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Accounting Advisory
Our accounting advisory team help businesses meet their complex financial reporting requirements. The team can support in applying new financial reporting standards, IFRS/ US GAAP conversions, financial statement preparation, consolidation and more.
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Payroll
Our team can handle your payroll processing needs to help you reduce cost and saves time so that you can focus on your core competencies
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Managed accounting and bookkeeping
Outsourcing the financial reporting function is a growing trend among middle market and startup companies, as it provides a cost-effective way to improve the finance and accounting function. Our team can help with financial statement preparation, consolidation and technical on-call advisory.
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Accounting Advisory
Our team helps companies keep up with changes to international and domestic financial reporting standards so that they have the right accounting policies and operating models to prevent unexpected surprises.
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Crypto Accounting Advisory Service
Our team can help you explore appropriate accounting treatment for accounting for holdings in cryptocurrencies, issuance of cryptocurrencies and other crypto/blockchain related accounting issues.
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ESG Reporting and Accounting
As part of our ESG and Sustainability Services, our team will work with you on various aspects of ESG accounting and ESG reporting so that your business can be pursue a sustainable future.
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Expected Credit Loss
Our team of ECL modelling specialists combine help clients implement provisioning methodology and processes which are right for them.
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Managed Accounting and Bookkeeping Services
Outsourcing the financial reporting function is a growing trend among middle market and startup companies, as it provides a cost-effective way to improve the finance and accounting function. Our team can help with financial statement preparation, consolidation and technical on-call advisory.
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Business Tax Advisory
Our business tax team can help you navigate the international tax landscape, grow through mergers and acquisitions, or plan an exit strategy.
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Corporate Finance
Our corporate finance team helps companies with capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, strategic joint ventures, special situations and more.
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Financial Due Diligence
From exploring the strategic options available to businesses and shareholders through to advising and project managing the chosen solution, our team provide a truly integrated offering
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Valuations
Our valuation specialists blend technical expertise with a pragmatic outlook to deliver support in financial reporting, transactions, restructuring, and disputes.
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Sustainability with the ARC framework
Backed by the CTC Grant, businesses can tap on the ARC Framework to gain access to sustainability internally, transform business processes, redefine job roles for workers, and enhance productivity. Companies can leverage this grant to drive workforce and enterprise transformation.
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Business Tax Advisory
Our business tax team can help you navigate the international tax landscape, grow through mergers and acquisitions, or plan an exit strategy.
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Corporate Tax Compliance
Our corporate tax teams prepare corporate tax files and ruling requests, support you with deferrals, accounting procedures and realise tax benefits.
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Tax Governance
Our Tax Governance Services are designed to assist organisations in establishing effective tax governance practices, enabling them to navigate the intricate tax environment with confidence.
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Goods and Services Tax
Our GST team supports organisations throughout the entire business life-cycle. We can help with GST registration, compliance, risk management, scheme renewals, transaction advisory and more.
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Transfer Pricing
Our Transfer Pricing team advises clients on their transfer pricing matters on and end-to-end basis right from the designing of policies, to assistance with annual compliance and assistance with defense against the claims of competing tax authorities.
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Employer Solutions
Our Employer Solutions team helps businesses remain compliant in Singapore as well as globally as a result of their employees' movements. From running local payroll, to implementing a global equity reward scheme or even advising on the structure of employees’ cross-border travel.
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Private Client Services
Our private client services team provides a comprehensive cross section of advisory services to high net worth individuals and corporate executives, allowing such individuals to concentrate on their business interests.
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Welfare and benefits
We believe that a thriving team is one where each individual feels valued, fulfilled, and empowered to achieve their best. Our welfare and benefits aim to care for your wellbeing both professionally and personally.
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Career development
We want to help our people learn and grow in the right direction. We seek to provide each individual with the right opportunities and support to enable them to achieve their best.
The Singapore Companies Act mandates that every company must appoint a company secretary. The role requires in-depth knowledge of both business and regulatory environment to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and to advise on corporate governance and best practices. Failure to meet statutory obligations can have severe legal, reputational and financial ramifications.
Partnering with experienced, qualified and knowledgeable company secretary in Singapore will give you complete confidence that you are meeting all your corporate obligations.
Why outsource your company secretary services?
As with requirements for other business-critical functions such as accounting and tax, Singapore’s requirements for company secretaries are many and complex. The pressure of adapting to the ever-evolving schedule of corporate legislative requirements can be overwhelming.
Outsourcing your corporate secretarial functions to our Singapore-based team will relieve your in-house team of time consuming corporate compliance activities. This means you can:
How we help
Our goal is to help businesses to succeed in the long term and meet the evolving compliance requirements in Singapore. We provide value-added services and solutions that are flexible and tailored to your needs, and more importantly, that solve your problems.
Our Corporate Secretarial Services team offer the full suite of company secretarial services to assist businesses establish a presence in Singapore, from top-tier multinationals to small and medium enterprises, across a wide range of industries, and assist them comply with all the ongoing governance and regulatory requirements.
Businesses can establish a presence by setting-up various business vehicles available in Singapore. These business vehicles have different characteristics and regulatory obligations.
We can help by:
- Advising on the characteristics and regulatory obligations of the different business vehicles
- Incorporating companies, registering foreign companies and transferring registration of foreign corporate entities in accordance with the Singapore Companies Act
- Incorporating variable capital companies in accordance with the Singapore Variable Capital Companies Act
- Registering limited liability partnerships in accordance with the Singapore Limited Liability Partnerships Act
- Registering limited partnerships in accordance with the Singapore Limited Partnerships Act
- Providing named company secretary
- Providing registered office and mail forwarding services
Stay compliant with every aspect of business regulations in Singapore.
We can help by:
- Advising on legal entity compliance obligations
- Managing statutory and regulatory compliance and reporting obligations
- Maintaining statutory registers, minutes and company records
- Advising on statutory and regulatory requirements for corporate actions
- Assisting with the implementation of corporate actions
- Preparing board and shareholders’ resolutions
- Attending and preparing minutes for board and shareholder meetings
- Advising on, preparing and lodging annual returns and other requisite filings with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore (ACRA)
Closing down your business can be unfortunate, but it does not have to be difficult. We offer advice and assistance to help you effectively manage the company cessation process.
We can help by:
- Advising on pre-dissolution and restructuring
- Striking off solvent and dormant entities
We also offer a range of ad-hoc services including
- Performing health checks on statutory records and recommending remediation actions
- Facilitating the legalisation of corporate documents
- Extracting of company information from ACRA
Our experienced and qualified corporate secretarial professionals are able to assist you with corporate actions including:
- Change of name
- Allotment of shares
- Transfer of shares
- Reduction of share capital
- Repurchase of shares (share buy-back)
- Conversion of shares
- Redenomination of shares
- Short-form amalgamation
- Alteration of constitution
- Issue and redemption of preference shares
- Creation, variation and satisfaction of charges
In addition to corporate secretarial services, we can work together with you to outsource your business functions to help you focus on what you do best. This will aid in streamlining operations, potentially reducing overheads, and staying in compliance with Singapore's continually evolving regulatory landscape.
Why Grant Thornton
Our deep local expertise makes us the chosen partner of major multinationals, small private firms and everything in between.