Hong Kong

3E Accounting Limited, Hong Kong – Global Accounting Alliance Member

Economic Overview & Business Opportunities

Have a clear picture of economic overview for Hong Kong will lead you to doors of business opportunities in Hong Kong. In the first three quarters of 2016, Hong Kong’s economy grows to 1.4% year-on-year in real terms, after growing by 2.4% in 2015.  With the visible decline in tourist arrivals, the value of retail sales, dropped by 9.6% year-on-year for January to September, after the decline of 3.7% for 2015. The tight labour market condition was reflected by the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.4% for the three-month period ending September 2016, compared with 3.3% for 2015. Consumer prices rose 2.8% year-on-year in the first nine months of 2016, after increasing by 3% for 2015. Inflationary should be contained in the near term. Merchandise exports dropped 2.6% year-on-year in January till September 2016, after falling by 1.8% in 2015.

Despite of the declining of certain sectors, Hong Kong currently still remained as the world’s freest economy. Hong Kong is also the world’s most services-oriented economy, with services sectors accounting for more than 90% of GDP. Meanwhile, Hong Kong is the largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the third largest source of FDI, after Japan and Chinese Mainland.

Hong Kong is a popular venue for hosting regional headquarters or representative offices. Apart from being one of the world’s busiest container ports, it has also the world’s busiest airport for international cargoes. Being as a regional centre, Hong Kong is a premier offshore RMB centre, at the same time, the leading telecommunications hub for the Asia-Pacific region.

By saying so, trading and logistics (23.4% of GDP in terms of value-added in 2014) tourism (5.1%), financial services (16.7%), and professional services other producer services (12.4%) have become the four pillar economic sectors of Hong Kong.

There are still more room of expansion for other industries in Hong Kong, as it is the second largest private equity centre in Asia, the fourth largest stock market in Asia while being the eighth largest in the world. Meanwhile, Hong Kong is also the third largest foreign exchange market in Asia and the fifth largest in the world. Hence, industries that have clear advantages for further development are cultural and creative, medical services, education services, innovation and technology, testing and certification services and environmental industries. All these industries together accounted for 9.2% of GDP in terms of value-added in 2014. The development of the economy in Hong Kong coupled with the advantage of being the regional centre, Hong Kong still have more business opportunities await to be explored.

Abigail Yu – Director of 3E Accounting Group

Abigail Yu oversees executive leadership, led the operations and strategic directions for the whole 3E Accounting Group, including the IT Solution, public relations and digital marketing functions of the company to drive the overall competitiveness and success of business.

She graduated from National University of Singapore with a honours degree in Communication and New Media, and she was extensively trained and well-versed in business communication matters. Areas of specialisation includes crisis management, financial communication and communication management.

Audaciously ambitious, Abigail has successfully positioned 3E Accounting as the first robotics accounting firm in Asia-Pacific that is driven by Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), branded 3E Accounting as pioneer in spanning robotic business automation (RPA) in the accounting industry and a swift-adapter amidst evolving challenges in COVID-19. These reinforced 3E’s vision as the world’s leading service provider for staying ahead of major market developments and of other competitors.

Moving forward, Abigail will continue developing new strategies to enhance the current positioning of 3E and alleviate its standing for 3E to constantly stay ahead of the game as a market leader in the accounting field.