S M RAFIQUE & CO.

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Audit & Assurance, Financial and Business Advisory

SMRC highly value its clients and provides strong commitment to adhere to the assignment. Our experienced professionals and industry-specific experts put their best efforts to understand the client needs and help them to grow with necessary guidance, training and conflict management. Our goal as a trusted advisor is to provide insightful advice to enable our clients to make informed financial decisions. We strive to assure and maintain integrity and confidentiality of our clients’ financial records and information that they expect from us.
Our Audit & Assurance, Financial and Business Advisory Services include:

  1. Audit & Assurance
  2. Accounting & Financial Consultancy
  3. Business Advisory including merger and acquisition

Audit & Assurance Services

SMRC provides high quality independent audit and assurance services to its clients. Our partners count each engagement with utmost importance and ensure the quality of reporting to earn the trust of stakeholders. Our professionals are highly skilled and trained to understand the clients’ business and fundamental practices, and keep updated about International Accounting and Auditing Standards, applicable laws and regulations of the related regulatory bodies and the country. Our independent audit opinion, competency, proven value-added services have gained clients confidence at an expected level.
Audit & Assurance Services include:
  1. External or Statutory Audit
  2. Internal Audit
  3. Provident Fund Audit
  4. Gratuity Fund Audit
  5. WPPF Audit
  6. Public Finance Audit
  7. Risk based management Audit
  8. Process or Compliance Audit
  9. Forensic Audit and Investigation
  10. Functional Audit for banks and financial institutions
  11. Credit audit of big borrowers of banks and NBFIs etc.

Accounting & Financial Consultancy Services

  1. Preparation of Financial Accounts
  2. Outsourcing service e.g. book keeping & record keeping
  3. Preparation of Accounting Manual
  4. Preparation of Internal Control Manual
  5. Preparation of Operations Manual
  6. Financial Forecasting
  7. Business Feasibility Study
  8. Share and business valuation
  9. Liquidation, Merger and acquisition etc.

Financial Discipline


  1. Business Valuation
  2. Merger and Acquisition
  3. Capital Market Investment
  4. Business Advisory Services
  5. Tax Advisory Services (Tax Service, VAT Service & Custom Duty Service)
  6. Corporate Secretarial Services
Business Valuation

Business is like a living organism and determining the value of a business or a component of it surpasses the task of attaching a number to it and requires consideration of all the influencing variables. We can be handy to both buyer and seller side in the context of a business transaction, by valuing a potential target for buyers as well as valuing the intending seller’s business for prospective buyers. We can also address the specific needs of other stakeholders such as investors, lenders, authorities etc. through valuations of tangible assets, intangible assets, intellectual properties, and liabilities; valuation for tax purpose; determination of fair value and appraisal of investment proposals.

Merger and Acquisition

Provide best-in-class merger & acquisition (“M&A”) advisory solutions for its clients in buying, selling or consolidating companies across all industries in Bangladesh. For the buyers/sellers, LB would assist in
  1. finding and evaluating potential target companies or sellers
  2. structuring the transaction and valuation of the target
  3. assisting in legal, technical and all other due diligence
  4. Tax Advisory Services (Tax Service, VAT Service & Custom Duty Service)
  5. negotiation on clients’ behalf to achieve the best price
  6. negotiation with regulators for necessary approvals
  7. assessment of material agreements (asset title deeds, joint venture agreement(s), etc.)
  8. drive the process smoothly to reach closure of the transaction

Capital Market Investment

A capital market is a financial market in which long-term debt (over a year) or equity-backed securities are bought and sold. Capital markets channel the wealth of savers to those who can put it to long-term productive use, such as companies or governments making long-term investments.
Our capital market experts provide advisory services to individual as well as institutional investors by exercising risk minimizing approaches with a view to maximizing return.


Business Advisory Services

SMRC has been established by internationally experienced professionals with the intention to identify and unlock potential avenues for innovative ideas in business and setting up IT and industrial project to support the environment and develop the economy. We do provide business plan, setting up business automation strategy, accounts, cost management and arranging finance from local and foreign banks/financial institutes. We assist companies and individuals to establish business operation in Bangladesh including subsidiary formation, operating agreements, licensing and establishing relationship with banks, vendors, customers with our virtual stakeholders.
Whether a business wants to raise capital for investment purposes, grow through acquisitions or realize its value through sale, our team of financial consulting specialists can assist at every stage. We can provide confidential expert advice on a whole spectrum of financial advisory and planning services from raising funds to deployment like corporate finance, portfolio management, loan syndication, cost control & reduction, capital market investment, audit & tax services, debt advisory, risk management & participation, IT & strategic planning.


Tax Advisory Services

  1. Tax Service
  2. VAT Service
  3. Customs Duty Services

Tax Service

SMRC's tax practitioners provides comprehensive tax advice to clients operating in Bangladesh. We offer business tax and personal tax services to a wide range of clients, from multinational organizations and SMEs, to private individuals and family businesses. Our tax advisers will work with you to develop effective solutions to tax planning and tax compliance, offering cost-effective support and minimizing risk.

VAT Service

  1. Assist to maintain VAT related records
  2. Submitting the quarterly VAT returns to VAT authorities
  3. VAT planning and advice
  4. Assistance in the investigations made by the VAT authorities
  5. Assistance in the situation of additional taxes claimed and penalties imposed by the VAT authorities etc.

Customs Duty Service

The movement of goods across the globe is increasingly complex. Customs and Excise Duty may be payable on goods brought into Bangladesh from different parts of the world. Knowing which goods are affected, while staying on top of regulatory change, is crucial, as there are high penalties and commercial costs for non-compliance. Rates of duty vary according to types of goods and their classification. This means it is a direct and often substantial cost to a business. Understanding how these taxes affect your operations is paramount.
At SMRC, our dedicated Trade and Customs team and global network of specialists can help. We’ll advise on efficient trade operations and optimized supply logistics. This will give you confidence in your risk management and regulatory trade compliance arrangements.
How can we help?
We work with manufacturers, distributors and retailers to increase efficiency by:
  1. Undertaking Customs compliance reviews to evaluate current needs, processes and determine any risks and issues.
  2. Identifying opportunities to reduce and to reclaim overpayments of Duty
  3. Reducing the cost of duty by adopting efficient valuation methodologies
  4. Taking advantage of available reliefs
  5. Taking advantage of bonded warehousing, inward processing, free trade zones and temporary imports

Corporate Secretarial Services

At SMRC, we assist our clients to comply effectively with the requirements of the Companies Act and relevant legislation applying to local and foreign companies, partnerships and other business entities.
In addition to company formation, branch registration, business licenses and compliance with Companies Act, we can take appointment as company secretaries, attend board and shareholder meetings, act as independent scrutinizer, E-voting, prepare and distribute minutes’ resolutions.
Our team of company secretarial staff is comprised of qualified Chartered Accountants, Chartered Secretaries and lawyers who can provide a range of advice on corporate transactions, capital market authority requirements, employment, labor laws, business license and permits.


IT Governance World


At Modern technology base complex business environment is comprised of hybrid and multi-cloud networking, multiple ERPs with diversified features and automation spectrum such as Artificial Intelligent, Robotic process, Machine learning etc. being experiencing severe challenges due to cyber threats that costs trillion dollars for corporate houses around the world, and hence Cyber Security Audit Services getting popularity with utmost demand that SMRC's proficient and experienced professionals (both locally and internationally) are bringing at our clients door steps. Our other IT related services include:
  1. IT / IS Audit
  2. IT Risk Management Services
  3. ERP Solutions
  4. Data Protection Services
  5. Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) Services
  6. Penetration Test
  7. Website Design & Software Development
  8. Pre- and- Post implementation services

IT / IS Audit

IT Audit
Automation monitoring & management and general computer controls are key to safeguarding assets, maintaining data integrity, and the operational effectiveness of an organization.
IS Audit
Information System Audit, is an examination of the management controls within an Information technology (IT) infrastructure. The evaluation of obtained evidence determines if the information systems are safeguarding assets, maintaining data integrity, and operating effectively to achieve the organization's goals or objectives.


IT Risk Management Services

Organizations’ today are under ever increasing pressure to comply with regulatory requirements, maintain strong operational performance, and increase shareholder value. In this hyper-competitive environment organizations can no longer afford ad-hoc security measures. Protecting intellectual property, sensitive customer information, and other business-critical information requires a comprehensive security strategy that closely matches business objectives.
Our security practice is dedicated to providing you with world class security advice. This advice is based on our global knowledge and experience of providing security consulting services governing strategy, design, configuration, and assessment of enterprise security together with identifying/accessing management solutions to our non-audit clients. We provide security and risk services to both audit and non-audit clients in Bangladesh.


Data Protection Services

Organizational compliance requirements vary depending upon the industry as well as the nature of the business and its customers and employees. When data breaches happen, organizations can risk incurring lawsuits, fines, regulatory sanctions, and reputational damage. As organizations increasingly adopt highly complex and collaborative business models predicated on the sharing of sensitive information (most notably personally identifiable information), the focus on privacy and compliance continues to rise in proportion to the legal, regulatory, and reputational risks associated with such business practices. In response to this threat we can assist to protect sensitive data. Our key service offerings include:
  1. Risk assessment
  2. Enterprise Data Protection Framework development
  3. Data protection technology deployment
  4. Data classification and ownership
  5. Business process creation

Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) Services

DRP encompasses any activity proactively executed focusing exclusively on the recovery of technology infrastructure (hardware, software, data communications, telecommunications, electronic information assets) from a disaster event and ensuring continuity of operations at established service levels.
We provide a holistic framework for enterprise survival planning to deliver a reliable, resilient, secure, and performance-driven enterprise environment to meet current and future business needs.


Penetration Test

A penetration test, colloquially known as a pen test, is an authorized simulated attack on a computer system, performed to evaluate the security of the system. The test is performed to identify both weaknesses (also referred to as vulnerabilities), including the potential for unauthorized parties to gain access to the system's features and data, as well as strengths, enabling a full risk assessment to be completed.

Website Design

Web development broadly refers to the tasks associated with developing websites for hosting via intranet or internet. The web development process includes web design, web content development, client-side/server-side scripting and network security configuration, among other tasks. Web development is also known as website development.

Software Development

Software development is the collective processes involved in creating software programs, embodying all the stages throughout the systems development life cycle (SDLC). SDLC methodologies support the design of software to meet a business need, the development of software to meet the specified design and the deployment of software to production. A methodology should also support maintenance, although that option may or may not be chosen, depending on the project in question.

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