Strategic Accounting for SMEs

Strategic Accounting for SMEs

Accounting and financial planning are often neglected aspects in SMEs. Reasons for this are sometimes a lack of time, a lack of skilled people,...
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4 Family Businesses with Diversified Global Activities

Kuwait - Mohammed Al Kharafi Group Mohammed Abdulmohsin Al-Kharafi & sons Company (MAK Group) is a Kuwait based group with diverse activities worldwide. The group...
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Focus Beats Diversity: Why Family Businesses Must Identify Their Core Capabilities

Widely diversified family businesses are common in the GCC, often including units in more than ten unrelated industries under one holding structure. Although this...
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Challenges for GCC Small and Medium Family Companies

It is common wisdom that small and medium enterprises are an important driver of growth, development and diversification for countries in all stages of...
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A Diversified Family Business – The Consolidated Contractors Company

Image Source: Pixabay via Pexels The Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) was founded in 1952. CCC is a heavily globally diversified company and it employs over...
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Majlis – The Heart of Middle East Family Businesses

 Adorned with an abundance of cushions and carpets, smelling of coffee and oud, the majlis constitutes an integral part of the lives of Middle...
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IPO Communication – Getting the Story Right

No other financing method requires as radical a change from a company as an Initial Public Offering (IPO). By going public, a company voluntarily...
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The Kanoo Brand Development

Image Source: Kaboompics .com from Pexels Insights from Khalid Mohamed Kanoo, Group Managing Director of Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo Group The Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo Group was...
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Advice and the Family Business

That family businesses are numerous and significant is a known fact. In order to cater to the wide variety of these business, most major...
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Entrepreneurship and Family Business – Exclusion or Inclusion?

Emerging from 19th century France, the word 'Entrepreneur' has become a buzz term throughout a post crisis world. With a view towards new ways...