About Us
Why GION
With India’s growing economic stature at the international level, Indian businesses reaching global stage and Indian origin people becoming global leaders of multi-nationals, it is time to create a network for Accounting Professionals of Indian origin.
GION is the first Indian origin global accounting network to collaborate with independent member firms from around the world. These member firms provide Audit, Assurance, Tax, Consulting and Corporate advisory to private and public enterprises including multinationals.
GION is in line with the vision of our Honorable Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi.
" Our medium term vision is to be present in more than 100 countries in 5 years and long term vision to be amongst the top 20 accounting networks. "
GION is initiated by MCA Gulf a multi-disciplinary professional services firm headquartered in Dubai, UAE and operating since 2009.
Advantages of joining GION
When accounting firms become part of any network, they wish to have a relationship of ‘give and take’ wherein network can help firm grow and firm can play a greater role in network’s growth for overall growth of the member firms and network. Our details on why to join our network gives some indication of benefits, but here we will be specific on what network endeavors to deliver to the member firms.
As the firms engage and work together as part of one global network, large number of benefits come up for each internal stakeholder and some of these are as follows:
Stronger marketing as one brand for faster growth:
The coming together of firms will help to judiciously use resources for better and stronger marketing, which will bring in huge benefits for member firms and support their growth.
Global leadership and strategic support for stronger growth:
The network with an international office and global representation of leaders from across the world will fuel strong strategic growth of member firms and support with wider base of knowledge.
Direct and indirect referrals with strongest integration:
The strong intranet system will have different levels for meaningful engagement within member firms and that will help to create consistent referrals for member firms from different parts of the world.
Access to emerging technologies and required technology support at low cost:
Being part of the network, will bring in access of the technology at lower cost for better efficiency. Furthermore, effective methodology to provide services through better use of technology will help improve client satisfaction and firm will be better prepared to serve large number of people in shorter time.
Technical knowledge with strong repository to create greater avenues of growth:
The strong technical repository which network intends to develop with stronger participation will help member firms in understanding changes happening in the world and that will create easy avenues for venturing into newer areas and supporting growth of the firms.
Meeting training needs of the resources for consistent growth:
The training resources comes with huge cost and with central strategic training support system, the member firms can meeting the training needs of their resources at very low cost.
Access to stronger forces for fueling faster growth:
The member firms resources influence and engagement in different countries will help get access to most important stakeholders such as government and its department, which will eventually create opportunities of growth for the member firms.
Formal system of consistent engagement through business events, meetings and get-togethers:
The network through its strong central leadership team will endeavor to create a strong system of engagement wherein member firms regularly meet and interact in both formal and informal settings for sharing of knowledge, creating opportunities and having strong camaraderie amongst themselves.
Network Structure
Advisory Board
Board of Directors
Leadership Team
Council
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board will be an additional structure to support the growth of the network, comprising of 7 to 9 members consisting of eminent personalities who have achieved success at the global stage. The Advisory board can also assist in marketing of the firm and getting required attention for fast growth of the firm.
Board of Directors
The composition of at least 5 members of Board of Directors has to be by election after two years of formation and remaining members can be nominated by the elected board members. Once the board is in place, one of the representative from a region, will be given responsibility to act as Regional Coordinator for member firms of the particular region. The board will have powers to frame the detailed functioning of the board and once approved by the board, can be ratified by the member firms.
Legal Structure
Global Network and its Legal Existence
We as ‘GION’ will be a network of firms, owned and managed independently, which have entered into agreements with the other member firms in the network to share a common name, brand, intellectual property, and quality standards. We will establish a global entity in UAE or India (Gift City) to co-ordinate the activities of the network.
The Network’s legal existence process and registration steps have been identified as:
Identification
We need to look at the options available for putting together the structure under common brand where members firms from different continents can be integrated as independent firm to work under common brand.
Agreement
Options identified need to be agreed upon and closed by the network
Formation
Process of registering the identity to be completed