Ascent Group Annual Meeting

Ascent Group consultants have joint together last week (08/30–09/01) in Sibiu for the 3rd “Annual meeting” of the company. The meeting was attended by all the consultants of the company from the Bucharest, Arad and Chisinau offices.

The addressed topics were the strategy of the company for the next years, regional expansion and strategic partnerships.

During the meeting training modules were held, such as: “Communication skills”, “Clients relationship management” and “Team-building”. Not last, during the meeting, working groups on consulting departments were organized.

Due to the late political and economic evolutions, the Republic of Moldova becomes more and more attractive to foreign investors. The foreign investments in the Republic of Moldova recorded an important increase in 2007, compared to 2006. The Vice-president of the Moldavian Legislative, Iurie Rosca assures that the Republic of Moldova is open to the cooperation with the foreign businessmen and has the ambition of becoming a truly functional economy.

The territorial Network of Ascent Group includes, besides the offices from Romania, (Bucharest and Arad) also offices in Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Republic of Moldova and Chisinau.

Daniela Ostafe, former coordinator of the Accounting and Finance department of Ascent Group in Bucharest was recently promoted as member of the Board of Ascent Group Romania (where the other members are Adela Cristea and Marcel Chiscan). In this position Daniela will coordinate the whole financial and accounting activity of the group in Romania.

Daniela joined the team of Ascent Group since 2005 having 5 of years experience in the fiscal and economic field, gathered in companies like Prisma and Archimedes Consulting Group.

Daniela graduated the Economic and Business Administration Faculty, with a degree in Accounting.

During June 6-7, 2006, Ascent Goup organized the first Ascent Business Forum in Chisinau, the capital of the Republic of Moldavia. 24 companies from 6 countries took part in the event (Romania, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Germany and the USA) which showed interest for establishing business relations with the Republic of Moldova.

The debates were centered on the business environment problem in the Republic of Moldova and on the opportunities this environment offers. The participants appreciated that Moldova is a country with a rising potential regarding the investments and many of them showed their intention of starting businesses in this country.