Company & Trust Registration - Chiro Public Accountants and Auditors

Secretarial Services

We render Company Secretarial work in terms of the Companies Act (Chapter 24:03). We also form and register Companies, Trusts and provide all Secretarial work involved.

Our professional and experienced company secretaries provide a variety of company secretarial services to your company.

They include amongst others:

Ensuring that you meet deadlines set by the Companies Act without fear of penalties for late filing or prosecution;
Advising you on the appropriate legal procedures to change the company name or the officers of the company.
Changing directors and shareholdings, declaring dividends,

Estate Planning

Estate planning on your own can be complicated and costly. And the list is endless... state taxes, bureaucracy, probate courts, unfair appraisals, health care concerns, eligibility of heirs, life insurance, annuities, burial or cremation costs, and intent regarding death-postponing treatment to name a few. Not knowing your legal and financial rights often ends up costing you more in the end.

We advise our clients of the benefits of estate planning to guard against Estates Duty and the drawing up of Wills, and further engage ourselves in the actual administration in the event of death of a client. We also form family trusts.

We help you...

Clearly define your estate planning goals.
Organize and create your estate planning team (experts on law, finance, and taxes) if you need one.
Evaluate and recommend estate planning options.
Prepare, organize and review your estate planning documents including current wills, trusts, health care and power of attorneys.

Corporate Governance Advisory And Internal Audit Services

We provide Corporate Government assessments and advisory services to ensure compliance with the National
Code on Corporate Governance of Zimbabwe and the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) Guidelines on Corporate Governance.

We provide internal audit services of the highest quality to suit the needs of our clients.
Businesses benefit from experienced, independent professional evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of their risk management, governance and control arrangements.

We work with businesses to identify areas for improvement and explore ways to meet their objectives. We can provide full outsourced internal audit services or working in partnership with inhouse internal audit teams, depending on client requirements.

Our approach is based on a standard methodology that embraces the key elements of the Risk Management Standards (ISO 31000) and fully complies with the International Professional Practice Framework (IPPF) issued by the Global Institute of Internal Auditors.
Core to the risk-based audit methodology is an understanding of the risk profile of organizations and assessing where internal audit work can add most value.

Focus areas:

We focus internal audit resources in areas critical to the success of the client
We meet all professional standards and requirements
We provide clients with assurances that their key controls and systems are in place and

We provide dedicated internal audit services without the day to day managerial functions and

We monitor key areas of the client’s organization
We provide clear opinions linked back to the risk profile

Services

Our services include:

Fully outsourced internal audit services
Partnering with in-house teams
Helping establish an internal audit function
Internal audit quality assessments accredited by the IIA
Audit committee training

Management Consulting Services

We assist our clients in strategy formulation and advice on development directions that underpin success or growth of small and large organizations. We review current systems and recommend improvement as would be necessary to ensure good financial and management controls.

By engaging us you will benefit from the following:

Objectivity we offer an independent, impartial, fresh viewpoint free of personal interest, pre-conceptions or existing traditions and loyalties.
Broad Experience because we work with a wide variety of clients and frequently give advice on issues relating to board responsibilities.
Analytical Skill we are trained in a range of analytical skills and know how to focus on the main problem areas and define the requirements for solution and benefits to be gained.
Full-time Attention we can devote full-time attention to the assignment free of the executive responsibilities of client managers.

Enterprise-wide Risk Management Consultancy

We provide specialist enterprise risk management (ERM) consulting and advisory services that identify risks proactively.
In an ever-changing commercial environment, organizations face an increasing number of uncertainties and challenges to decision making processes. These can significantly challenge even the well managed organizations, jeopardizing their ability to achieve set objectives through losses or lost opportunities. Because of this, organizations are now giving much greater priority to identifying key risks and managing these risks on an on-going basis.

Framework
We assist in the establishment of a dynamic ERM framework that fits each business’s needs which is critical to ensuring an organization’s success/survival. We assess the operating environment and design a framework that integrates with existing business and management processes.

As part of our framework, the organization’s risk appetite and maturity will be determined and supported by clearly defined risk management policies and procedures that will safeguard service quality, finances, resources and reputation.

We can identify mentoring, coaching and training needs that will suit the specific requirements of an organization to ensure “buy-in” to an organization’s specific risk management approach.

Risk identification and evaluation
Organizations are increasingly being expected to demonstrate that they have effectively identified, assessed and evaluated the risks they are exposed to, and have put in place appropriate mitigation measures to try to prevent the ‘worst case’ scenarios becoming a reality.

We can provide tailored expert advice to help organizations identify and mitigate these risks.

Procurement Probity, Assurance And Advisory

We understand that the circumstances and requirements of each procurement process are unique. Our services are tailored to each individual process and are applied with common sense and flexibility. Procurement is one area that has high risk of fraud and occupational abuse. Probity becomes essential in any procurement process.

We have the expertise to provide objective and independent probity assurance and advisory services. Our competences in this area enable us to understand the risks that may jeopardize the integrity and compliance of a procurement process and enable us to provide timely, objective and commercially practical advice.

Focus areas:

Comprehensive involvement before, during and after the course of a procurement process, through to the provision of advice sought on specific issues.
Ensuring the process is compliant with the prescribed procurement requirements and Improving the process and outcome.
Having reviewed the procurement tender and associated evaluation documents for compliance with requirements, we monitor the progress of the procurement, which enables us to identify issues and provide timely, independent advice.
Our procurement audit services verify and provide assurance to the project teams and governance bodies that the process undertaken was consistent with the published tender documents, and that it complied with the terms of the prescribed process, rules and guidelines.
Audit activity which is generally undertaken after the process has been completed, while probity assurance can be provided at any logical stage. Probity affords an opportunity to introduce process improvements in subsequent activities of implementation.