CERA Chartered Accountants & Associates

About CERA Chartered Accountants & Associates

Headquartered in Sharjah, with a corporate office in the Al Manakh area and a second office in Sharjah Media City, this chartered accountancy group also operates from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Malappuram in India. It reports around ten years of practice, more than two thousand customers and a team of over eighty specialists. The core of the offer is accounting, auditing and tax, extended with company set-up on the mainland and in free zones, bank account introductions, PRO and visa work, attestation, AML registration and liquidation of companies. Service pages address startups and small businesses, and there is also a section for multinational groups dealing with transfer pricing and international tax. Sector mentions are limited to finance, healthcare and manufacturing within the audit material. The website is in English, no other languages are named, and no prices are published. A free consultation is offered as the first step.

Services

Accounting covers monthly bookkeeping, backlog catch-up, financial reporting, cloud accounting and ERP implementation. Audit work includes statutory, internal, external, tax and VAT audits, due diligence, IFRS advisory and fraud investigation. Tax services span VAT registration, returns, amendments, refunds, deregistration and reconsideration, plus Corporate Tax registration and filing, transfer pricing, excise and economic substance reporting. Business support covers mainland and free zone set-up, corporate bank accounts, visas, Ejari, PRO, attestation and liquidation.

• ✓ Company formation: offered
• ✓ Accounting and bookkeeping: offered
• ✓ Tax compliance: offered
• ✓ VAT: offered
• ✓ Payroll: offered
• ✓ Audit: offered
• ✓ Bank account assistance: offered
• ✓ Residency and visas: offered
• ✕ Corporate secretarial: not listed
• ✕ Virtual office: not listed