Azure Global is dedicated to providing its clients financial business advisory services to help them achieve their goals and ambitions and go beyond those ambitions. Our services are specifically designed for mid-tier businesses often referred to as Small and Medium Sized Enterprises or SME sector and forward thinking Accountancy Practices. These businesses are the backbone of a country´s economy and are often poorly serviced when it comes to financial and general business advice.
SME businesses requirements and challenges are different to those of multinational businesses and the help and advice they need has to look beyond compliance and tax planning issues. However, limited budgets and high costs often make it difficult for them to look beyond getting basic compliance work done from their accountants / business advisors. Realising the potential need and gap of available cost effective solutions in the market, Azure Global launched its Shorplacement™ approach in 2006.
By reducing the cost of compliance work ranging from book keeping, producing VAT returns to preparation of management and statutory accounts through Shoreplacemen™, Azure Global has allowed its clients to get the services of highly experienced part time Finance Directors without putting significant strain on the budgets of these businesses. As our FDs have time and experience to look at the business as a whole and not just the financial aspects our clients gain much better value for their money and a high return on their investment than going down the traditional part time FD route.
Accountancy Practices operate in a highly competitive and price sensitive market. Recruiting and retaining good staff members is a challenge and with the salary costs of qualified accountants increasing significantly over the past few years the strain on margins for compliance based work has never been greater.
Our outsourcing proposition based on our Shoreplacement™ approach enables accountancy practices to turn fixed costs into variable overheads, increase margins by up to 40%, reduce dependency on key staff members and free up time to concentrate on growth organically or through acquisitions.
We were among the pioneers of F&A offshore outsourcing in the UK and have over 20 years of business advisory services experience within the SME market. Azure Global management team includes individuals with in depth knowledge and experience of business advisory services as well as F&A outsourcing, which makes our proposition unique for our clients. We are better placed to help them realise their business potential than our competitors.
Our back offices in Lahore and Colombo employ UK qualified accountants and we are registered to train ICAEW and ACCA accountants at our offshore locations. Our partnership with our clients is based on trust, honesty and integrity and our staff members whether employed in the UK or offshore abide by the same principles.