Overview

The practice keeps the books of a Japanese company's Indian subsidiary to Indian requirements, and reports them to head office in Japan. The same team handles tax in India and across the border, and supports planning, financial control and transactions.

What we do

Books and reporting to head office

The subsidiary's day-to-day accounting, kept to Indian requirements, and its plans and results reported in a form head office can read.

  • Bookkeeping, reconciliation, month-end and year-end closing
  • Monthly and yearly financial statements
  • MIS along with major financial KPIs
  • Monthly cash-flow projection
  • Annual budgets, forecasts, comparison with actuals and variance analysis

Tax in India

Registrations, returns and the assessments that follow, for the subsidiary as a taxpayer in India.

  • Statutory registrations: PAN, TAN, GST and others
  • Corporate tax, advance tax, withholding tax and other direct tax compliance
  • GST and other indirect tax compliance
  • Support in tax audits and tax assessments

Tax across the border

Where the subsidiary's tax reaches past India: dealings with the parent, staff posted from Japan, and goods that cross the border.

  • Transfer pricing between the subsidiary and its parent
  • Expatriate tax for staff posted from Japan
  • Customs duties on imports and exports
  • Import and export classification

CFO support and transactions

Strategic finance support for the subsidiary's management, and the financial and accounting side of a transaction and its integration.

  • Virtual CFO and fractional CFO support
  • Financial control, governance and cash-flow management
  • Financial due diligence, M&A advisory and valuation support
  • Finance function integration and finance-process optimisation