We keep you ahead of the competition by providing comprehensive financial information. To be a successful business, it is vital that business owners and managers have access reliable financial information on a timely basis. Our professionals are equipped with the necessary commercial and corporate experience to provide you with the accounting support you need to make sound business decisions.

With the ever increasing pressure to reduce costs but still provide reliable and timely internal financial statements, many companies are struggling to find the most qualified staff to efficiently meet their accounting and finance needs. We help your organization fulfil these accounting functions leaving the management more time on the core and revenue-generating activities.

Here are some reasons why you should outsource your accounting functions to us - administrative cost savings; ability to focus on your core business; improved timeliness and quality of financial information; access to greater expertise; and increased security and peace of mind.

Our accounting services include:

• Periodic Management Accounts
• Financial Statements Preparation
• Account Reconciliations
• Analysis and Review of Financial Results
• Cash Flow Management & Forecasting
• GST Reporting
• Transaction Processing
• Payroll Administration

We prepare individual, corporate and partnership taxes, providing our clients with accurate and timely tax filing and tax planning strategies in order to optimize tax savings.

Communication and effective administration are essential elements of a successful organization. Regardless of the size of your business, we are ready to support you with a team of professionals and support staff.

Our company secretarial services include:

• Maintain Statutory Registers
• Filing of Statutory Returns
• Directors' and Shareholders' Meetings, including preparation of minutes and resolutions
• Provision of Nominee Directors and Shareholders
• Provision of Nominee Company Secretary
• XBRL filing

Running your own business is extremely exciting and challenging. However, it can easily turn into a nerve-wracking experience. To optimise your profitability potential, strategic business planning is essential to a company.

We work with clients to determine the commercial direction of the business and then create the budgets to determine the resources needed to achieve the desired results. We support you on your strategic planning and budget process by reviewing historical results and management information, preparing the budgets for presentation and working on the financial numbers.

There are many options on furthering the growth of a successful business. Going public is one of them. The road to IPO (Initial Public Offer) or a RTO (Reverse Takeover) exercise may be tedious. We work together with IPO and RTO aspirants to evaluate and strengthen the financial reporting and internal control systems. We compile information required in the Prospectus which includes preparing financial reports, management discussion and analysis, financial projections and drafting of board memorandum as well as managing and coordinating with other professionals in the team.

Starting your own business is an exciting time. It's also a time to consider your business plans and business structure so that you provide a robust foundation that will support the future growth and expansion of your business. 1stConsultants provides sound advice on corporate structuring to help you determine the best type of structure for your new business, be it a new incorporation of a Singapore or an offshore company.

Other Start-up Services include:

• Statutory Forms and Regulatory Filings
• Constitutional documents including shareholders agreements
• Registered Address
• Company Seal
• Bank account opening
• Nomination of Company Secretary
• Nomination of Directors and Shareholders
• Visas, Employment Passes and other Immigration matters
• Ongoing Corporate Secretarial Services
• Assistance in the preparation of Business Plans and Financial Projections
• Assistance in setting up your Bookkeeping System or provide you with a fully Outsourced Accounting Service

Outsourcing of CFO and Finance Managers

The expertise of a CFO or a trained finance professional is beneficial to a growing business. Our pool of experienced professionals filled such roles when it is not cost effective for a business to engage a full time executive yet. This allows the owners and management to focus on revenue generating activities and decision making process, while being professionally and comfortably supported by our outsourced professionals.

Outsourcing of Finance & Administrative Personnel

We also provide outsourcing solutions to our clients' critical non-core functions. Our clients entrust its business processes through our independent control system so that the management can continue to focus on revenue-generating activities. These include finance, administration and cash management system either at the client's premise or offsite. Periodic cash movement reports are submitted to the owners and management detailing receipts and payments through the client's fund held in trust by us. We will set up a system for these processes that facilitate the record keeping and accounting system.

Executive placement

We offer a comprehensive range of staffing services and solutions to our clients. Our strength is to perfectly match individuals with our clients' requirements, ensuring that the staffing needs are met on time and that our candidates deliver the required results. We source for candidates with the necessary qualifications and experience to meet the requirements of our clients from our database.

Processing payroll is time-consuming. We provide a cost effective monthly administration service which includes calculating net pay, and bonuses, issuing payslips, disbursing payroll through direct credits, CPF submission, maintaining leave records and preparing IR8As and tax withholding reports.