Alliott Group is an worldwide alliance of independent accounting, law and consulting firms. With more than 160 member firms in some 60 countries, the group meets the local and cross-border needs of its members and their clients.

Membership allows firms to both retain and attract business through the ability to connect with likeminded professionals in other jurisdictions. Members exchange, benchmark and share know-how and best practice information on both a technical and practice management level.

Alliott Group News

• EMEA Annual Meeting, Amsterdam
  The program and booking form for the 2010 EMEA Annual Meeting are now available to download in the members' section.
• Kleopas Alliott Business Consultants S.A. implement new marketing strategy
  As part of the build up to its 20th anniversary celebrations, Kleopas Alliott S.A.are rolling out a 15-month marketing program that will conclude with a public event in May 2011.
• Protection of well-known trademarks in Brazil
  The Brazilian Law grants to trademarks identified as well-known an extended protection, which, however, is rarely invoked. In fact, the Brazilian law ensures owners of trademarks deemed well-known extended protection covering all fields of activity, i.e., all trademark classes. In practical terms, this means that even when a trademark is registered in a single class, if such trademark is well-known recognized, no identical or similar trademark can be registered in Brazil in any other class.
• 'So you want to start blogging'.
  Geni Whitehouse, CPA.CITP, CSPM (Countess of Communication at Brotemarkle, Davis and Co) sheds light on the mythes of blogging
• North American accounting member shares success stories on new Web site
  Alliott Group's Napa Valley based accounting member Brotemarkle, Davis and Co. LLP. utilises a new Web site, www.thepassionateaccountant.com, to tell their story.
• Dixcart's Robert Homem and Sean Dowden provide guidance on Royalty Planning
  In the absence of careful planning, owners of intellectual property can find their profits seriously eroded by both taxes on profits and by withholding taxes.
• How the wine industry should plan to succeed in 2010
  Guy Carl, of Alliott Group's Napa Valley based accounting member Brotemarkle, Davis and Co. LLP., provides advice to the wine industry on how to make 2010 a vintage year for their businesses.
• Alliott Group Worldwide Chairman continues his charity work in Nicaragua
  John Jones and the Santa Rosa Sunrise Rotary go to Nicaragua for a dental and eye care project
• New Transfer Pricing Rules in Brazil
  Bruno Henrique Coutinho de Aguiar, a Tax Partner at Rayes, Fagundes & Oliveira Ramos Advogados Associados, provides an overview of the recent changes to Transfer Pricing Rules in Brazil.
• Walter & Shuffain P.C. employee Sharyl Chamberlain earns certifications as a Fraud Examiner and Financial Forensics Expert
  Sharyl (Shari) L. Chamberlain, a CPA financial forensics expert with Walter & Shuffain, P.C., has recently been awarded the Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) credential by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and the globally-preferred Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) credential from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).