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2023

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ISCA Pre-Budget 2023 Roundtable: Stepping Forward Amid Megatrends

The ISCA Pre-Budget Roundtable 2023 was held on 19 January 2023 at ISCA House. The Roundtable focused on progressive steps businesses and accountancy and finance professionals could take in 2023 to take the lead in business megatrends, such as sustainability, digitalisation, and diversification.


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2022

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ISCA Pre-Budget Roundtable 2022: Recovery and Refocusing on Growth

The ISCA Pre-Budget Roundtable 2022 took place at ISCA House on January 14. The Roundtable focused on ways Singapore Budget 2022 can enable a smoother economic recovery with business-friendly support measures and assistance, so as to help businesses focus on new growth opportunities.


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ISCA Pre-Budget 2022 Survey

COVID-19 has changed the face of work. In response, the accountancy profession has been agile in its adaptation to this new normal. ISCA surveyed auditors, accountancy and finance professionals to better understand these changes.


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2021

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ISCA Pre-Budget Roundtable 2021: Emerging Stronger Together

The ISCA Pre-Budget Roundtable 2021 took place virtually for the first time on January 14. Against the backdrop of Covid-19, the Roundtable, themed “Emerging Stronger Together”, took on added significance as a platform to gather feedback on pertinent topics impacting businesses today, and how Budget 2021 can be formulated to address some of these issues.


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2020

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The Fortitude Budget: Helping Businesses and Individuals Adapt and Build Resilience

A new S$33-billion Fortitude Budget was unveiled in Parliament by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat on 26 May 2020. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Fortitude Budget builds on the earlier Unity, Resilience and Solidarity Budgets. It aims to help businesses and individuals adapt and build resilience. This is the fourth Budget in fewer than four months, which is truly unprecedented.


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A Third Stimulus: The Solidarity Budget – An Extra Boost to Unity and Resilience Budgets

Just a day before the month-long nation-wide “circuit-breaker” measures kicked in, a third round of support measures was unveiled on 6 April 2020 by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat in Parliament. The Solidarity Budget – so named to rally much-needed unity, mutual support and confidence in the face of the Covid-19 outbreak, dubbed the worst global crisis since World War II – arms Singapore with an additional $5.1 billion in its fight.


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Supplementary Budget 2020: The Resilience Budget – Delivering Extraordinary Support in an Unparalleled Time of Crisis

Amid the escalating Covid-19 crisis and a gloomy economic forecast described as “the worst economic contraction since Singapore’s independence”, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat announced a landmark $48 billion Supplementary Budget package on March 26, to deliver “decisive” and timely support to workers, businesses and households.


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Budget 2020: Addressing Challenges, Advancing into a New Decade

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat delivered the 2020 Singapore Budget Statement on February 18 in Parliament. Opening his speech, Mr Heng stressed that growing uncertainties in the global economic climate and the Covid-19 virus outbreak demanded quick responses to address them. Budget 2020 set out a spending injection of $106 billion and registered the highest deficit in a decade $10.9 billon.


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ISCA Pre-Budget Roundtable 2020: Deepening Capabilities - A Continuous Process

The ISCA Pre-Budget Roundtable 2020, which took place on 8 January at InterContinental Singapore, focused on Singapore’s commitment to industry transformation in spite of strong global economic headwinds, with the theme “Deepening Capabilities: A Continuous Process”.


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2019

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Budget 2019: Planning for the future amid global uncertainties

The 2019 Singapore Budget speech was delivered by Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat in Parliament on February 18. In his speech, he noted that Singapore’s economy grew 3.2% in 2018 in tandem with global expansion. This year, however, global growth is expected to taper, given the greater uncertainties and downside risks.


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ISCA Pre-Budget Roundtable 2019: Progressing with A Vibrant and Innovative Economy

Transforming the economy and equipping Singapore with the relevant skills, global economic headwinds notwithstanding, continue to be among the foremost priorities of businesses and the government. That was the theme of the discussion at ISCA’s Pre-Budget Roundtable 2019, which took place on January 9 at InterContinental Singapore.


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2018

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Budget 2018: Supporting enterprises, capturing new opportunities

Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat delivered the Singapore Budget on February 19. The thrust of Budget 2018 was based on the three major shifts that will affect the Singapore economy over the coming decade. These were identified by Mr Heng as the shift in global economic weight towards Asia, the emergence of new technologies, and the issue of ageing.


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