Services

Our Services

We provide a range of accounting, assurance, advisory, and consulting services nationally and internationally.

We are a full-service organization with a complete focus on niche services. Our services are not static but are completely tailor-made as per the changing needs of our clients. We continually ensure that our services are high standard facing the local needs and reasonably measurable at international benchmark.

We have service specialists and sector specialists within our service divisions to ensure seamless services to our clients.

The key differentiators of our services are as follows:

• Backed by four decades of experience
• Full-service organization
• Tailor-made services
• Sector-wise focus
• Continuous support for emerging and complex issues

ASSURANCE SERVICE

Our expert professionals provide a range of audit services based on a solid understanding of accounting principles related to the International Standards on Auditing. These are complemented by an appropriate knowledge of business systems, processes, and controls.

We are committed to delivering personalized and focused service and providing solution-based advice to give our clients and their stakeholders the assurance required. Our risk-based audit approach ensures that we focus on significant business issues affecting our client’s Financial Statements.

Financial accounting, interpretation, compliance, and reporting are becoming more complex and challenging with the ever-changing regulatory landscape and growing stakeholders' expectations. Alongside, there is a growing demand for accounting and consulting firms that can provide various assurance services anywhere in the world.

Our assurance team is trained to handle complex accounting and reporting requirements across the world. The services may include:

• Statutory audit
• Independent review of financial statements
• Restatement of accounts
• Quick impact assessment/end to end implementation of IFRS
• Special purpose management certificates
• Review engagement
• Donor audit
• NGO Audit
• Performing agreed-upon procedures
• Internal audit
• Special audit
• Management audit
• Performance audit
• Interim audit

CORPORATE FINANCE ADVISORY SERVICES

There is a growing demand for financing, funding, acquisition, due diligence review, expansion, structuring, restructuring, mergers, de-mergers, cross border transactions. These transactions are becoming more complex with every passing day and need to be managed with a great deal of expertise.

Our corporate finance advisory services are tailored to meet the needs of each client in these areas. Our professional teams combine an integrated global approach with extensive industry experience.

Solutions offered by ARTISAN:

• Due Diligence
  • Accounting
  • Bookkeeping
  • Financial, Legal & Market
  • Tax and VAT
  • Vendor Due Diligence
• Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Buy-side and sell-side advice
  • On-going advice on grooming for future sale
  • Assessment of strategic options
• Transaction Advisory
  • Joint Venture/Strategic partnership
  • Capital Restructuring
  • Corporate Restructuring
  • Merger/de-merger
  • Employee Share Ownership Plan Advisory
• Valuation
  • Business/ Share Valuation
  • Regulatory Valuation
  • Investment Valuation
  • Purchase Price Allocation
  • Intangible Assets
  • Fixed Assets Valuation
  • Student File/ Visa purpose Valuation
• Fund Raising
  • Advice on business plan and projections
  • Access to the right debt and equity providers
  • Integrate tax structuring

BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING (BPO)

Businesses need to focus on core activities and outsource non-core activities to specialized service providers in a highly competitive environment. We offer our clients a range of outsourcing services from payroll processing to end-to-end compliance

Considering the growing importance of financial and non-financial reporting, we have developed extensive service for domestic and global clients.

Outsourcing services:

ARTISAN offers business outsourcing solution that delivers a high level of confidence and professional results by focusing your business. Our main outsourcing services included:

Other than legal outsourcing:

• Accounts payable processing
• Payroll and payroll tax processing
• General ledger and financial statement processing
• Accounting services
• Human resource support
• Preparation of management accounts and management information systems
• Preparation & Maintenance of books of accounts
• Support in day-to-day Transaction Processing
• Bookkeeping and preparation of final accounts
• Fixed Assets verification and completion of records

New investment advisory:

Potential investors often seek supports on the strategy of forming their new business in the market with respect to appropriate structure that would best suit with the local regulations. Under this service area the regulators that our service unit needs to deal with broadly cover RJSC, BIDA, Central Bank, EPZ and BEZA. Generally following are the services fall under this service area:

• Name clearance and some initial information
• Drafting of Memorandum and Articles of Association
• Filing applications to RJSC/BIDA/EZ/EPZ etc.
• Help structuring capital with respect to RJSC and BSEC rules
• Guiding on the suitability of forming either BO (Branch Office) or LO (Liaison Office)
• Supporting VISA and other personalized supports to the investors and expatriate staff members including security clearances
• Preparation & Maintenance of books of accounts and periodic returns
• Submission of returns to various regulators
• Supports on clause 7 & 8 of BIDA and 18B of Bangladesh Bank
• Fixed Assets verification and completion of records

Legal outsourcing

• Formation, incorporation, liquidation and winding up of companies
• Preparation and filing of Annual Return
• Preparation of AGM minutes
• Preparation of Directors’ minutes
• Formation and registration of companies and close corporations
• Maintenance of statutory records
• Conversions of companies and close corporations
• Amendments to and registration of statutory details
• Increase of share capital
• Change of company name
• Change of Articles & Memorandum
• Preparation of Special resolutions
• Advice on secretarial matters relating to the Companies Act.
• Management of Litigation

Management of Legal Disputes

• License Issues
• Legal Opinion on Laws (not being directly licensed, we help getting appropriate opinion from the best possible lawyers from our strategic partners), Licenses, AOA etc.
• Compliance with Relevant Laws & Regulations
• IP Rights (Logo, Trademarks, Copyrights)
• Correspondence with Corporate Regulatory Bodies
• Drafting, Reviewing & Providing Opinion on
• Agreement, MoU, NDA, Undertaking etc.
• RFP, PO/WO, LOI etc.
• Legal Notice etc.

RISK AND ADVISORY SERVICES

Risk is persistent, and it can travel from anywhere – internally and externally. Businesses were never so susceptible to risk as they are today, and these risks will grow exponentially in the future with the increased uses of technology and being extensively regulated under various regulatory framework. Enterprises that effectively manage risks outlast and outperform those that do not.

We help clients in enhancing business performance through proactive and effective risk management frameworks.

We deploy risk professionals with a proven track record of assisting organizations in managing intricate financial and business risks.

• Business Advisory
  • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
  • Cost Control and Effectiveness
  • Fixed Asset Management
  • Account Receivables Analysis
  • Portfolio Due Diligence
• Business Resilience Services (BCP/DRP)
• Performance Management

Forensic Services

• Fraud Investigation
• Integrated Fiduciary Review
• Digital, Financial and Physical Forensics
• Dispute Advisory Service
• Pre & Post CDR Review
• Employee and Third party Due Diligence- Assets Tracking

Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Advisory

• Corporate governance implementation
• Family governance arrangement
• Internal financial controls (The Companies Act 1994)
• Enterprise risk management (ERM)
• SOX-compliance advisory including support services
• Advisory board formation
• Legal compliance management

Management Assurance

• Internal Audit
• Concurrent Audit/Second Opinion
• Management Audit
• Process Validation
• Revenue Assurance
• Continuous Control Monitoring
• Regulatory Inspection

IT Advisory

• Information Systems Audit
• IT General Controls Review
• Application Review and Pre/Post – Implementation Review
• SSAE 16 (SOC1)/SOC2 facilitation and SOX IT Controls Testing
• Regulatory Audits
• Security Compliance & Governance Services for ISO 27001/PCI DSS
• Data Migration Audit
• Third-Party Information Security Assessment
• Vulnerability Assessment Penetration Testing
• Data Analytics
• Software Development and customization

TAX AND REGULATORY SERVICES

We provide Tax advice services designed to help our clients apply the most effective business strategies. With our wide-ranging industry knowledge and experience, we are committed to deliver this and meet your highest expectations. We work closely with clients to deliver timely, high-quality tax services to maximize tax planning opportunities and find the right answers to the tax challenges in their respective industries. We offer advice tailored to your needs and circumstances and propose solutions that will enable you to move forward:

• Direct Tax
  • Domestic Tax
    • dvisory services/ Corporate & individual tax planning
    • ompliance services
• Litigation services Tax investigations
• Capital gain tax
• Tax compliance and preparation of various tax returns
• Assistance in handling queries & requests for information from tax authorities
• Tax assessments and appeals
• Preparation of income tax returns
• Inheritance tax planning
• Tax effective remuneration planning
• Tax investigations
• International Tax
• Analysis of constitution of permanent establishment and study on attribution of profits
• Expatriate services
• Inbound/ Outbound Investments
• Holding Company jurisdiction analysis
• Entry and exit strategy
• Management company
• Planning of group Intellectual property assets
• Indirect Tax
  • Compliances, advisory and litigation services Import Duty and Customs cases
  • Customs / foreign trade policy / special economic zones
  • Dispute resolution services
• Representation before adjudication/ appellate authorities
• Engaging and briefing legal counsel for representation before High Court and Apex Court
• Comprehensive tax reviews
• Customs / foreign trade policy / special economic zones
• Dispute resolution services
• Special advisory services
• ERP implementation assistance for indirect tax laws
• Refund/ rebate claims
• Transaction structuring and advisory
• Training modules
• VAT implementation services
• Mapping as-is scenario
• VAT impact assessment
• Advising on optimal business model
• Implementation support
• On-going support
• Mergers & Acquisitions Tax
  • Advisory
  • Pre-acquisition due diligence
  • Structuring / direct and indirect tax laws / business restructuring
• Company law and corporate governance, securities law for listed companies
  • Compliance with regulatory laws and accounting standards
  • Implementation
    • Review and advise on transaction documents
  • Post implementation support
• Regulatory Services
  • Regulatory relationships and advocacy – approvals
    • Assistance in obtaining various approvals and licenses
  • Structuring service
    • Structuring advise for transactions
    • Mapping of regulatory process
• Regulatory investigations
• Regulatory risk
  • Upstream / downstream / regulator risks
• Regulatory interpretations and compliance
• Special Advisory
  • Comprehensive corporate tax plan
  • Establishment of SEZ unit / Migration to SEZ
  • Value chain tax management
  • Family office tax advisory
• Transfer Pricing
  • TP planning / study and compliances
  • Global multi-jurisdiction transfer pricing study
  • Restructuring of business model
  • Analysis of specified domestic transactions
  • Seeking advance pricing agreements