COVID-19: Mazars insights
COVID-19: Mazars insights
Since the beginning of the crisis, we have been closely monitoring the situation and taking action to mitigate the effects of the pandemic. We remain by our clients’ sides, helping them navigate these unprecedented times.
Dealing with the consequences of COVID-19: Insights from our international experts
Below we share our expertise and experience, with advice on protecting teams, ensuring business continuity, supporting organisations during difficult times, and more.
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Mazars Economic Update - April 2020
George Lagarias, our Chief Economist & David Baker, our Chief Investment Officer share their views on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Markets & Economy.
How Covid-19 affects the media sector
As people spend more time at home, content providers are caught between increased customer demand, fierce competition and falling advertising revenues. While some stand to gain from new working arrangements, others are losing this new commercial battle. Free content that hooks users in these changing times could be the key to long-term success.
Internal audit during & beyond the Covid-19 crisis
17/04/2020 This paper has been created to better enable Heads of Internal Audit to assess the key risks, redefine priorities and prepare for the future.
What will T&L look like post Covid-19?
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on transport and logistics has been heterogenous, largely due to the diversity of and vast number of players in the sector. The cards have not been dealt evenly. Flightradar24 reports a 55% drop in commercial flights compared to March 2019 [1], whilst sales of food in supermarkets exceeded the Christmas shops many times over in the UK [2], with incidence on the...
EU measures for import VAT and customs duties
16/04/2020 Temporary suspension of import VAT and customs duties for goods to help combat the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Crisis management planning to navigate Covid-19
16/04/2020 As the Covid-19 crisis continues, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the challenges for privately owned business are going to last longer, and cut deeper, than anyone anticipated. The initial hope was that businesses were facing a short-term challenge, and that after a short, sharp shock lasting a month or two, things would start settling back to normal. But that is now looking highly...
Covid-19 publications on Banks’ ECL under IFRS 9
15/04/2020 In the context of Covid-19, our expert Vincent Guillard presents recent EBA, IASB, ESMA and BCE publications and the consequences of these new accounting and prudential measures on banks’ ECL under IFRS 9.
Data protection of employee health information
14/04/2020 As the world deals with an exponential increase in Covid-19 cases, many regulatory bodies have issued public policy guidance concerning data collection, sharing and use of personal information related to employee health. Overall, they emphasise that data protection legislation (GDPR) is by no means an obstacle to public health. However, they advise organisations against carrying out "systematic...
Tech firms and the new working world
How we live and work has seemingly changed overnight. With much of the world in lockdown, people and businesses are turning to technology to keep them going, whether it’s the surge in video chats, trials of app-based medical advice or growing interest in online food delivery kits.
How to manage teams during confinement
14/04/2020 After a few days of confinement, the initial tools for remote work have been more or less installed. Any technical problems have been solved, or are at least in the process of being solved, and a certain etiquette has gradually become respected; including, video call only if necessary, turn the microphone off when you are not speaking, share documents, use instant messaging. Although these...
Covid-19 Global tax and law tracker
Global Tax Update
