Services Includes
- Consulting/ Valuation/ Due Diligence
- Accounting Advisory
- Assurance – Audits and Certification
- Controller As A Service
- Indirect Taxation
- Governance Risk & Control
- Taxation & Advisory
- Tax & Regulatory Services
- Estate Planning
Services
Consulting/ Valuation/ Due Diligence
Accounting Advisory
Assurance – audits and certification
Controller As A Service
Indirect Taxation
Governance Risk & Control
Taxation & Advisory
Tax & Regulatory Services
Estate Planning
With a view to ensure specialized services, we insist that each partner specializes and delivers one specific practise area. As such, we identify each service with a named partner
Consulting / Valuation / VCFO
- Startup valuations, financial instruments, Purchase price allocations, Impairment analysis etc.
- Transaction advisory / Due diligence including vendor due diligence, compliance and financial due diligence engagements
- Family office advisory & succession planning
- Virtual CFO
- ESOP advisory
Case Studies
- Family Office Advisory – restructuring of a family office – INR 600 Crores AUM – Succession planning, entity restructuring and capital conservation.
- Lead advisor for capital allocation/investment with initial corpus of INR 100 Crores.
- Strategic Structuring – Intellectual Property [IP], transfer and externalization of structure and cap table rationalization fur a Drug Discovery Company.
- SFO / Investment Banking – multiple startup clients across rounds – business plan / pitch deck / valuation / investor relations
- Valuations – delivered 100 valuation engagements in the last 2 years – NCLT / business valuations / Op
Audit & Assurance
- Statutory Audits – Companies Act, Income Tax Act and GST Audits
- Certification services
- IndAS / IFRS Advisory
- Consolidation of financial statements
- SOP for Accounting policies
Case Studies
Private Limited Companies – Audit under Indian GAAP / IndAS financials
IndAs Convergence
- Media major with 4000+ people
- Japanese manufacturing
- Language Tech Company
Consolidation support – decision support for policies, disclosures – Large investment house with interests in media, manufacturing
Advisory services – policies / estimation / disclosure
IFRS reporting – > 10 years for Israel based real estate group
IFRS 16 (leases) / IFRS 13 valuation support and accounting support
US Co – ASC 350 / ASC 985 – internally generated software capitalization
ASC 606 – Revenues support for US IT Co.
Accounting Advisory
- GAAP Advisory – for transition and complex issues
- Accounting and Financial Reporting health-check for fast
growth companies - Preparation for audits and due diligence
- Accounting manuals and financial reporting SOP
- Workshops and Trainings
- Audits – Companies, LLP’s and Income Tax Act
- Published author and moderator/ speaker in seminars
Case Studies
- GAAP change/ new standards – Advised over 50 clients across diverse industries in past 5 years
- Audit preparation – Assisting client to reduce surprises and achieve efficiencies
- Deals – Collaborative working with tax, regulatory and financial advisory experts for due diligence, structuring/ restructuring, M&A transactions, etc.
- Other Accounting Advisory services: Analysis/ memo for complex accounting issues relating to share based payments, revenue recognition, lease accounting, business combinations, internally generated software, compound financial instruments and hedge accounting.
- Early stage health check on accounting positions
- Trainings and workshops – on GAAP and Essential Finance concepts simplified for Non Finance professionals
Niranjan Raman
ACA, Partner – Accounting & Financial Advisory/Audit
Over two decades of experience with
Big4 to the level of Associate Partner.
Short corporate stint. Joined JAA in
December 2021. IFRS/ IND AS/ Advise
on complex accounting issues, Audit
and IPO readiness advice, Trainings
Avid listener of Carnatic music and will
read anything to do with Indology
Governance Risk & Control
- Risk-based Internal Audits
- Information Systems Audit – ERP post-implementation, ITGC
- SOX & Internal Financial Controls
- Advisory Services & Compliance
- Anti-fraud
- Development of Manuals & SOPs
Case Studies
Internal financial controls – end to end advisory / drafting / testing
- Manufacturers – subsidiaries of Japanese / German MNCs / Homegrown clients
- Startups – major Mobility startup / Language technology platform – acquired by India’s largest business house
Audit of Information Systems
- SAP post implementation audit – manufacturing clients
IT general controls / application controls testing – e-commerce / digital startups - SOPs / Processes
Finance, Sales and inventory – manufacturing clients
Digital startups – revenues, IT
Anti-fraud
- Travel related anti-fraud testing
Testing for fraud controls
Tax & Regulatory Services
- High end Corporate tax advisory
- Tax holiday units – eligibility / business presence test / restructuring / POEM / BEPS
- Multi level Corporate tax litigation support
- Business modelling and contract structuring, inbound and out-bound movement of personnel, IP migration strategies
- ETR management across jurisdictions and providing
- Complete solution along with tax compliances
Case Studies
- Compliance and advisory – Unlocked multi-year refunds through advisory / reconciliation of multi-geo withholding tax for a global IT automation brand
- Restructuring advice involving more than 25 businesses in India for a multi-national diagnostics client
- Transfer pricing compliance and advisory for multiple clients
- Wage code advisory and planning for more than 25 clients on a proactive basis
Controller as a Service
Setting up Finance and Accounts function
Controllership functions, Receivables, Payables, Payrolls, MIS & Budgeting tailored to the needs of the Company.
Setting up / streamlining
- MIS Dashboards
- Cashflow Management
- Top & Bottom line Improvement
- Accounting Policies Procedures
- Investor Relationship & Reporting
- Compliance adherence
Case Studies
- Scaled up finance for an organization which saw growth from 30 – 500 people – end to end advisory including accounts / finance
- Led finance team for a retail / hospitality with > 30 outlets
- Working with investors for a VC funded new age B2C retail chain / fintech Co / Analytics startup – MIS / investor relations
Indirect Taxation
- Complex indirect tax matters
- Compliance support services
- Litigation support
- Advance rulings / business structuring
- Central excise, GST / SEZ / STPI
Case Studies
- Advance ruling British subsidiary into diagnostic reagent machine + Favourable GST Advance ruling providing litigation immunity
- Compliance support for > 100 clients – end to end GST support
- GST advisor for known names in the e-commerce industry
Taxation & Advisory
- Complex personal tax matters.
- Works with > 500 clients
- Succession planning
- Real estate transactions / JDAs
- Negotiations and settlements