Business Development Team

Our business development team Stavros, Stephen, George P. and Augoustinos have done several visits abroad recently in an attempt to attract investments in Cyprus and bring new work to the firm. More specifically visits have taken place in Ukraine, Moscow, Poland and China. The feedback is positive! More similar events are planned for the future.

Find Us on Facebook!

The ‘likes’ on our Facebook page have increased to 127! Special thanks to the Facebook team for their daily updates. The aim of this page is to inform staff and fans on:

Activities in which the firm has participated

Upcoming events

Job opportunities

Daily news and updates

Liaising with Cypriot societies in UK universities

If anyone is interested in joining the Facebook team, please contact Achilleas Achilleos. Please keep on spreading the word for our Facebook page!

Trainings & Conferences

October 2011 Welcome to our second edition of the firm’s newsletter! Hopefully everyone enjoyed their summer holidays, the sea, sun and sand! If anyone had any adventures they would like to share with us, feel free to do so! The aim of this newsletter is to update you will all recent activities and news of the firm as well as for any future events.

Recently we had our 8-day induction

course to the new staff of the firm. The

‘Induction Team’ hopes this was very

useful for the future progress of all staff.

On behalf of all the ‘Induction Team’ we

welcome the new staff to the firm and we

wish you a challenging and rewarding

career

Antonis attended a ‘Navigating IFRS

training course’ in Stockholm, a 2.5-day

advanced-level training course by GTI

IFRS team, focusing on practical

application issues of IFRS

Antonis, Froso, Maria Papiri and Michalis

Melifronides attended seminars on

‘Covered Bonds: A key Financing Tool for

Banks and Mortgage Lenders‟ and „Basel

III: Changes of the capital adequacy

framework‟.

In June, Elena Aristidou and Froso

Yiangoulli attended a 2day train-the-

trainer programme on leadership

foundation learning about various

leadership brands and teaching

techniques and this will be delivered to all

managers and partners in the coming

months

Antonis regularly attends, Centra

webcasts, online periodic IFRS technical

developments updates via GTInet and

IASB webcasts and online IFRS technical

updates on new IFRS developments

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Thanks to all those which showed interest in joining our GTeam! After a draw, the GTeam until the end of 2012 consists of: Demetris Chioureas, Andreas Gregoriou, Marina Aristodimou, Vartoug Manoukian, Achilleas Nerouppos and Marina Neophytou. The GTeam will soon announce their actions for the near future. Involvement by all staff will be needed for making a difference each day to us and our society!

Discount Scheme We are working on obtaining discount cards for the staff from a number of shops, restaurants etc. Currently we are contacting our clients and contacts for this. If you have any contacts which would be interested in offering a discount for the staff of our firm, please inform Achilleas Achilleos about this.

Your Feedback!

On our server in the EQCM you will find a ‘Recommendation form’. Feel free to suggest anything on any issue relating the office and hand it to a partner or at the reception if you wish this to be anonymous. Additionally, any recommendations regarding the newsletter are welcome and appreciated.

GTeam

Corporate Social Responsibility We have currently renovated our Limassol offices and have donated all ‘old’ furniture to some army

administration offices. More changes to the Limassol office will take place soon

Donated money to ‘2011 New Zealand Earthquake Appeal’ We have helped financially several charities

We appreciate everyone’s effort for a ‘greener’ office. Please continue recycling paper, plastic and batteries as

our contribution to the environment

We are planning a large event for existing and potential clients

sometime towards the end of the year. Hopefully Ed Nusbaum,

CEO of GTi will be able to join us also

The GTeam is considering a tree planting event and tailoring of

a park in Egkomi and even naming it Grant Thornton Park!

Children day – the GTeam will arrange a day which will be

dedicated to those less fortunate. Initial thoughts are to find and

donate toys and clothes for children in need

Animals day – the GTeam is arranging a family visit to the

Donkey sanctuary as well as a visit to a dog shelter to help the

animals in need

Upcoming Events

Brand Awareness

Our firm’s recent main marketing & advertising activities are as follows:

Interview of Stavros Ioannou in Inbusiness weekly economic Sunday newspaper and on Inbusiness newsletter Entered in an agreement with Hilton Park for sponsoring the room cards, a pyramid leaflet in the room and various other banners in the hotel for one year Adverts in AccountancyCyprus Billboard advert in Egkomi Our Tax Facts Application for iPhone/iPad Our Tax Facts are found on a banner on Eurokerdos website Messenger’s new Smart car and logos on scooter Two-page advert in Status magazine, a Russian targeted lifestyle magazine Banner of our Tax Facts Application for one week on CyToday electronic newsletter

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Secondments – Tasos in Chicago “It was very hard at first because everything was new and I didn‟t know anybody. Things got easier, I wouldn‟t say everyday but week after week, I began to meet new people, learn how the office worked and by week three I was sent to my first client. Working in America is different than anything I have I ever experienced and the culture, mentality and overall dynamic of the office is something completely different. Work takes up a lot more time for employees and a lot more is expected above and beyond the normal responsibilities. I am enjoying the experience of working in America and am preparing myself for the mighty colds of the winters of Chicago which I am being constantly warned of how brutal they can be. Last year they had at times two feet of snow. Even now the temperatures have dropped to 15 Celsius.”

Horizontal 1 RELATIONSHIPS – COLLABORATION – CONTRIBUTIONS 3 POTENTIAL – PROVIDENT – PROMOTION 5 ROLE – RULE – REAL 6 EXCEED – ENSURE – EVOKER 9 IMMEDIATE – INSINCERE – INTEGRITY 11 EXCUSE – USEFUL – UNIQUE 12 TRAINEE – HONESTY – TREATER 16 AND – ACT – ART 17 CHANGES – CULTURE – CHOICES 19 PEOPLE – PROMPT – PERSON 22 SIMPLY – SIMPLE – SIMPLER 25 EMPOWER – TRIVIAL – FREEDOM 27 WORLD – SHARE – RULES 30 CONSISTENT – CONVICTION – CONTRIBUTE 31 REACT – RIGHT – REPLY 33 BRAND – TREAT – UNITE 34 LITTLE – LISTEN – LEADER 36 RESPOND – DEVELOP - OPINION

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2 OPPORTUNITY – OBJECTIVITY – OPERATIONAL 4 LETTER – LIKELY – LITTLE 7 KNOWN – UNITE – EXAMS 8 ESTEEM – EXCEED – EQUALS 10 TREAT – TRUST – TRUTH 13 APPARENTLY – APPRENTICE – APPRECIATE 14 AWARE – AWARD – AVOID 15 VISION – VALUES – VACANT 18 USER – UNIT – HOPE 20 SPEAK – SHARE – SMILE 21 DISTINCTIVE – DIFFERENCES – DEVELOPMENT 23 PAINT – PETIT – PRIDE 24 WRONGLY – PROMOTE – BELIEVE 26 MUTUAL – LEADER – RESULT 28 TRUST – TRUTH – TEAMS 29 CARE – TRUE – HOPE 32 BETTER – GLOBAL – MUTUAL 35 BLAME – TEAMS – WORTH 37 MISSION – MISTAKE - SINCERE

CLEARR – Vision and Values Quiz The winner of the previous competition was Thomas who won an iPod!

This time the prize will be a €100 voucher from CSP (you can choose your own electronic gadget, from digital cameras, photo frames iPods etc!) From the options on the left, select the appropriate words and send all your answers to Maria Papiri by 7

th of October. Correct

answers will be entered into a draw!

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