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Accounts outsourcing · Virtual CFO · Since 1994

Your books and your CFO, fully managed.

Qualified accountants run your books every day, close them on time every month and file every return. A virtual CFO sits at your table for cash flow, funding and board reporting.

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Serving clients across , the and .

Market entryExpanding into Africa or the Middle East?Explore → Enter → Operate
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1994Established
80+Clients supported
16Countries covered
97%Client retention
3Regions served
24×7Access to your books

Trusted by 80+ businesses across 16 countries

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Technology, media & financial servicesRetail & consumer brandsManufacturing & industrialConstruction, property & equipment
What we do

At our core: Accounts Outsourcing and Virtual CFO.

Most clients start with one and add the other. Around them sits everything a growing business needs to enter, run and report across several countries.

Core service

Accounts Outsourcing

A fully staffed accounting department for less than the cost of one senior hire. Books, payables, receivables and month-end, run on your software.

  • Daily bookkeeping and bank reconciliations
  • Payables, receivables and vendor ageing
  • Payroll processing and statutory filings
  • VAT, withholding and e-invoicing compliance
  • Intercompany and multi-currency reconciliation
  • IFRS, US GAAP and Ind AS reporting
  • Monthly management accounts and KPI packs
  • Audit-ready files and auditor liaison
Your month-end, working day by day ◇
WD 1Bank & cash cut-off
WD 2Payables & accruals
WD 3Reconcile & review
WD 4Draft P&L and balance sheet
WD 5Monthly pack sent
Core service

Virtual CFO

An experienced, qualified CFO on your leadership team, part-time. Strategy, funding and control for as little as a quarter of a full-time CFO's cost.

  • Budgets, forecasts and rolling cash flow
  • Consolidated board packs with commentary
  • Bank facilities, debt and equity raises
  • Working capital and treasury management
  • Ratios, drivers and variance analysis
  • Internal controls for remote operations
  • Tax structuring and regulatory readiness
  • Live dashboards connected to your ERP
Your first 90 days with a virtual CFO
Wk 1–2Diagnose finance & controls
Wk 3–413-week cash forecast
Wk 5–8Budget & KPI dashboard
Wk 9–12First board pack
MonthlyCFO review meeting

And everything around them

One partner, one contract and one point of contact across every country you operate in. Expanding? See our Africa & Middle East entry programme.

Regional consolidation

All entities reported as one group, in your reporting currency, every month.

Audit & assurance

Internal and forensic audits that test whether your controls work in practice.

Financial intelligence

Real-time dashboards on your ERP or Tally, with expert review of the numbers.

Process & ERP

Process re-engineering, ERP implementation, migration and repair.

AI handles the volume: capture, reconciliation and anomaly detection. Every output is reviewed and signed off by a qualified professional.
Client stories

Don't take our word for it. Take theirs.

The first six of many client stories, from Kenya, East Africa and the Gulf, in their own words. Three come from the leadership of the Computech Group, a client since 2018. More are being recorded and added.

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These are just a few of our client stories. We serve 80+ businesses across 16 countries, and more testimonial videos are being uploaded. Prefer to hear it first-hand? Ask us for a reference call with a client in your market.

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Market entry · Africa & Middle East

Your entry into Africa and the Middle East, fully managed.

Entering a market is one decision. Everything after it is execution. We take Indian and international companies from the first question to a running, compliant business in three stages, and the team that sets you up stays on to run it.

Built forIndian manufacturers & exportersGulf trading & holding companiesAfrican groups expanding regionallyBrands appointing distributors
  1. Stage 1

    Explore

    Fixed-fee diagnostic

    “Should we go, where, and how?”

    • Country selection and market sizing for your sector
    • Regulatory and licensing scan, with a tax overview
    • Foreign-exchange and profit-repatriation risk, country by country Often overlooked
    • Competitor and pricing landscape
    You receiveA written go / no-go recommendation, with an entry-mode comparison: distributor, branch, subsidiary, joint venture or acquisition.
    Typically 2–4 weeks ◇
  2. Stage 2

    Enter

    Project fee

    “Get us legal, banked, licensed and partnered.”

    • Structuring: entity type, holding structure, treaty benefits and transfer pricing set-up
    • India-side ODI compliance for Indian investors
    • Incorporation, tax and VAT registration, bank accounts, sector licences and work permits
    • Partner and distributor search with due diligence, through our local network Where most firms get stuck
    • Incentives and financing: Exim Bank of India lines of credit, African EPZ / SEZ schemes and AfCFTA rules of origin for regional expansion
    You receiveA live entity with bank accounts, licences, permits and vetted local partners, ready to trade.
    Typically 1–6 months, by country and sector
  3. Stage 3

    Operate

    Monthly retainer

    “Run it well, and get our money home.”

    • Accounting, payroll, statutory compliance and audit coordination
    • Interim or virtual CFO, and a country finance controller
    • Dividend and profit repatriation planning, with India-side reporting Your money, home
    • Periodic country risk updates
    You receiveMonthly country and consolidated reports, every filing on time, and a CFO who knew the business from day one.
    Ongoing · Accounts Outsourcing + Virtual CFO
Inside the Explore report

Five ways in. One will fit you best.

Typical trade-offs we test for each country. The right answer depends on your sector, the tax treaty and the exchange-control regime.

Entry modeSpeed to marketYour controlCapital neededGetting profits out
DistributorFastLowLowSimple
BranchMediumFullMediumModerate
SubsidiaryMediumFullMediumModerate
Joint ventureMediumSharedSharedComplex
AcquisitionImmediateFullHighModerate
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Where we work

On the ground where you are going.

Delivered by our own teams and vetted local partners, coordinated from our head office in New Delhi. Select a region to see where our clients are. We are expanding to clients in more countries as we speak.

Expanding to clients in more countries as we speak
New DelhiHead office
MumbaiOffice
KolkataOffice
NairobiLocal presence coming soon
Our toolkit

We work in your system.

No migration needed to get started. Our teams work every day across the platforms our clients already run, and help you move when it's time to upgrade.

Why EPM

There are no old roads to new markets.

Large corporates are not the only companies that deserve experienced people on the ground.

One partner, every country

A single contract and contact across all your markets, not a different firm in each.

Local knowledge, not guesswork

People who work in these jurisdictions daily and know how they actually operate.

Advice that ends in execution

We don't stop at the recommendation. We register, hire, run the books and report.

Confidential and always open

24×7 access to your own books and strict confidentiality on every engagement.

In-house accountantEPM Consultants
People on your booksOne person, one skill setBookkeepers, reviewers, a qualified manager and a CFO
Leave, sickness, resignationWork stops until you re-hireContinuity built in; the team covers
Review & fraud controlsSelf-checkedMaker-checker review and senior sign-off on every close
Multi-country tax & IFRSDepends on the hireSpecialists for each market we serve
Strategic financeNot in scopeVirtual CFO available as you need it
Scaling upAnother recruitment cycleAdd capacity in weeks, not months
Leadership

Senior people, a single point of accountability.

Our partners stay close to every account, whatever its size. You will always know who is responsible for your numbers.

Salil Gupta

Managing Partner · Chartered Accountant (ICAI)

30 years across MNC and Indian firms. Has designed accounting processes and SOPs for companies in India, Kenya, Bangladesh and France, and advised large industrial houses on tax. US GAAP, IFRS and Indian GAAP.

Salil has guided EPM since 1994 and lectures at industry forums on the Companies Act, the Income Tax Act and accounting standards.

Strategic planningCorporate tax & lawBusiness set-ups, onshore & offshoreFinance transformationCapital budgeting & riskExternal audit
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Gaurav Gupta

Head, International Sales & Operations

Leads client relationships and delivery across Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, and serves as virtual CFO to several of the clients you hear from on this page.

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Vaishali Gupta

Head, Business Modelling, Indian Audit & Compliance

Builds the business and financial models behind our market-entry and virtual CFO work, leads Indian statutory audits and compliance, and sets up finance processes and controls for new clients. ◇

Business modellingIndian auditsComplianceProcess set-up

Manoj Birdi

Head, Costing & Analytics

Builds the costing models and dashboards behind our virtual CFO work. ◇

Anamika Birdi

Head, Operations & Quality

Owns delivery quality, review standards and month-end timelines. ◇

Still weighing it up?

Hear from clients who were where you are now.

An insurance broker whose CFO had just resigned, and a healthcare CEO with no finance background. Both handed the finance function to EPM. Then decide.

Questions

What clients ask before they start.

Will I lose control of my finances if I outsource?

No. You keep ownership of your accounting system, bank access and approvals. We work inside your software under user access you grant and can revoke, and you have 24×7 access to the same numbers we see.

How do you keep our data confidential?

Every engagement runs under a confidentiality agreement, access is role-based and logged, and team members only see the clients they serve. We can also work to your own IT and data-protection policies.

Do you handle local tax filings in my country?

Yes, across the countries we cover, through our own teams and vetted local partners, coordinated from a single point of contact. Where a filing needs a locally licensed agent or auditor, we prepare the work and manage that partner for you.

What does a virtual CFO actually do each month?

Typically a monthly review meeting, a management and cash-flow pack, budget-versus-actual analysis and on-call support for decisions such as pricing, hiring, financing and investor conversations. The scope is agreed with you and flexes as your needs change.

We want to enter Africa or the Middle East. Where do we start?

With Explore, a fixed-fee diagnostic: country selection, a regulatory and tax scan, foreign-exchange and repatriation risk, the competitive landscape and a go / no-go recommendation with an entry-mode comparison. If you go ahead, Enter covers structuring, ODI compliance, incorporation, licences, banking and partner search. Operate is our monthly accounting and virtual CFO service. You can stop after any stage.

Will we be able to get our profits out?

That depends on the country, and it is one of the first things we test. Some markets have exchange controls or slow access to hard currency. Explore assesses repatriation risk before you commit capital, Enter sets up the structure and treaty position, and Operate plans dividends and profit repatriation with the India-side reporting.

How is pricing structured?

Accounts outsourcing and virtual CFO work is a fixed monthly retainer based on transaction volume, number of entities and the reports you need. Market entry is a fixed fee for Explore and a project fee for Enter. You get a written proposal after the first conversation.

Free finance health-check

Let's map your first 90 days.

Tell us about your business. A partner will review your current set-up and come back with practical recommendations, whether or not you work with us.

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