Independent Rating & Ranking Services offered by GAR generally applies to SME’s (Small & Medium Size Enterprises) as an integral part of strengthening their decision taking process…
Our client can be often the financial institutes, the buying groups, EPC Contractors, Owners, Manufacturers with large number of suppliers, subcontractors or clients. GAR acts as an independent assessment body to ensure the impartiality of findings with highly skilled experts in each sector. The services are required parallel to the increasing global risk not only financial and economics terms but also including other aspects with potential impact on the sustainability. Possible interested parties for GAR Independent Rating & Ranking Services are but not limited to:
- Banks: to better evaluate the credit risk;
- Capital Markets: to better evaluate the investment risk to support innovation;
- Suppliers/Customers: to better evaluate the company to start new commercial relations with;
- Shareholders & Managers: to evaluate and reduce their exposure to risk and their administrative liability;
- Stakeholders & Investors: to better preserve shared interests;
- Government: to better attract public (limited) financial resources intended to finance Small/Medium Business Enterprises.
Within the scope of rating and ranking services; GAR determines the assessment check list for the organizations to be assessed those would like to demonstrate the capacity to operate in middle-long term business; to increase its bank credit worthiness; to demonstrate that it is adopting appropriate tools for company and operational risk management, in addition to economic and financial risk management, linked to its field. Typically the organizations are audited for rating and ranking are subject to be compliant with laws on safety, environment, workers’ health and rights and duties, national and local regulations relevant to the organisation, working activities management and ways of preparing balance sheets. The Organisation must demonstrate good knowledge of these documents, distribute them to the personnel concerned, update them and ensure their implementation.
GAR Assessments are usually categorized into three areas :
- Internal efficiency and efficacy of the organisation: operative elements and activities, adapted to the Organisation’s size and production typology, QHSE-SA Compliance;
- Competitive aspects, economic and strategic elements: definition of competitive medium-long term characteristics, based on a business plan, possibly divided into product lines;
- Economic/financial aspects: linked to balance sheet analysis and indexes.
GAR has a well developed Independent Rating & Ranking System specific to each sector and project tailored according to our client needs. Unique rating and ranking system offered to our clients is dedicated to each project with further fine-tuning based on the client needs and the project nature .
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