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A promising business opportunity can excite a CEO, concern a board, divide shareholders or be dismissed before anyone has properly examined its commercial potential.
Read Issue 013 →For owners and finance leaders in Saudi Arabia, growth brings more than higher revenue. It brings more transactions, tighter cashflow demands, greater reporting expectations and increased exposure to financial and operational risk.
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Partnership brings IIUI’s Faculty of Computing & IT together with MAC’s accounting, tax, and audit practice to develop practical technology solutions, and to create research, training, and career opportunities for IIUI students.
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Partnership to connect CITADEL's startup and entrepreneurship network with MAC's accounting, tax, and advisory expertise
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An MoU with the National Incubation Center for Aerospace Technologies brings MAC's financial advisory, investor-readiness support and training to the startups incubated at NICAT.
Read on CxO News ↗23 Oct 2026
New issueAn idea may justify consideration, but a business decision must justify the commitment of capital. This issue sets out a five-step preliminary assessment for acquisitions and expansion, with a one-page screening framework.
Read Issue 013 →23 Oct 2026
New issueGrowth can expose weaknesses in reporting, cash-flow management, controls and financial oversight. This issue looks at in-house, outsourced and hybrid finance support for growing businesses.
Read Issue 012 →17 Sep 2026
DeadlineIndividuals and AOPs should file their Tax Year 2026 returns and wealth statements on IRIS before the deadline. Check for any FBR extension before relying on this date.
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IFRS Advisory
Issue 011 · 11 Oct 2026
Two companies may generate similar revenue and profits but present their financial performance differently. For investors, lenders and business owners, these differences can make financial statements more difficult to compare.
KSA Desk
Issue 010 · 6 Oct 2026
Saudi Arabia has emerged as one of the most important markets for businesses looking to expand in the Middle East. Setting up a company is only the beginning.
Tax & Regulatory
Issue 009 · 19 Sep 2026
Your bank statement and tax return are not supposed to show the same numbers. But they should tell a story that can be reconciled and explained.
Most chief executives receive a monthly pack they never really interrogate. The five statements that deserve a CEO's attention, the questions to ask of each, and the signs that a reporting pack was prepared to reassure rather than to inform.
Headcount is the default answer to a finance problem, and often the wrong one. Where outsourcing genuinely outperforms an internal team — and the conditions under which it does not.
Bank, property, vehicle and withholding data reaches the tax authority before your return does. What to reconcile against your own records before you file — and what a mismatch triggers.
Financial leadership is not reserved for companies that can afford a full-time CFO. How a fractional arrangement covers the judgment gap while the business is still too small to justify the salary.
A field guide to the filing errors that most reliably attract correspondence — from unreported foreign remittances to wealth statements that do not reconcile with declared income.
The line between planning and exposure is narrower than most owners assume. Which reliefs are structural and defensible, and which arrangements collapse the moment they are examined.
The Act changes the arithmetic on salary composition. A practical review of the allowances, benefits and reimbursement policies that were designed under the previous regime.
With no officer across the table, the quality of your documentation is the whole of your defence. What a faceless audit actually examines, and how to build a file that answers on its own.
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