K.S. Aiyar & CO

K. S. Aiyar & Co, Chartered Accountants, (KSA) is a leading accounting firm rendering comprehensive professional services which include Independent Audit & Assurance, US GAAP Restatement, Foreign Exchange and Regulatory Consulting, Restructuring and Valuations, Accounting and Corporate Support, Personnel Recruitment, Legal and Secretarial Support and Management Consulting and Tax Consultancy, Tax Audit and Advice o­n Indirect Taxes. KSA was established in Calicut in 1897 and Mumbai in 1900 and is the oldest Indian Accounting Firm in the country. KSA was founded by late Kalyan Subramania Aiyar, a pioneer in commercial education and the auditing profession in India. KSA was among the first few Indian audit firms eligible as early as 1905 for training apprentices for examinations in London of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors, London. KSA has its Head Office at Mumbai (Bombay), the country's commercial capital, with practice offices at Chennai (Madras), Kolkata (Calcutta), Goa, Bhubaneswar, Bangalore & Coimbatore and permanent local representa-tives in Delhi and Ahmedabad.

KSA is professionally managed by an Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer with a Managing Partner at the helm of each practice office. These persons are responsible for the Firm's strategic and operational management. The Firm has a Board of Governors, which includes two independent members and two executive members and takes ultimate responsibility for the governance of the Firm. KSA uses the latest international risk-based methodology in assurance services and renders international tax and foreign investor hand-holding. This enables the firm to keep pace with contemporary technical developments and to meet the needs of its clients.

Philosophy Statement

• To uphold high standards of honesty and integrity that make the individual and collective actions of those who work for the organization tuned to truth.
• To place the interest of individuals and that of clients' ahead of that of the Firm whenever the need arises to differentiate between these interests.
• To strive always to improve the quality of services, driven by the larger need, internal and external, to improve the quality of life and the standard of living, for society as a whole

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Corporate Vision Statement

• To perpetuate the sacred vision of the pioneering Founder of the Firm in the direction of being an organization devoted to commercial education - an objective close to his heart and mind.
• To be significantly present in all the regions of the country as a non-family, institutionalized, national, professional firm of repute, addressing primarily the mid-sized and large corporate segments and all those entrepreneurial-individuals who create and drive the economic growth of the country irrespective of size. To provide balanced and rounded threefold services in the related areas of professional practice: audit, tax and consulting, at all practice locations.
• To be a leader - competitive, dynamic - in the areas of operation, so that the best opportunity to progress and grow - at all levels - is available to all associated with the Firm, thereby directly serving the best-interests of the Firm's clients; and to develop and implement strategies towards that end.

Services:

• Audit & Assurance
• Taxation
• Management Consultancy