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Audit and Assurance

Assurance is important in establishing and strengthening trust and credibility of your business, beyond conventional statutory and compliance purposes.

Statutory audit

Audit is mandatory for Companies incorporated under the Companies Act 2016 and Labuan Companies Act 1990 with certain exemptions. We are approved auditors registered with the Ministry of Finance pursuant to the Companies Act 2016 as well as the Labuan Financial Services Authority Act 1996.

Agreed-upon procedures

Agreed-upon procedures are for the auditors to carry out procedures of an audit nature to report on the factual findings based on procedures and objectives agreed upfront. For example:

  • Verifying information included in the self-declaration form for submission to the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (“MDEC”) for MSC Malaysia status companies.
  • Verifying qualifying production expenses for application to the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (“FINAS”) for the Film in Malaysia Incentive (“FIMI”).

Special audit

We can perform special audits that include:

  • forensic audit and investigation on potential fraud matters.
  • audit for exhibition, events, projects, housing development account etc.
  • review of interim financial information.
  • audit for cooperatives and associations including joint management body/management corporation bodies for buildings condominium, charitable organisation etc. These are performed based on requirements of the Labuan Foundations Act 2010, Societies Act 1960 and Strata Management Act 2013.

Tax

Building a healthy tax environment is essential for your business in order to respond to the increasing complexity and legal requirement for tax.

Corporate and Individual Tax Compliance

We can assist with your personal / corporate compliance matters that include:

  • Preparing and submitting your annual tax returns.
  • Submitting / revising your annual tax estimates.
  • Application for tax refund / tax instalment schemes

Tax appeal

We can assist with tax appeal matters including appeal to the Inland Revenue Board and the Special Commissioners of Income Tax.

Tax audit and investigations

We can assist to manage your tax audit and investigation matters, devising optimal defence strategies, discuss and negotiate with the Inland Revenue Board with the objective to finalise the tax audit favourably.

Transfer pricing compliance

We can assist with the preparation of your transfer pricing documentation based on requirements of the Malaysian Transfer Pricing Rules as well as the Malaysian Transfer Pricing Guidelines.

Tax advisory

We can provide solutions in mitigating tax risks in a practical and efficient manner without breaching relevant tax anti-avoidance provisions. This includes:

  • Business restructuring to achieve a tax efficient business structure.
  • Tax due diligence on mergers and acquisitions.
  • Transaction structuring to maximise tax benefits.
  • Debt rationalisation.
  • Advisory on real property gains tax matters.

Voluntary disclosure

We can assist with the voluntary disclosure of your business’s tax liabilities with respect to corporate income tax, transfer pricing, sales and services tax.

Capital allowance maximization

We can review your renovation and construction expenses to allow your business to enjoy maximum deduction in claiming capital allowances.

Sales and services tax

We can assist with the following with respect to sales and services tax (“SST”):

  • Review of your sales and services compliance including policy and tax filing.
  • Registration / deregistration of SST for your business.
  • Advise on service tax relief on services within the same group of companies.

Tax incentive applications

We can assist to review as well as apply for relevant tax incentives for your business.

Corporate and Advisory Services

As the business landscape becomes more competitive and stringent with respect to regulations, it is important to establish a strong foundation of business to be sustainable.

Entity Formation and Business Establishment

We can advise on the type of entity and appropriate corporate structure based on your business requirements. The formation of business include incorporation with the Companies Commission of Malaysia.

Secretarial and Corporate Governance

We can provide you with a registered office and maintain your statutory records. We can manage your annual return, board meetings as well as assist with dividend declaration, change of ownership/ director/ constitution/ company name etc.

Payroll services

We can assist with your payroll requirements and provide the following services:

  • statutory registration with IRB, EPF, SOCSO, HRDF.
  • prepare and process monthly payroll (salaries, overtime, allowances, statutory deductions etc).
  • prepare and submit electronic payment file to the IRB, EPF and SOCSO portals for payment.
  • prepare monthly payroll report and payslip
  • prepare employee EA form and Company’s E form.

Benchmarking

We can assist in preparing / updating benchmarking based on specific industry to substantiate the arm’s length nature of your business transactions undertaken with related parties.

We can also assist to benchmark your business performance against your direct competitor’s business performance.

Pricing policy and agreement review

We can assist to set up pricing policy and review your Company’s agreements and provide our comments from a compliance and tax perspective.

Accounting

We can provide the following accounting services:

  • initial setup of accounting codes and ledgers ready for operational use.
  • bookkeeping services, consolidation, bank reconciliation and preparation of financial statements.

Liquidation, Dissolution and Cessation

We can assist businesses that wish to suspend or cease business operations that include members’ voluntary winding up and striking off. We can assist in managing the liquidation process of the business including application of tax clearance for cessation of business.

Due diligence

We can assist to undertake due diligence on potential targets for merger and acquisition.

Internal Audit & Control Advisory

We can assist with the following:

  • set-up / review of internal control of businessess in strengthening control environment.
  • perform fraud risk control assessment.
  • perform internal audit review.

Budgets and forecasts

We can assist in preparing/reviewing your budgets and forecasts for internal financial performance management / project tender submission. We can also assist in preparing project cashflow and forecasts for loan application purposes.

Customer Screening and Monitoring

We can perform new customer screening (Know Your Customer, KYC) before you decide to accept the customer or monitor your existing customer’s financial health and credit standings.

Based on the customer’s company profile, financial health (up to 5 years), legal cases, loan applications, payment history with financial institutions, utilities, and telecommunication companies, you will be better informed to accept customers with good credit standings, to modify credit terms for customers with moderate credit standings or to reject customers with bad credit standings.

Ultimately, you can reduce the Company’s bad debts and increase recoverability from your customers.

New Customer Sales Lead

We can assist in identifying new customers for your business by generating a list of companies based on their principal activities in a specific location of your interest. The information includes your new target company names, phone number, email address, business address, company revenue, profit before tax etc.

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