowledge and motivating further development.

BDO’s Government & Public Sector practice serves clients across many levels of government, including regional, state and local, drawing on deep experience to provide strategic and innovative solutions. Supported by an integrated global network, we also help government leaders and international organisations develop tailored strategies and implement practical solutions that make the most of their limited resources.

BDO’s consumer business expertise combines the retail, tourism, leisure and hospitality industries.

The retail and wholesale sector has been at the heart of BDO's client base for many years. We focus our full suite of core services on the needs of the country-centric retailer/wholesaler that is taking its first steps into international markets and where ownership and management are intrinsically linked. The growth and development of BDO’s international tax practice and business outsourcing offerings have allowed us to develop our service proposition to the major multinationals within the sector. Over the years, we have had the privilege to support clients throughout all stages of growth, from start up, through first finance raising and on to private equity ownership and listing on a public exchange.

BDO has significant experience in the sports & fitness and travel & tourism industries, working with international businesses across restaurants and bars, betting and gaming entities and hotels. We have a thorough understanding of the sector as a whole and a deep level of expertise in each industry area. The services we provide to our clients include business and risk assurance, tax planning, corporate finance assistance, performance improvement advice and personal wealth management and our success is directly linked to the personal relationships we build with them.

As more and more groups in the tourism and leisure sector look to expand overseas, BDO can help them to work through the options available to them – be it a joint venture, an acquisition or opening a branch or operating a franchise. Our experts ensure that when our client expand their businesses overseas they have planned for the most efficient tax structures and have the necessary knowledge on the ground.

To discover how BDO can assist your business please visit your local BDO member firm site

Heightened SEC and regulatory scrutiny. Increasing competition. Cybersecurity concerns. These matters, and unprecedented amounts of international legislation and oversight, are making business more complex for financial services companies.

To help our clients respond quickly and appropriately to these cross-border developments, the expert teams for financial markets at BDO member firms have joined forces in the Global Financial Services Group.

Our Group gives us the ability to represent the interests of our clients with a uniform position in dealings with regulators and legislators at the European and global levels. We are also able to respond quickly and competently to matters that are cross-border.

BDO’s Financial Services Practice helps clients in the financial services sector succeed in a changing landscape that is marked by regulatory reform, sustainability aspects, disruptive technology, and new service-delivery channels.

Our services - including governance, risk, compliance, business process reviews and more - are tailored to meet the unique needs of financial services organisations. Across all of these segments, BDO brings an in-depth understanding of the complexities of the financial services industry and the unique challenges facing our clients’ businesses.

As a global network spanning 164 countries and territories, we address both domestic and international needs.

We pride ourselves on the relationships we develop with our clients, and in turn, our clients value our combination of service quality and technical expertise.

Under more pressure than ever to generate returns, fund managers need sound value-creation strategies to mitigate risk and generate the most value from their investments. 

In today’s competitive deal landscape, it’s essential to demonstrate differentiation to limited partners by highlighting optimized outcomes and maximized value. Through a multidisciplinary team, global network and account-managed approach, we bring vast experience and knowledge to deliver comprehensive value enhancement at every stage of the lifecycle. We provide a single point of contact, integrating our tax, assurance, advisory and digital offerings for high-quality, consistent service while leveraging best practices across your portfolio to help drive improved ROI. 

From pre-deal strategy and transaction support to post-deal value creation and exit support, we help fund managers achieve the greatest potential from their portfolio investments. 

BDO is proud to be an Associate Member of Invest Europe.

How we can help

Cutting-Edge Due Diligence

Delivering an in-depth evaluation and synthesis of risks and opportunities through our proprietary and holistic Quality of Business™ approach.

Value Creation Roadmap

Developing an action plan that prioritizes performance improvement, assesses costs, defines responsibilities and tracks and measures progress.

Organizational Transformation

Helping portfolio companies improve inefficient operations and manual processes through our digital capabilities and organizational design tools.

Cost Synergy Realization

Helping portfolio companies achieve day one savings and capture incremental synergies through cost-reduction and transformation initiatives.

Seamless Add-On Integration

Providing funds with interim leadership, post-M&A dispute support and market mapping in harmony

with an integration roadmap prepared in advance.

Maximizing ROI at Exit

Assessing exit readiness through a critical analysis of gaps and opportunities and identifying the exit

path that yields the greatest potential ROI.

The COVID-19 global pandemic has demonstrated how quickly crises can escalate, and why the healthcare industry must be ready to react and adapt. From individual patient care to population health, the disruption to the system was insurmountable.

It’s time to learn the lessons and prepare for the future of healthcare. What comes next will be more collaborative, connective and patient centric than ever before.

To survive in today’s environment, healthcare leaders must identify ways to earn the trust of patients and healthcare professionals alike through performance improvement, innovation and digital transformation. They must be better equipped to shift out of reactive mode and make fast, effective decisions to improve outcomes and save lives.

BDO provides direct access to a global team of passionate partners who offer fresh thinking, candid conversations and tailored solutions to help build sustainable and affordable healthcare for all. We stand with you to address your current situation, unlock opportunities and uncover hidden threats, rapidly helping envision what’s next to improve quality and access to care. We help you get to the data you can trust faster and easier and turn it into actionable insights.

Only then can you more than react — you can rethink.

GLOBAL TRENDS IMPACTING HEALTHCARE

Healthcare has always been a crucial sector worldwide. What COVID-19 has done is placed the industry front and center of everyone’s minds. In this podcast, we explore how global trends are impacting the industry and what that means on a practical level for healthcare organisations and their sponsors both in the public and private sectors.

Learn more about how providers are responding to these challenges from Steven Shill, Global Healthcare Leader, in our Global Healthcare Podcast

WHO WE SERVE

We serve a broad range of public and private healthcare clients, including:

• Government Health Agencies
• Hospitals
• National and International Healthcare Agencies & Nonprofits
• Municipal Health Agencies
• Academic Healthcare
• Social Services Health Agencies
• Long-Term Care/Elder Care
• Physician & Other Provider Groups
• Private Equity & Real Estate Investors
• Pharmaceutical Companies
• Other Professional Services: Law Firms, Architects & Engineers

In recent years, manufacturers have developed their position to cope with the threats from low cost emerging countries and they now aspire to provide excellent service, supported by extensive R&D and innovation. Manufacturers have increasingly used the low cost emerging economies as part of their business strategy and many are now developing active positions in these new world markets.

We have an excellent understanding of the issues affecting the manufacturing sector and this focus enables us to tailor the wide range of bespoke services we offer in the network and to apply our skills and knowledge to help our manufacturing clients achieve their objectives.

We also focus on specific sub-sectors to help improve our knowledge and our service to clients. These include:

•Automotive

•Engineering

•Manufacturing technology

•Aerospace and defence

•Food and drink

•Environment related manufacturing

To discover how BDO can assist your business please visit your local BDO member firm site

Providing you with the industry insights, practical commercial advice and technical expertise that contribute to your success is what motivates and drives our Shipping, Rail and Road, Aviation and Logistics team.

Our clients range from individuals and owner managed businesses through to publicly listed companies around the globe. They benefit from our deep and extensive experience delivering accountancy services and business advice. We also pride ourselves on our commitment to building relationships with our clients.

The services we deliver include technical accountancy, tax advisory, corporate finance, governance, restructuring and insolvency. A partner-led approach means you are able to build a strong, personal and professional relationship with an experienced, expert advisor.

Industry expertise across shipping, rail and road, aviation and logistics

We advise clients in every area of the industry. They include ship owners and operators, ports and port agents, hauliers, contract logistics and 3PLs, through to air, rail and bus passenger transport companies, as well as the businesses that support them such as technology and automation providers.

To ensure that Shipping, Rail and Road, Aviation and Logistics companies are able to address Environmental Social and Governance issues as well as carbon emission issues effectively, they need to work with advisers who understand this challenging environment, have a broad-ranging expertise within it and strong international reach. We are those advisers. At BDO, our core purpose is ‘people helping people’ – our people, our clients and our communities - this guides every action we take to ensure a more sustainable organisation.

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To continue their critical work, nonprofits need to navigate challenges of their own: Budgetary constraints, complex funding, compliance, technology, donor stewardship are only some of the hurdles they face. 

Each nonprofit organisation mission is unique, and so are the ways they overcome obstacles and seek opportunities. BDO professionals bring a specialiSed focus to the distinct concerns of the sector. We tailor approaches to help organiSations maintain a nonprofit heart and business mindset, so they can improve financial and operational health while expanding their impact.

BDO understands the unique audit, tax and advisory requirements of the not-for-profit sector, which comes from our experience in acting for the sector over many years. We know that not-for-profit organisations are founded upon strong relationships. A value BDO shares and is known for.

Our experienced not-for-profit teams work closely with you to design cost-effective approaches to improving operational performance, while maintaining a strong commitment to the communities you serve.

We take time to develop a solid understanding of your organisation, your mission and values, and combine this with our in-depth knowledge of issues affecting the not-for-profit sector to deliver proven results. We can help you navigate:

• National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
• Key business issues
• Global donor services
• Tax exemptions and concessions
• Strategic business planning
• Salary packaging solutions
• Fleet review services
• Identification of risk in the not-for-profit sector
• IT strategy and infrastructure
• Project management implementation
• Compliance including regulatory and financial reporting.

We understand that ‘not-for-profit’ describes a number of different types of organisations, including educational institutions, charities, healthcare, sporting and community clubs, and membership organisations. With this front of mind, we provide advice that reflects the nature of your organisation — with your unique needs, challenges and opportunities.

An ever-changing and complex business landscape brings with it a range of opportunities for you and your business. Whether you’re a owner managed business or a multinational listed entity navigating these challenges, BDO can provide you with the services you seek.

The strength of our network is based on our professionals providing exceptional client service of the highest quality.

BDO’s dedicated and highly experienced advisory services teams across the world have the depth of industry and technical resources to respond rapidly to our clients’ needs.

Dealing with us is different. Our personable and pragmatic approach ensures strong working relationships with all our clients that go beyond the individual assignments we work on. BDO offers a high level of access to partners and a hands-on style which results in timely, straightforward advice and insight.

Across the world, BDO provides the optimum blend of accountancy expertise, sector understanding and personal attributes in order to meet your unique challenges.

Our areas

• Deal Advisory
• Cybersecurity
• Global forensics
• Risk Advisory Services

Specialist expertise to support you. BDO Business Services & Outsourcing (BSO) can provide you with a full range of finance, accounting, and business services to support your growth and help you manage changing regulatory and reporting requirements within local markets and around the globe. Whatever the size and ambition of your operations, BDO can manage your accounting and compliance burdens to leave you free to focus on your business goals.

Global

With a global network and understanding, we provide the infrastructure to make you and your business more efficient, wherever in the world you operate. We work as a single team across services provided and deliver everything you need, locally or globally, through a single point of contact and under one international services agreement.

Domestic

The BDO way is delivering high-quality services as a partner alongside you for your journey. Our BSO services are delivered by trusted experts that understand your business and situation, working alongside you as a member of your team. 

Beyond supporting your compliance requirements, we can act as your business sounding board, providing business insight, knowledge and proven solutions. We can help you create a clear path to reach your goals and allow you to focus on what matters while we support the day-to-day financial management of your business.

What we offer

Be it domestically or globally as a trusted partner, our solution offers:

• Efficient processes: helping you streamline operations and maximise cost-efficiency while ensuring full compliance with all applicable laws and regulations 
• The opportunity to unlock the full value of your people: by taking away your compliance concerns, we enable you to focus on the business aspects where you can have the biggest impact
• Local delivery with central coordination – providing you with local in-country experts in conjunction with our central global service coordination team, delivered through a single point of contact
• Improved reporting, business information and planning – delivering information, insights and intelligence to put you in the best possible position to succeed and reach your goals
• Flexibility – a tailored service delivered to suit your changing needs
• Consolidation and simplicity of engagement – delivering operational efficiencies through one provider, and under one International Services Agreement. 

Our areas

• Chief Value Officer - The Important Evolution of the CFO Report
• Outsourced accounting and Bookkeeping
• Legal and company secretarial
• Compliance and reporting
• Payroll, HR and global mobility
• Financial reporting

Domestic and international tax legislation is constantly evolving. Tax laws and regulations are complex, and tax authorities around the world are becoming more vigilant. The COVID-19 pandemic meant that a broad spectrum of the business world found itself in need of financial help. As governments, businesses and individuals look to the future with aims to recover and grow, it Is clear that Tax has played and will continue to play a vital role in both boardroom and governmental strategising and planning as we look ahead.

Our service areas

• Corporate international tax
• Global employer services
• Global private client services
• Global R&D tax credits and incentives
• Global tax assurance and risk management
• Global transfer pricing services
• Global Value Chain - Tax advisory services
• Indirect tax
• M&A tax services