Managed Operations

Books maintained continuously, not reconstructed at year end.

Day-to-day accounting, bank and ledger reconciliation, payables and receivables, and a closed and reviewed set of books each month. Prepared by AI agents under professional review, which is what lets us keep the record current rather than catching up in the weeks before a statutory deadline.

Statutory financial statements under Indian accounting standards.

Preparation of financial statements under Ind AS or the applicable accounting standards, including notes, disclosures and the schedules the statutory auditor will examine. Where a group reports internationally, statutory accounts are reconciled to group reporting.

Document the controls, test them, and evidence that they work.

Design and documentation of the internal financial control framework, mapping of process risks to controls, and testing sufficient to support management's assertion. Where controls are absent rather than merely undocumented, we say so.

Numbers the board can make decisions from.

Monthly management accounts, variance against budget, cash and working capital reporting, and the operating metrics the board or parent actually reviews. Statutory reporting answers to the regulator; this answers to management.

Monthly and annual returns, reconciliation, and the positions behind them.

Preparation and filing of periodic and annual goods and services tax returns, input tax credit reconciliation against supplier filings, and advice on classification, place of supply and credit eligibility where the position is genuinely uncertain rather than merely inconvenient.

Annual returns prepared on positions that will hold.

Computation and filing of the annual income tax return for the entity, including the disclosures and schedules its structure requires. Positions taken are ones we are prepared to support at assessment.

Audit and reporting under the Income Tax Act where turnover requires it.

Preparation and support for the tax audit report where the entity crosses the applicable turnover or receipts threshold, including the reconciliations and particulars the form requires. The audit opinion itself is signed by an independent chartered accountant.

Documentation and benchmarking for related party transactions.

Transfer pricing study, benchmarking analysis, and the documentation and accountant's report required for international and specified domestic transactions. Particularly relevant to capability centres and to Indian entities within a wider group.

Prepare the response and assemble the record.

Drafting of replies to notices, assembly of the supporting record, and preparation of submissions for income tax and indirect tax proceedings. Appearance before the authority itself is handled by our associated firm, whose members hold the registration that requires.

Withholding and advance tax, computed and deposited on time.

Determination of withholding obligations on payments, monthly deposit, quarterly returns, and issue of certificates, together with computation and payment of advance tax instalments. Routine work where the cost of error is interest and penalty rather than argument.

Annual return, financial statements and event filings with the registrar.

Preparation and filing of the annual return and financial statements, and the event-based filings that arise through the year — director changes, charge creation and satisfaction, allotments and resolutions. Filed within time, with the underlying records supporting each one.

Exchange control reporting for foreign investment and borrowing.

Reporting of foreign direct investment, share allotments to non-residents, external commercial borrowing and overseas investment, together with the annual return on foreign liabilities and assets. Delays here attract compounding, which is avoidable and expensive.

Annual returns, account discipline and utilisation reporting.

Annual return filing, maintenance of the designated and utilisation accounts, quarterly disclosure of receipts, and the utilisation records the department expects. The registration is only as secure as the compliance behind it.

Registers maintained in the form and place the Act requires.

Maintenance of members, directors, charges, related party and other statutory registers, kept current as events occur. Rarely examined until diligence or inspection, at which point their condition is decisive.

Notices, agendas, minutes and resolutions to secretarial standards.

The full meeting cycle for board, committee and general meetings — notice, agenda and board papers, attendance and quorum, minutes, and resolutions filed where required. Prepared to the applicable secretarial standards so that the record supports the decision.

Contracts drafted and reviewed for what they will have to survive.

Drafting and review of commercial contracts, employment and consultancy agreements, leases, vendor and customer terms, and the constitutional documents of the entity. Reviewed for the position they leave you in when the relationship goes wrong, not only when it goes well.

Structure the transfer of wealth before it becomes contested.

Wills, family arrangements, trust structures and the documentation supporting an intended succession, together with the tax consequences of each route. Best done while the intention is uncontested and everyone concerned can be consulted.

Monthly payroll, from inputs to payslips to statutory deposits.

Salary computation, statutory and voluntary deductions, payslip issue, and deposit and return filing for withholding tax, provident fund and state insurance. Runs to a fixed monthly calendar, at any headcount.

Monthly contributions, returns and employee record upkeep.

Monthly contribution computation and deposit under the provident fund and state insurance schemes, return filing, employee enrolment and exit processing, and resolution of the member record issues that otherwise surface at withdrawal.

Registers, returns and filings under central and state labour law.

Maintenance of the registers and filing of the returns required under the applicable labour legislation, across each state of operation. Obligations vary by state and by establishment type, and mapping which apply is the substance of the work.

Gratuity, leave encashment and the actuarial position behind them.

Administration of gratuity, leave encashment and other terminal benefits, coordination of the actuarial valuation the accounts require, and management of the trust or insurer arrangement where one exists.