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Service Lines: Outsourcing of Stand-Alone and Consolidated Financial Reporting (Closing Support)

  • Overview
  • Content
  • Advantages

1. Overview

Listed companies are subject to disclose quarterly report effective 2008. The workload of accounting division in each company has been increasing because of the requirements of disclosure and application of standards of transparency such as annual report, quarterly report and reports of the Companies act.

As early as 2015 IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) will be adopted along with the convergence. As IFRS is principle basis, it does not regulate each accounting procedure in details but companies are responsible to prove their accounting policies which they adopted are fair in accordance with IFRS. Therefore companies should select accounting policies always preparing reasonable explanations and evidences.

Once IFRS is adopted, it is expected that not only the procedure to prepare disclosing documents become complicate but also the volume of information of such disclosure increase.

Under these circumstances, it requires a lot of efforts to prepare appropriate disclosure by catching up with the latest accounting information and selecting best policies for each company and to prepare reasonable explanation and evidences of each selection and procedure.

2. Content of Our Services

We perform accounting and closing for your company whose management considers cost-cut of accounting as part of restructuring or thinks difficult to prepare stand-alone and consolidate financial closing and disclosure due to a lack of resource and knowledge.

Our service will provide you with solutions of your concern such as:

  1. Shortage of resource for a large amount of work.
  2. Willing to hire a person with high skill and competency but not being able to find a right person.
  3. Shortage of resource for temporally needs.

(Service Example)

  • Stand-alone closing support (Complicated accounting procedure such as reserve for bad debt, fixed asset and employees’ retirement benefit)
    • Preparation of accounting guideline for the customer   
    • Accounting works
  • Consolidating closing support
    • Decision of scope of consolidation   
    • Preparation of consolidation package tool   
    • Posting of journal entries for consolidation
  • Disclosure support   
    • Preparation of annual report (quarterly report)   
    • Disclosures related to Companies Act
  • Negotiation with independent auditors
    • Negotiation with external auditors regarding issues and areas such as impairment, revaluation loss, reserves, estimates and management judgment, etc.

3. Advantages of Our Service

We respond sincerely to your needs of outsourcing of financial reporting with three points below.

  1. Consultants with experience of accounting in foreign capital companies perform accounting works for you in accordance with Japan GAAP and US GAAP.
  2. CPAs with extensive experience in the international division of large audit firms controls quality of services on Japan GAAP, US GAAP and IFRS accounting and disclosures.
  3. You can save and minimize the cost with the service provided by our professionals with high skill and wide experience.