Russell Bedford International - Russell Bedford joins World Bank Doing Business activity as a Global Contributor

Russell Bedford International, the all-around accounting and tax consulting group, has active up to be a pro-bono Global Contributor to the World Bank's Doing Business project.

The Doing Business activity - DoingBusiness.org - researches and benchmarks business laws and regulations in over 182 countries. The abstracts and appraisal are acclimated to advice the World Bank to admonish policy-makers in developing countries and by governments common in anecdotic authoritative reforms to advance the adeptness of entrepreneurs to do business.

The activity investigates ten authoritative aspects of the archetypal business activity aeon of calm firms, from start-up to exit. Russell Bedford affiliate firms are accidental abstracts to the Paying Taxes survey, which measures the amount of payments and time all-important for a business to accede with the applicative tax regulations. In addition, it measures the absolute tax accountability faced by entrepreneurs by analytic at all the taxes and binding payments they accept to make. The abstracts provided in the Paying Taxes surveys is based on the appulse of tax regimes on a connected apocryphal case abstraction aggregation in the countries in which our affiliate firms are located.

The after-effects of the analysis are presented in an anniversary Doing Business report, which is a flagship advertisement of the World Bank Group.

Since the project's birth in 2003, Doing Business has aggressive over 174 reforms, authoritative it easier to do business in countries as assorted as Mozambique and Mexico.

On announcement Russell Bedford's abutment for the Doing Business project, administrator Geoff Goodyear commented: "Russell Bedford has a continued history of accouterment casework to all-embracing banking institutions, and we are captivated to accept an befalling to coact with the World Bank and to use our ability in a way that will account the developing world."

For added information, acquaintance Kempton Bedell-Harper at Russell Bedford International on +44 20 7410 0339. Alternatively, appointment the websites at www.doingbusiness.org and www.russellbedford.com .

Note to Editors

Established in 1983, Russell Bedford International is a all-around arrangement of absolute accountancy firms, business consultants and specialist acknowledged advisers.

Ranked as one of the world's top 15 accounting networks, Russell Bedford is represented by some 460 partners, 5000 agents and 200 offices in added than 70 countries in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

All Russell Bedford affiliates are absolute firms alms all-embracing business admonition and casework to bounded and bunch clients. Most accommodate a abounding ambit of casework absolute accounting, auditing, tax advice, accepted business advice and banking consulting.
In addition, abounding accept appropriate ability in accurate fields, such as all-embracing taxation or advice technology.

In January 2008 Russell Bedford International was been called one of the aboriginal 17 abounding associates of the IFAC Forum of Firms afterwards advertisement it has implemented a globally accommodating above affirmation programme, committed to the use of International Standards on Auditing (ISAs), and met added specific belief requirements.

Issued by:

Kempton Bedell-Harper
Marketing Director
Russell Bedford International
Russell Bedford House
250 City Road, London EC1V 2QQ
United Kingdom
T: +44 (0) 20 7410 0339
F: +44 (0) 20 7459 2337
E: info@russellbedford.com
W: www.russellbedford.com