Audit and Assurance

Assurance services and ‘adding value’ are not usually viewed together, since the primary objective of an audit is to provide an independent opinion on a company’s annual accounts.

Moore Stephens International member firms recognize the commercial importance of providing assurance on business controls so that there are no surprises. Equally, they understand the importance of providing advice to help clients develop their business.

The key to a valuable compliance service is the strength of the relationship between the client and the service team. This enables our work to be thoroughly and accurately planned and tailored to their specific needs.

Taxation

Our modern service provides clients with a high quality compliance service in all aspects of local taxation. Similarly, a long involvement in international commercial matters enables us to provide advice on appropriate business structures for clients’ international operations, having regard to both practicality and tax planning issues.

Advisory Services

o Management Consulting

Access to the resources of our worldwide network of member firms enables us to provide a full range of services in areas such as:

• Organization Structures	• Viability Studies
• Treasury Management	• Management Information Systems
• Corporate Strategy and Funding	• Preparation for Flotation
• Commercial & Technical Search	• Project Planning and Control
• Relocation Studies	• Strategic Planning
• Market Identification & Measurement	• Pricing Policies
• Distribution Planning	• Privatization and Commercialization
• Diversification & Acquisition	• Business Processes
• Human Resources Job evaluation and rewards structuring Management development and training Employment law implications Redundancy planning and counseling	• Policies & Procedures Development

o Corporate Finance

Whatever ambitions you have for your business, Moore Stephens corporate finance specialists can help you to achieve them. They can provide specialist skills, practical experience, know-how and objectivity to assist you in you future plans, whether you are looking to expand, merge or sell your business. Moore Stephens International’s corporate finance experts assist in:

• public offerings on all international markets;

• the structuring and funding of ventures

• identifying acquisition targets or purchasers;

• due diligence investigations and valuations;

• assisting with negotiations

• preparing a business for sale

• business valuations

o Risk Management

High profile business failures and tougher regulations require organizations to manage risk more effectively, whether it be credit, market, liquidity, IT or other operational risk.

Risk management requires sophisticated techniques that help management to control risk as a major part of corporate strategy. Moore Stephens professionals can help design and implement a framework to manage or mitigate risk, and satisfy the demands of regulatory and other compliance.

As part of managing risk, Moore Stephens can provide or design risk - based internal audit procedures.