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26-Sep-2019

JCC/JETRO/PWC Seminar – “Business trend in Europe and 2020 Dutch tax amendment”

 JCC/JETRO/PWC Seminar 2019

Business trend in Europe and 2020 Dutch tax amendment  

~ The Critical few and Digital transformation ~

Nowadays, more and more companies are trying to execute the digital transformation within their organization. On top of that, the establishment of the strong organizational culture which support their business strategy is the one of the important topic under the circumstances of the rapidly changing market and change of the members of organization.

In this seminar, PwC Chief Economist will have presentation on the latest economics and trend in Europe such as macro/micro European market after Brexit, ESGs and digital transformation etc. After that, PwC Strategy & will have a presentation on the reform of the organizational culture under the digital age and show some example of the digital mindset of the organization (we call “Digital Boot Camp”). Finally, we will explain the Dutch tax amendment in 2020 which is announced on the mid of September 2019 and other Dutch law update such as accounting including IFRS, VAT, Dutch labor law.

We look forward to seeing you all at the seminar.

  • Date: 26 September 2019
  • Time: 13.30 Registration opens / 14.00 – 17.15 Seminar / 17.15 – 18.15 Networking
  • Venue:    PricewaterhouseCoopers Amsterdam Office, Westgate 2 (www.pwc.nl)
  • Address: Thomas R. Malthusstraat 5, 1066 JR Amsterdam (see the map
Agenda Time Speaker Content
13:30: Registration with coffee and tea
14:00: Opening Speech by PwC /JCC

 

5 Mr Yoshitoku Takahashi, Vice President of JCC / President of JETRO Amsterdam

Mr. Albert Brouwer, PwC Netherlands Japan desk leader.

 

14:05: Latest economics and business trend in Europe (including Brexit) 30 Jan Willem Velthuijsen, PwC Chief Economist In this session, PwC Chief Economist will have presentation on the latest economics and trend in Europe such as macro/micro European market after Brexit, ESGs and digital transformation etc.

 

14:35: The Critical Few-Organizational culture is powerful — the best leaders know how to make use of it. 30 Ms Akiko Karaki, PwC UK Advisory Consulting strategy & partner. Every managements are always interested in their organizational culture. This is because organizational culture impacts to the company’s business strategy and performance even though this is very difficult topic.

We might feel the organizational culture as indefinite but in fact this is the accumulated results both personal mind and actions. PwC Strategy& has enabled to make a lot of companies success on their reform of the organizational culture by identifying their important actions (Critical few) and expanding those to whole of the organization.

In this session, PwC expert at strategy department will have a presentation on the reform of the organizational culture under the digital age in Japanese.

 

15:05: Coffee Break 15
15:20: Digital transformation ~Introduction of Digital Boot Camp~ 30 PwC NL

 

We are now in the digital age. A lot of new IT tech companies are born and technology is more and more evolving in all of business industries recently. Under this circumstances, it is probable that all of the Companies can create the strong customer value by understanding the core of the digital business and getting the digital dynamism combination with the past company’s experiences and knowledge.

PwC Netherlands established “Experience Center” at PwC Amsterdam office last year. At our Experience center, we are providing many session on the understating the core of the digital business, deign the digital platform and the reform of the organizational corporate culture (“Digital Boot Camp”) to the local managements.

In this session, our PwC digital experts will explain our experiences on digital mindset in the organization including the examples of “Digital boot Camp”.

15:50: Digital transformation for compliance-introduction of PwC’s Continuous Monitoring Platform 30 Mr Rudi Selhorst, Senior Director PwC NL Risk Assurance Manager

 

Stakeholders demand organizations to be in control and have a grip on core risks. Increasing compliance and documentation requirements however prevent organizations to utilize resources for their full potential. In addition, CFOs want to be more innovative and add value to the organization. Can you provide sufficient comfort on that ?

Our Continuous Monitoring Platform helps CFOs to control risks, improve business insights and steer information efficiently by using real-time transaction monitoring.

 

16:20: Coffee Break 15
16:35: Dutch tax amendment in 2020 and other Dutch law update

 

40 Mr. Takashi Sasaki and
Mr. Masaya Watanabe, PwC Netherlands Japan desk
We will explain the Dutch tax amendment in 2020 which is announced in September 2019 and other Dutch law update like accounting including IFRS, VAT, Dutch labor law.
17:15: Closing Speech by PwC Mr. Albert Brouwer, PwC Netherlands Japan desk leader.
17:15-18:15: Networking reception