Achieving compliance and organizing financial reporting processes

How PKF F.R.A.N.T.S can help

Our Accounting Advisory professionals work with our firms’ clients to help them achieve compliance, advising on how they might organize their financial reporting processes and helping ensure that accounting operations match the objectives of the business.

Our Accounting Advisory Services practice works with our firms’ clients on a range of important matters possessing significant accounting ramifications, including:

  • converting to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
  • initial public offerings
  • merger and acquisition activity
  • cross-border transactions
  • improving the speed and quality of financial reporting (Quality Close)
  • improvements in the financial reporting process chain.

When extraordinary circumstances create a need for temporary assistance, e.g. during M&A activity or restructuring, we are able to co-source scarce accounting and financial reporting resources.

We can help client organizations deal with the accounting considerations involved in new regulatory compliance initiatives, including new accounting standards or regulatory pronouncements. We can also assist clients in fulfilling capital market expectations of reliable, transparent and detailed financial information. We advise on improving systems and processes to create an appropriate balance between performance, risk and control while delivering accurate and timely information to significant stakeholders.

We aim to deliver a consistent, cost-effective service. This service is backed by the resources of:

  • teams of financial reporting professionals in 145 countries worldwide, with in-depth sector knowledge and business advisory skills
  • one of the world’s leading business advisory networks

Business Process Management

Successful businesses often find their internal resources – from payroll to order processing – are fully stretched. Complex financial, operational, compliance and risk management issues can slip under the radar. Challenging business conditions can place additional burdens on managers. Key decision makers often look outside their organizations to help fill these gaps. It’s why the choice of business adviser is often pivotal to business success.

How we can help

PKF F.R.A.N.T.S advisers offer valuable perspectives, ideas, and options to help clients capitalize on opportunities and achieve their goals. We understand the concerns and issues you face every day and are passionate about providing service excellence to every client.

Payroll

Companies outsource their payroll functions – delegating payroll administration to a third party with proven expertise in payroll processes – to get more accurate, timely and confidential systems which are compliant with local regulations and laws and based on the latest technology. Companies can then concentrate on their core business activities, saving time and enabling them to focus on what really matters to them. Payroll processing is an important, sensitive and time consuming activity. Errors or delays impact employee morale and can affect organizational performance.

We can:

  • Process payrolls, including issuing pay slips and e-pay slips
  • Administer employee benefits
  • Ensure all payments are aligned with worker protection schemes (WPS)
  • Manage employee reimbursements and travel expenses
  • Update leave balances, including accrued and consumed leave
  • Manage bonus, overtime and incentive payments
  • Alert staff on expiry of passports, visas and other key documents

Bookkeeping

We have invested in a new, cloud-based bookkeeping platform which gives clients better direct access to a number of reports. This new platform also allows:

  • Accounting for monthly invoices and transactions
  • Producing monthly reports
  • Preparing payments for online banking systems

For those unable to embrace cloud technology, we can also store data on our own dedicated, secure internal servers.

MIS and KPI dashboards

We leverage leading edge proprietary tools and our experience gained from working with prominent companies in Pakistan for more than forty years to develop customized dashboards that are designed according to client needs.

Our seasoned professionals consolidate large amounts of company financial data onto dashboards – including charts and current status reports (often using RAG traffic lights) – so that key decision makers can easily understand critical information. Our dashboards allow senior management to make the important decisions needed to drive the business forward – as well as to see – and therefore deal with – issues before they become significant problems.

Process and procedural gap analysis

Our experienced professionals can review processes and procedures for single departments or for an entire company. We make recommendations aligned with industry-specific leading practice for departments including:

  • HR
  • Sales
  • Procurement
  • Operations
  • Finance

Temporary secondments 

We help clients augment their existing management and technical resources by seconding experienced PKF F.R.A.N.T.S professionals for short or long-term assignments.

When you work with a PKF F.R.A.N.T.S team, you will:

  • Gain access to quality people and proven business methodologies
  • Engage with people who both listen to you and speak your language
  • Receive advice that’s clear, practical and jargon-free
  • Work with a professional organization that tailors its services to your needs
  • Choose and pay for only the services you need and want
  • Enjoy the peace of mind that comes from working with people who take their professional and ethical responsibilities seriously

Cloud Bookkeeping (Xero / Quickbooks)

In today’s highly competitive environment accessible Reliable financial information is essential.  PKF F.R.A.N.T.S Team Deliver this information through cloud accounting solutions Which help our clients reduce administrative burdens and Increase efficiencies.

We know that every business is unique. We provide a full suite of tailored cloud accounting products which ensure the individual requirements of our clients are met.

Before suggesting a cloud solution, we determine our client’s specific needs. Our aim is to ensure our online accounting services integrate fully with our client’s businesses, streamlining the finance function and making day to day accounting and financial reporting more efficient. The result is instantly accessible real time financial information and reports that help our clients make better informed business decisions.

Cloud Accounting

PKF F.R.A.N.T.S cloud accounting solutions give our clients access to real time financial information.

Our online services include:

  • We provide powerful, cost-efficient bookkeeping services over the Web for small and midsize customers
  • We use standard software Xero / Quickbooks .
  • Instant access to up to date management accounts from mobile devices, PC’s & laptops
  • Free training for bookkeepers     /     finance team members
  • Online   review   of   financial   performance   and   key performance indicators

Cloud packages are shared solutions. This means our cloud accounting team have instant access to our client’s online bookkeeping packages and are always available to offer assistance, ensuring the finance function is operating at the highest possible level

Confidentiality

  • We at PKF F.R.A.N.T.S focus on the confidentiality of the client information and ensure that the client information is safely secured in our work environment by having strict internal controls on our client’s data.

Cloud accounting software gives users remote access to real time financial information anytime, anywhere.

  • Instant, remote, online support from PKF F.R.A.N.T.S Cloud Accounting team who are always available to answer questions
  • We have highly qualified professional staff
  • Makes   bookkeeping   easier, quicker   and   more convenient
  • Instant up to the minute financial reports –  from wherever you are

PKF    F.R.A.N.T.S   augments   your   cloud   accounting Offering with a range of online solution which include:

Online File Sharing

  • Data to be scanned and uploaded to Xero Online File storage by client on Daily or Bi-Weekly basis depending upon the number of transactions

Remote Desktop Support

  • PKF F.R.A.N.T.S troubleshoots client
  • remote access support increases bookkeeping efficiencies.