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Aviation Advisory
Our dedicated Aviation Advisory team bring best-in-class expertise across modelling, lease management, financial accounting and transaction execution as well as technical services completed by certified engineers.
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Consulting
Our Consulting team guarantees quick turnarounds, lower partner-to-staff ratio than most and superior results delivered on a range of services.
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Business Risk Services
Our Business Risk Services team deliver practical and pragmatic solutions that support clients in growing and protecting the inherent value of their businesses.
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Deal Advisory
Our experienced Deal Advisory team has provided a range of transaction, valuation, deal advisory and restructuring services to clients for the past two decades.
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Forensic Accounting
Our Forensic and Investigation Services team have targeted solutions to solve difficult challenges - making the difference between finding the truth or being left in the dark.
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Financial Accounting and Advisory
Our FAAS team designs and implements creative solutions for organisations expanding into new markets or undertaking functional financial transformations.
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Restructuring
Grant Thornton is Ireland’s leading provider of insolvency and corporate recovery solutions.
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Risk Advisory
Our Risk Advisory team delivers innovative solutions and strategic insights for the Financial Services sector, addressing disruptive forces, regulatory changes, and emerging trends to enhance risk management and foster competitive advantage.
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Sustainability Advisory
Our Sustainability Advisory team works with clients to accelerate their sustainability journey through innovative and pragmatic solutions.
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Asset management Asset management of the futureIn today’s global asset management landscape, there is an almost constant onslaught of change and complexity. To combat such complex change, asset managers need a consolidated approach. Read our publication and find out more about what you can achieve by choosing to work with us.
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Internal Audit Maintaining Compliance with New EU Pension Directive IORP IIOn 28 April 2021, the Irish Government transposed IORP II (Institution for Occupational Retirement Provision), an EU directive on the activities and supervision of pension schemes, into law.
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Risk, Compliance and Professional Standards FRED 82 – Periodic Updates to FRS 100 – 105The concept of a new suite of standards for the UK and Ireland, aligning with international financial reporting standards, was first conceived in 2002
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Audit and Assurance Auditor transition: how to achieve a smooth changeoverAppointing new auditors may seem like a daunting task that will be disruptive to your business and a drain on the finance function. Nevertheless, there are a multitude of reasons to consider a change, including simply seeking a ‘fresh look’ at the business.
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Corporate Tax
Our Corporate Tax team is made up of more than 40 highly experienced senior partners and directors who work directly with a wide range of domestic and international clients; covering Corporation Tax, Company Secretarial, Employer Solutions, Global Mobility and Tax Incentives.
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Financial Services Tax
The Grant Thornton team is made up of experts who are fully up to date in terms of changing and evolving tax legislation. This is combined with industry expertise and an in-depth knowledge of the evolving financial services regulatory landscape.
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Indirect Tax Advisory & Compliance
Grant Thornton’s team of indirect tax specialists helps a range of clients across a variety of sectors including pharmaceuticals, financial services, construction and property and food to navigate these complexities.
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International Tax
We develop close relationships with clients in order to gain a deep understanding of their businesses to ensure they make the right operational decisions. The wrong decision on how a company sells into a new market or establishes a new subsidiary can have major tax implications.
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Private Client
Grant Thornton’s Private Client Services team can advise you on all areas of financial, pension, investment, succession and inheritance planning. We understand that each individual’s circumstances are different to the next and we tailor our services to suit your specific needs.
Experience
Fergus joined Grant Thornton in 2012, as a Partner in our Financial Accounting and Advisory Services (FAAS) team. FAAS specialises in providing accounting advice across the corporate and financial services sectors. Prior to joining Grant Thornton, Fergus was with a Big Four firm where he was the leader of the FAAS practice. He also previously held an audit portfolio and was formerly head of the Financial Reporting Group of that Irish practice.
Sector experience
Fergus provides accounting advice to board and audit committee members and senior finance executives of large corporates and publicly listed companies. He has been involved in the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) conversions of over a dozen public companies across many sectors. He has extensive experience of providing accounting advice relating to business combinations, group restructurings and share based payment plans.
Fergus also has experience in the financial services sector and has advised the Central Bank of Ireland on matters related to the accounting for loan provisions and related disclosures in the financial statements.
In the telecommunications sector, he has advised on revenue recognition and accounting for telecommunications assets including sale and leaseback transactions. His previous audit experience included working with companies in the software, manufacturing and IT sectors.
Fergus is a past President of the ACCA Leinster Members Network and is currently a member of the ACCA’s Global Forum for Corporate Reporting. He is also a former Chairman of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Ireland.
He is a member of the Consultative Committee of Accounting Bodies in Ireland (CCAB-I). Fergus is a member of Grant Thornton’s International Interpretations Group (IIG), which determine the member firm views on IFRS.
Fergus led Grant Thornton Ireland’s Technology sector group until early 2019 and he has since taken the role of global head of for Grant Thornton International.
- Fellow of the Association of Chartered Accountants (ACCA)
- Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Business and Financial Studies