Business profile
Set up correctly, report credibly, stay fundable.
Early-stage companies need a clean structure, a compliant entity and reporting an investor will trust. The cost of fixing this later is always higher than doing it now.
5 practices most relevant to startups
Discuss your positionWhat we get asked
The questions we get from startups.
Recognisable problems rather than a capability list. Each one has a route through it.
Entity set-up in mainland or free zone
Founder and cap-table structuring
Investor reporting and financial models
Lean outsourced finance and payroll
Market context
Early-stage companies in the UAE need a clean structure, a compliant entity and reporting an investor will trust, usually before they have anyone in-house to build it. The cost of correcting any of the three later is consistently higher than doing it at the start.
How we help
What we are actually engaged to do.
- Set up correctly the first time
- Entity, structure and registrations chosen for where the business is going.
- Investor-grade reporting
- A reporting pack and model that survive diligence.
- Lean outsourced finance
- The outputs of a finance function without the headcount.
Relevant services
Ranked for this sector, not alphabetically.
The order reflects where the work usually starts.
Corporate Services
Entity set-up and ongoing corporate compliance in the UAE.
Outsourcing
Your finance and back office, run by a team you do not have to hire.
Business Advisory
Decisions on growth, cost and structure, backed by numbers.
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.
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.
A term sheet is on the table and the accounts have never been prepared to a reviewable standard.
The founders need an entity trading within weeks, with banking and payroll working.
Related
Startups, in context
Next step
Talk to someone who knows startups.
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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