Managing Multinationals in the Middle East

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Managing Multinationals in the Middle East Accounting and Tax Issues

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Wagdy M. Abdallah

ISBN: 1-56720-267-5

ISBN-13: 978-1-56720-267-0

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288 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 11/30/2000

List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £82.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: This comprehensive analysis discusses how American and non-American multinational corporations (MNCs) can plan, manage, and control their business activities and invest in four selected Middle East countries: Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabaia—and as a special unique feature, a fifth country, Israel. Abdallah covers in detail the tax systems and regulations and their effect on business in the Middle East. He looks at the future of the business environment and its effect on accounting in the Middle East during the first decades of the new century, and examines the role of different local and international organizations that are helping to make the Middle East an excellent place to do business.

Combining the Arab countries with Israel into a single volume, and writing in a remarkably clear style, Abadallah offers practical guidelines for Americans and other MNCs, potential international investors, large accounting firms, and even Middle East governments themselves. He helps businesses conduct feasibility studies for joint venture startups in the Middle East countries covered; helps MNCs manage their business more effectively and avoid conflicts with governments or cultural attitudes; offers managers and officers an understanding of Middle East environmental factors that may significantly affect their businesses; helps MNCs evaluate the performance of Middle East subsidiary managers; helps MNCs develop strategic transfer pricing policies that fit Middle East countries and which go according to accounting systems and practices there as well as in their home countries; and goes deeply into the accounting systems and practices of the countries under analysis here and compares them with both U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and International Accounting Standards. This volume is of special value to corporate executives in or planning to enter the Middle East market, graduate students, and teachers of international business and accounting, and practicing accountants with Middle East clients (or who seek to acquire them).

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Managing Multinational Companies in the Middle East
The Economic, Political, and Legal Characteristics of the Middle East Countries and the Accounting Systems
The Effect of Culture and Religion on Accounting in the Middle East and the Harmonization of International Accounting Standards
Investing in the Middle East
Financial Reporting and Performance Evaluation in the Middle East
Accounting Systems and Practices of Selected Middle East Countries: Comparative Analysis with U.S. GAAP and IAS
International Accounting Standards and Their Impacts on Accounting Practices and Principles of Selected Middle East Countries
Performance Measurements and Evaluation of Foreign Subsidiary Managers in the Middle East
Tax Systems in the Middle East and Transfer Pricing Strategies
Tax Systems of Selected Middle East Countries
Transfer Pricing Policies for Multinationals Operating in the Middle East
Objectives and Strategies of Transfer Pricing Policies in the Middle East
Transfer Pricing Techniques in the Middle East and Section 482 of the IRC
Looking Ahead
The Future Business Environment and Its Effect on the Future of Accounting Development in Middle East Countries

About the Author: WAGDY M. ABDALLAH is Associate Professor of Accounting at Seton Hall University, New Jersey, where he specializes in international accounting and gives seminars on various aspects of doing business in the Middle East. Among his specialties is international transfer pricing for Multinational Corporations. Dr. Abdallah is author of Quorum's International Transfer Pricing Policies (1989), and publishes widely in the journals of his field. He has served on numerous committees and boards and has had special teaching assignments in China, the Middle East, and Singapore.

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