Advisory, audit, and tax services for professional services firms, consultancies, and service businesses across Nepal.
Industry context
Nepal’s service economy spans professional firms (legal, engineering, architecture, consultancy), business process outsourcing, IT-enabled services, marketing and creative agencies, and a growing base of specialised advisory practices. Many of these businesses earn revenue from foreign clients, raising questions on export-of-services treatment under VAT, foreign exchange repatriation, and transfer pricing where group entities sit offshore.
Service firms typically run lean balance sheets with people as the principal asset. Finance leaders focus on revenue recognition for time-and-materials and fixed-fee engagements, work-in-progress accounting, employee cost management, and the tax efficiency of compensation structures.
How SACA serves the service sector
- Audit & Assurance — Statutory audits and special-purpose reviews for service firms, including revenue recognition assessments for long-running engagements.
- Tax Advisory & Compliance — Income tax planning, VAT treatment of domestic and exported services, withholding tax on consultancy income, and double tax avoidance treaty application.
- Transaction & Financial Advisory — Support on partnership admissions and retirements, business valuations, and structuring of incentive and equity arrangements for key personnel.
- Risk & Internal Controls — Project profitability reviews, time-and-billing controls, and data security and confidentiality frameworks.
- Outsourced Finance Functions — Bookkeeping, payroll, billing administration, and management reporting tailored to service-firm economics.