Cynthia Cuculiansky , BDO Becher Partner in charge of HR & Organizational Advisory, was invited to make two presentations at HSM Expomanagement's Conference Cycles. These were held on October 27 and 28, and focused Performance Management in critical scenarios and Talent in Argentina: a view into 2009.

Cynthia referred to changes which should be introduced in performance management procedures in order to stay ahead or, at least, react in time in face of a changing environment. She advised not to apply measurement tools used in the past but, instead, to reorient focus to manage the present and future times.

Dynamics of her presentations were enhanced through football imagery to describe talent in Argentina . Indeed, concepts like “going into the field” and “playing the game” were metaphors through which she stated that the definition of talent is changing and senior – experienced – executives are in greater demand today, while strategies focusing young skilled professionals are changing as well, as they will now have enough time to develop.

When asked whether advances made in connection with benefits, work-life balance and career development could be somehow lost in the present scenario, Cynthia stated that, luckily, one cannot always go back. In fact, cutting those benefits could involve getting to the starting line again, back in 2001, and companies have learnt that the price to pay could be too high. Besides this, she stated that expectations about people will tend to rise, they will be told that in order to “enter the World Cup” they must do their best, that “the match is today”. There will a future time for young promises. Focus now will certainly turn to skilled and more experienced persons.

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Carlos Rozen, Partner of BDO Becher was “Key Speaker” at the XIII Latin American Congress of Internal Audit, Source of Development and Knowledge, making a presentation on the “Development of the New COSO Monitoring Framework ” at the Gran Salón Bavaro, the Dominican Republic venue.

As expected, this year's CLAI convened more than a thousand internal auditing professionals and Institutes belonging to the Latin American Federation of Internal Auditors. Participants attended sessions focusing IA Update, Audit of Financial Entities and IT Solutions and Audit and visited the exhibition, featuring a BDO stand.

For the 3rd consecutive year, BDO participated as Principal Sponsor. CLAI Authorities announced CLAI 2009, to be held in Lima , Perú, with BDO's Platinum Sponsorship.

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Our Firm sponsored the International Conference XBRL / IFRS Working Together , held on 2 October, at the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange ( Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires ). The meeting was jointly organized by Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires and Universidad Nacional de Rosario.

Some 150 attendants, listened to Troy Beatty (SEC), Kurt Ramin and Liv Watson (XBRL International Steering Committee), executives from CNV (local Securities Exchange Commission), Banco Central de la República Argentina and Daniel Díaz (Universidad Nacional de Rosario). Carlos Rozen, Partner of BDO Becher, was invited to participate as moderator .

http://www.conferencia-xbrl.com.ar/

Last September 10 El Cronista, held El Encuentro de los Líderes, a Top Management conference which was sponsored by BDO Becher, among other orgnaizations.

All along a 9:00 to 19:00 journey and before an average audience of 400 businessmen, bank officials, analysts and members of academic organizations, several panels of leaders from top Automotive, Consumer, Agribusiness, Education, Technology and Construction & Real Estate companies expressed their views on the present scenario for their companies and sector, as well as perspectives for 2009.

More information http://www.cronista.com/contenidos/lideres.html

On September 16 BDO Becher hosted a workshop on US GAAP-IFRS. Marcelo Canetti, Partner of BDO Becher, referred to global trends in connection with accounting standards.

BDO Becher and the School of Economics of Buenos Aires University organized the first Corporate Social Responsibility Workshop, starting point of the collaboration agreement subscribed by both organizations to provide CSR audit and consultancy services. Issues dealt with during the workshop included companies' position as “corporate citizens” having rights and obligations towards their internal and external communities, as well as mechanisms to develop CSR strategies. Participants underlined the importance of CSR as a means of achieving competitive distinctiveness, and the need to consider it a key issue for organization's strategic planning. The meeting closed with an open discussion in which participants identified the challenges to promote CSR inside their organizations.

Among other activities scheduled within this project, the agenda features a series of workshps and a CSR Seminar in October.

Stephen Bourne, Partner and Head of the Corporate Finance Division of BDO Stoy Hayward LLP visited Buenos Aires, invited by BDO Becher.

During his stay he held meetings with local company executives and - on July 17, at the Marriott Plaza - he made a presentation before a group of attorneys and members of the financial community on How to obtain capital through the AIM. Based on vast experience acquired delivering services to 130 AIM clients based in 20 countries, Mr Bourne described the advantages of AIM, the characteristics of companies found attractive by investors and to accounting aspects inherent to the listing process.

BDO holds an outstanding position in M&A. Data reported by Thomson Reuters in Mid-Market League Tables Q2 2008 shows that by number of transactions BDO was the UK's number 1 M&A adviser in 4 deal size categories: up to $50m, up to $100m, up to $200m and up to $500m, also figuring significantly in rankings by total deal value : 1st up to $50m, 6th up to $100m and up to $200m. In the European rankings, by total number of deals BDO ranks 4th up to $50m, 5th up to $100m, 6th up to $200m and a bit lower at 10th on deals up to $500m. Based on value, we rank 6th on deals up to $50m. In the Worldwide rankings , we rank at number 16th and 17th in deals up to $100m and $200m respectively.

According to data released in the June 2008 Top 1000 Issue of Revista Mercado, one of the main local business magazines, BDO Becher has climbed to the 4th place among leading auditing firms in Argentina. Figures show BDO Becher's remarkable increase in the number of top 500 audit clients (22, jointly reporting u$s 1.442 million sales turnover) and reflect 29% expansion. Besides this, BDO Becher maintains the 5th position in the ranking based on sales turnover of audited clients.

Marcelo Canetti , Partner of  BDO Becher, was appointed to serve as voting member of the International Accounting Education Standards Board , a standard setting body designated by and operating independently under the auspices of the International Federation of Accountants .

IFAC  is the global organization for the accountancy profession. With 155 members and associates in 118 countries, its mission is to  strengthen the profession through the development and enhancment of best practices and education.   IAESB develops and issues standards, guidelines and information papers to improve accountancy education throughout the world. Membership represents 2.5 million accountants worldwide. 

BDO International  and BDO Becher are proud to announce Marcelo`s appointment for such important position.

The survey 2007 conducted by Total Argentina for Revista Mercado on B2B/ Auditors' Brand Value exhibits BDO Becher in the 5th position, with a 7,18 score. KPMG leads the ranking, with 7,62.

The rise in our Firm's brand value as compared to the preceding period – more than 10% - confirms the success of our strategy and the marketing tools used to achieve such positioning, partly due to its most visible side, the advertising campaign stating that we are the most argentinian of international firms.

No doubt a key factor contributing to this status was management's decision to communicate in a straightforwardly manner that BDO Becher is a global Firm with local identity.

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