Deloitte ready for AEC

 Deloitte Thailand today is hosting a regional meeting of its Southeast Asia partners in Bangkok, to identify strategies in providing the clients with advice as well as to consider business performance adjustment to serve the upcoming business requirements and targets in ASEAN member countries. The organisation is prepared to provide services on various areas including audit, tax & legal, risk management, management consulting and financial advisory. 

"Now that all ASEAN countries are closely cooperating in preparation for the ASEAN Economic Community, or AEC, Thailand's private sectors and leading entrepreneurs will gain a lot of benefits, including possibly expanding into new markets in Southeast Asia. As a part of Deloitte SEA, Deloitte Thailand is currently working hard to get prepared for moving forward along with their clients. Deloitte's main focus is to pool all knowledge and expertise available in the region so as to serve our client's upcoming business expansion and any emerging challenges in the very near future," said Subhasakdi Krishnamra, the managing partner of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Jaiyos or Deloitte  Thailand.

The Asean community will open for freer movement of people, products and capital flows.

To Subhasakdi, this is both an opportunity and a challenge. First of all, the free market will bring more competitors into the Thai  market. This should be witnessed in several business sectors including information technology, finance, energy, production and logistics as well as healthcare. But he said Deloitte is ready to help  clients deal with both domestic and international conditions.

Chaly Mah, the chief executive officer of Deloitte SEA and Deloitte Asia Pacific, said that against the pessimistic outlook in the world economy, the new community will promote new products, services and investment within the region.

"We do believe that Deloitte will be able to give advice to clients and help them get prepared for the AEC 2015 in terms of accounting, tax advisory, risk management, business strategy and financial advisory. We are also keen on identifying potential opportunities for our clients, while helping them mitigate any possible risks. In short, we know how to enable the clients to turn challenges into opportunities," he said.

Deloitte operates 22 offices in Southeast Asia across eight countries - Brunei, Guam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand, with 230 partners and and over 5,300 employees.

It has operated in Thailand for 72 years, highly praised as an outstanding audit company for leading companies and banks in Thailand.