Article on Praxity featuring Jos van Huut.
Cutting to the chase, the chairman of Praxity makes it abundantly clear he believes that the international network model for some accountancy firms has a limited shelf life. ‘Network organisations long-term in their present ambiguous format are not sustainable,’ Jos van Huut asserts. ‘We are convinced that the market wants a new model. Clients are calling for a transparent model. Regulators will not accept something where you say you are this, but you are something else.’
Fighting talk, from a man who became chairman of Praxity at the beginning of this year. As senior partner of Mazars in the Netherlands, Van Huut took
over as chairman of the alliance at a time when other international accountancy firm organisations appeared to be moving towards a much closer, more integrated proposition. But this, he argues, creates a degree of unsatisfactory opaqueness.
‘The clarity will be where you have two types of organisations. One is a very integrated firm, acting globally. And the other type is an alliance where you
say what you are, what you do,’ he says. ‘At this point in time, Praxity, which is clearly an alliance, is in the top 10. The model is easy to explain to people, businessmen know how to work in alliances, many of them do it themselves, and it is an answer to some of the heavy regulatory burdens.'
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