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Santa Fe Associates International http://santafe-associates.com/

SFAI https://www.sfai.eu

Santa Fe Associates is a professional services network helping clients in areas of accounting, audit, tax and management consulting to develop better business strategies that build on their unique inherent and potential strengths—the philosophy of the company, how it is organized to understand market opportunities and customer needs, and the methods it uses to deliver products and services. To help companies to continually adapt and continually improve Santa Fe Associates uses a commonsense methodology developed from of its broad international experience with businesses

History

Santa Fe Associates International brings decades of broad auditing and consulting experience to its clients for strategy, accounting, and tax needs. That is because Santa Fe Associates understand that business will be confronted by as much change over the next two years as it faced in the past thirty. And that is due to a scrambling of markets and customers as boundaries between industries suddenly crumble. Santa Fe Associates, was founded in 1997 as a spin off the SANTA FE INSTITUTE that in 1980 was at that time a spin off Los Alamos Laboratory, founded in 1943. Therefore the roots of this international network of accountants and consultants help their clients to develop strategies and procedures for business growth by building on existing resources that are usually ignored and wasted throughout a company.

Services

Santa Fe Associates works with small and medium-sized businesses, multi-national corporations, and non-government organizations (NGOs) understanding technology, but not focusing on technological solutions. The focus is on how organizations can create value and provide mutual benefits to customers and themselves. Much of that approach is derived from understanding of how organizations, natural and man-made, adapt to changing circumstances. Santa Fe Associates show their clients how to build that kind of adaptation—of ideas and processes—right into their own organization to become self-sustaining providing business services in:

Auditing and assurance services Management and strategy Legal management Tax strategy assessment Human resources Relationship with the market space, with competitors, with governments and with clients Information technology Actuarial planning SFAI Business Action® proprietary methodology allows their professional team to give clients solutions that will work now and in the future providing expertise in accounting, economics, business finance, political science, and law. SANTA FE ASSOCIATES is full member of the Forum of Firms, an association of international networks of accounting firms that perform transnational audits. Members of the Forum have committed to adhere to and promote the consistent application of high-quality audit practices worldwide, as detailed in the FOF Constitution.

Structure

Santa Fe Associates structure is conducted by a Board of Directors who is in charge to design the strategy of the organization as a whole and that of the member firms. The day to day operations are conducted by an Executive Board, integrated by partners of the major firms under the chairmanship of Dr. Alfredo Spilzinger Academic Board

The Academic Board serves as the Chief Academic Policy Advisory body in scientific, professional and academic matters that are necessary or convenient to be addressed by the organization taken as a whole to maintain the highest professional level of the organization. Therefore this board is integrated by the most well known worldwide professionals in several disciplines being the members

Prof. Dr. Alberto Abad Prof. Dr. Damian Beccar Varela Ambassador Leif Donde Prof. Dr. Marcelo Elizondo Prof. Jorge Giacobbe Prof. J. Alberto Marco Prof. Dr. Jim Peterson Prof. Dr. Alejandro Ponieman Prof. Dr. Horacio Roitman Prof. Manuel Sbdar [MBA] Dr. Prof. Alfredo Spilzinger Prof. Dr. Adolf Zizek Prof. Claudio Zuchovicki {MBA] MEDITERRANEAN SUB-COMMITTEE

Prof. Dr. Andrea Pitasi - Chair Dr. Mariarosalba Angrisani Prof. Lucio D'Alessandro Prof. Claudia Alvares Prof. Nikitas Assimakopoulos Prof. Violeta Bulc Prof. Ing. Dr. Gerhard Chroust, M.S. Prof. Derrick de Kerckhove Prof. Mario Ricciardi Prof. Robert Vallé

Member firms

SANTA FE ASSOCIATES members in every country where operates, is integrated by firms with the highest level of skills understanding what are the best academic and professional rules to be applied. That is to be “glocal”® that means conscious of the global scenario but locally adapted to each country philosophy. But above all, certified and non certified member firms maintain the highest standards of technical excellence as they are issued by IFAC, focusing on providing outstanding service to clients.

A CERTIFIED MEMBER FIRM agrees to meet a number of high standards set by the Board of Directors of SANTA FE ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL. These standards are based on IFAC regulations (ISQC1) and relate to the quality and range of their services, as well as to other issues such as their size, location and branding. Member firms agree to apply global policies on quality assurance, auditing, ethics & independence and inspections, in compliance with applicable international standards. Member firms complete an annual internal inspection program, which is subject to a globally coordinated internal quality assurance review at least every two years.

NON CERTIFIED FIRMS agree to provide services and advice to clients in locations where, at present, there is no CERTIFIED MEMBER Firm A non certified member firm cannot get the CERTIFIED STATUS due to their size,location or necessary human resources but they are expected to meet all legal or regulatory standards for the services they provide in their country, to conduct its audit and accountancy practice in accordance with the International Standards on Auditing and the International Standards on Quality Control, and to comply with the IFAC Code

Special partnership

This organization has also a strategic partnership with the WORLD COMPLEX SCIENCES ACADEMY, based in Bologna, Italy with whom are implementing the most advances academic tools on the economic and financial scenario. SANTA FE ASSOCIATES annual meetings are organized in conjunction with those of the WCSA having taken place in the same city by mid October each year. The said combined events allow to discuss together professional and academic points of view and to elaborate prospective assumptions to get the best answers fro SFAI clients.

Academic developments

SANTA FE BUSINESS SCHOOL, a faculty based in Limassol, Cyprus operates as a technical support of the partners firms in SANTA FE ASSOCIATES as to get the highest level of proficiency to each firm within the network. Every partner around the world must get 35 credits per year as to continue being member of SANTA FE ASSOCIATES, and those credits are gained through technical seminars given by the Business School.

Academic investigation and lectures at the Santa Fe Business School represent many disciplines and has a wide range of professionals, from law senior executives -very well known economists, experts accountants, reckoned sociologists- to fellows and graduate and undergraduate staff, working under the direction of a President, an Academic Board, and a Science Board whose members are drawn from leaders in business, academia, and the public sector.

To assist on that academic development SANTA E ASSOCIATES has signed strategic alliances with two important european universities : Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa – Napoli – ITALIA and Università degli Studi Gabriele d'Annunzio" Chieti – Pescara – ITALY.

The Manhattan Project was integrated by the most intelligent people in the world at the time. The scientists that contributed to the project included Einstein, Curie, Niels Bohr, Fermi, von Neumann, and hundreds of scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. It began when Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt regarding Germany's research on the atomic bomb, and their attempt to create one. Einstein suggested that the United States could start working to create an atomic bomb soon. Los Alamos laboratory was secretly founded in New Mexico in 1943 during World War II, centralized facility to coordinate the scientific research of the Manhattan Project.

The Santa Fe Institute SFIs https://www.santafe.edu was founded in 1984 by scientists George Cowan, David Pines, Stirling Colgate, Murray Gell-Mann, Nick Metropolis, Herb Anderson, Peter A. Carruthers, and Richard Slansky, most of them coming from Los Alamos laboratory. SFI's original mission was to disseminate the notion of a new interdisciplinary research area called complexity theory or simply complex system.

In September 1995, colleagues at SFI Howard Sherman, L. M. [Mike] Simmons, Bruce Abell and Kevin Egan, created Santa Fe Center for Emergent Strategies - now SANTA FE ASSOCIATES - in order to share ideas and experiences as a way to continue improving. In 2015 we join the FORUM OF FIRM in IFAC International Federation of Accountants https://www.ifac.org Forum of Firms Membership Membership in the Forum is open to networks and firms of all sizes that: Conduct, or have an interest in conducting, transnational audits; Promote the consistent application of high-quality audit practices and standards worldwide; Support convergence of national audit standards with the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) issued by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB); and Demonstrate commitment to the the FoF’s membership obligations as detailed below.

Membership Obligations Members of the Forum commit to the following: Maintain quality control standards in accordance with the International Standard on Quality Control (ISQC 1) issued by the IAASB in addition to relevant national quality control standards; Conduct, to the extent not prohibited by national regulation, regular globally coordinated internal quality assurance reviews. Have policies and methodologies for the conduct of transnational audits that are based, to the extent practicable, on the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) issued by the IAASB; Have policies and methodologies that conform to the IESBA Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants and national codes of ethics; and Agree to submit to the Secretary of the Forum an annual report, in an approved format, indicating that it meets the membership obligations set forth above. International networks of firms practicing under the same name or whose member firms are otherwise closely identified with one another, such as through common elements in their name, will be expected to join as one organization.

Members Members are those networks or firms that have satisfactorily submitted an annual report to the Transnational Auditors Committee (TAC) indicating that they have met the Forum's membership obligations during the reporting period. Members shall be entitled to describe themselves as such in accordance with wording to be determined by the Forum.

Current Members: In 2016 the company name was simplified with an acronyms SFAI.
 * AUREN
 * Baker Tilly International Limited
 * BDO
 * Constantin – Serval & Associés
 * Crowe Global
 * Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
 * ECOVIS
 * Ernst & Young Global Limited
 * FinExpertiza
 * Grant Thornton International Ltd
 * HLB International
 * IECnet
 * JPA International
 * KPMG International Cooperative
 * Kreston International
 * Kudos International Network
 * Mazars
 * MGI Worldwide
 * Moore Stephens International Limited
 * Nexia International
 * Parker Randall International
 * PKF International Limited
 * PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited
 * RSM International Limited
 * RT ASEAN
 * Russell Bedford International
 * SFAI
 * SMS Latinoamérica
 * Talal Abu Ghazaleh & Co. International
 * TASK International
 * UHY International Limited

The Chairman Bruce Abell also co-chairs SFAFS's science fair program. He was a co-founder of Santa Fe Center for Emergent Strategies (now Santa Fe Associates International), Vice President of Santa Fe Institute, Senior fellow at Hudson Institute, Business strategy Consultant, Assistant Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Official of the National Science Foundation, and science magazine writer and editor. He's a graduate of the California Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania and has lived in Santa Fe for 25 years.

Actual CEO Alfredo is Doctor in Economic Sciences, Doctor of Administration, Master in Economics, National Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, with post degrees in Philosophy, in Mathematics, in Physics, in Psychology and in Sociology. He was awarded as Lord of Brownsel (UK) for his investigations on the importance of  Templar Knights activity as precursors of the evolution of the financial and banking industry. Alfredo was also awarded by the Major of the City of Miami with the keys of the City of Miami for his efforts invested  in increasing  the commercial  interchange between the USA and the Mercosur Member of the former Argentine President Dr. Arturo U. Illia’s economic cabinet and of the Argentine President Raul Alfonsin’ s cabinet. He is presently Chairman of the Executive Board at SANTA FE ASSOCIATES International (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) a worldwide auditing and consulting network and also ScIentific Director at the WORLD COMPLEX SCIENCE ACADEMY (Bologna, Italy)