FAQ’s

We are the Outsourcing Division of SAS Consultancy, a UK Chartered Certified Accountancy Practice (ACCA)
We have a complete set up in India for Accountancy and related outsourcing services
All the key staff and managers are fully trained and experienced with UK Accounting, Taxation and Payroll regulations. Senior Managers are Qualified Chartered Accountants.
We use almost all popular Software Packages, including:
- Accounts/Tax : Sage, Digita, VT, Taxcalc, IRIS
- VAT/Bookkeeping (Offline & Cloud): Sage 50 Accounts, VT, TAS Books, QuickBooks (Offline & Cloud), Xero, Kashflow
- Payroll: Sage, Money Soft Payroll

We are governed by the Rules and Regulations of ACCA
We have Professional Indemnity Insurance
We sign a Confidentiality Agreement
We commit to a Non-Circumvention Agreement; hence we will never approach your clients directly for any work.
We are bound by the provisions of Data Protection Act 2018 – GDPR. We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office

Before you commit to an Agreement, we offer you to provide us up to any 2 Clients files for us to prepare the Accounts, Tax Returns and related schedules/working papers. This is without obligation and without any charge. However, we will give you an indication of the costs for the work carried out.
You assess our work and then decide whether you wish to appoint us to carry out your outsourcing work or not.
We also invite you to visit our operations in India. You pay for the flights and we will provide accommodation. On average it takes 2-3 days to inspect our set up and have meetings with senior Partners and Managers.

No you are not
You may commit to us for a few Clients at a time and in batches
This gives you further opportunity to assess the quality and efficiency of our work and indication of costs for similar work.

We will submit a Proposal, based on our meetings, your possible visit to India and work done on 2 files
If need be, we can have further meeting/s to cover any salient points.

For Payroll we have set charges based on number of Employees. However, we can agree fixed fees if desired
For all other work we can charge on an hourly basis or agree a Fixed Fee. It will depend on the tasks involved and how the information is provided.
Assuming we are asked to carry out complimentary work on the 2 Files, you should be able to get a good indication of our costs.
Before commencement of any Client’s work, we can give an indication of number of hours it may take to complete the task. This we can provide after reviewing their paperwork and by what means it is submitted to us. For each Client File, we will request you to fill in a Questionnaire which will include various questions about the type of Client, tasks to be undertaken, how are documents/data to be submitted, deadlines – internal and external, etc.

For scanned documents and spreadsheets uploaded to the VPN, there is no charge for downloading
For Documents sent by Courier there are charges for collection and delivery back to you, after they are processed. Charges are per kilo of documents. Approximate cost is £6.50 per kilo, and DHL/FedEx are contracted to provide this efficient, secure and fact service.

Data uploaded to your VPN is fully secured at our end. You must ensure that your Server/System is protected from unauthorised access by ensuring that adequate and effective Firewall is installed
We have secured backups as well
Documents sent by Couriers are covered by Courier Insurance
We have adopted a very secure and efficient process for sending and receiving hard copies of documents. However, there is always a small percentage chance of parcels going astray due to circumstances beyond our control. We, therefore, encourage submission of scanned documents.

Yes, we do
We use all popular Software, including Sage, Quick Books, Xero, etc.
There are two options here:
- We be given access to your existing Package, or
- We set-up the desired software and give you access.
We will discuss these options in detail and agree which mode suits a Client, to what level access be given, etc.
If additional licenses need to be purchased, we can agree who will bear the costs

We have extensive process for recruitment of staff
New staff, whether they are Qualified and/or experienced or not they undergo induction procedures, including making themselves familiar with UK Reporting and types of documents they will be processing. Each new staff is given 100 different types of records including Invoices to acquaint themselves with. They spend up to 2 weeks going through internal procedures before they start doing actual work
Subject to the type of Client work, there are procedures where one or more senior staff/manager/partner review the reports before they are sent out to you/clients.

Initially a UK Partner and/or a senior Accounting staff will be involved, for the takeover process
Thereafter, a Senior Qualified Accountant will be assigned, in India, and he/she will allocate tasks to appropriate staff
However, all communication will be through us until both parties are comfortable in dealing with each other
Communicating directly with allocated staff in India will short-circuit the process.

We communicate through following mediums
- Telephone – allocated UK Numbers
- Skype
- Emails to designated staff

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