Business profile
One team for accounting, tax and the decisions in between.
Owner-managed businesses rarely need a full finance department, but they do need all of its outputs. One accountable team covering books, filings and advice is usually the right answer.
5 practices most relevant to SMEs
Discuss your positionWhat we get asked
The questions we get from SMEs.
Recognisable problems rather than a capability list. Each one has a route through it.
Corporate Tax and VAT registration and filing
Outsourced accounting and payroll
Management reporting owners can act on
Funding, banking and cash flow support
Market context
Owner-managed businesses rarely need a full finance department but do need all of its outputs, plus someone accountable for the filings. One team covering books, returns and advice is usually the right answer, and considerably cheaper than the alternative.
How we help
What we are actually engaged to do.
- One team for books, tax and advice
- A single point of accountability across compliance and decisions.
- Reporting an owner can act on
- Short, current, and about the decisions actually in front of you.
- Funding and banking support
- The numbers and the narrative lenders ask for.
Relevant services
Ranked for this sector, not alphabetically.
The order reflects where the work usually starts.
Outsourcing
Your finance and back office, run by a team you do not have to hire.
Tax
UAE Corporate Tax, VAT and transfer pricing, handled end to end.
Accounting & Finance
A finance function that reports on time and holds up to scrutiny.
Business Advisory
Decisions on growth, cost and structure, backed by numbers.
Corporate Services
Entity set-up and ongoing corporate compliance in the UAE.
Where we get the call
Situations we are brought into.
These describe work we are engaged to do. Named engagement notes publish only where a client has approved them.
Corporate Tax and VAT obligations have arrived and there is nobody internally who owns them.
The business has outgrown its bookkeeper but cannot justify a finance manager.
Related
SMEs, in context
Relevant insights
Next step
Talk to someone who knows SMEs.
Bring the specific problem. The first conversation is about establishing whether there is one, and what it would take to resolve.
Not ready for a meeting? Ask one specific question instead.
What follows
- A person in the relevant practice reads it, not a routing queue.
- One reply that already contains a view, not a request to book a call.
- A written scope and fee basis, or a straight answer that there is no work to do.
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