Hello everyone. Welcome to the PDWC TaxBite podcast series. My name is Peter and I'm very

happy today to welcome Jorgon and Kim in my recording studio. Today I want to talk about an interesting

topic. It's a hot topic and it's about future proof statutory reporting.

This is going to be a sub-series of the PEOC Taxbyte series. So in this series there will be a couple

of episodes where we will focus on this particular topic. As we see this as a very hot and important

topic in the interactions that we

have with our clients. First of all, let me introduce you, Jorgen and Kim. So Jorgen Brothars is leading

our global compliance network in PWC. And Kim de Smet is a global stat expert, part of the center

of excellence focusing on the optimization of gap to stat

conversions and how to maintain locally compliant ledgers across the globe.

That's a mouthful, Kim, but I'm sure you will explain to the audience what, whatever you

do day to day.

Yeah, as I said, this session is going to be part of a series where we'll explore

this topic, this particular topic of future proofing the statutory reporting function.

And of course, we will make, given that the audience of this podcast is very much into taxation,

we will make the links where possible to tax. The first session, we will start with setting a little bit the scene and discuss a bit

what that future proof model could look like.

Jorgen, let me start with you in a nutshell.

What will be the main message of today?

Hey, thanks Peter.

As you can imagine my global role, it gives me the great opportunity

to talk to many clients based all over the world. And I always ask my contacts for their key

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