STC Audit et Conseil welcomes you

  • STC Audit et Conseil welcomes you

    The STC Audit & Conseil (Audit & Consulting) firm was founded in 1947 and is located in Tourcoing, just 10 kilometres north of Lille in Northern France. The firm also has a branch office in Valenciennes (Nord).

    The Firm is run by four Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors: Valérie Boudoul-Schatteman, Henri Delezenne, Achille Samyn and Marc Windal.

    It is specialised in providing management support to SMEs and SMIs with a clientele comprising businesses situated in Northern France in the retailing, manufacturing, services to industry and craft businesses sectors.

    Due to its location just one kilometre from the Belgian border and within easy reach for the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom, the Firm has acquired an in-depth experience of internationally-focused SMEs and SMIs and, among its client base, it works alongside a host of branches offices and subsidiaries owned by foreign companies.

    The Firm is a member of the international BKR association:
    www.bkr.com

Our missions

Our missions are primarily directed towards providing management support for SMEs and SMIs.

Being entrusted with the preparation of financial and tax statements on behalf of our clients, we are also able to offer services in the following areas: finance, tax affairs, social affairs, legal affairs, Information Systems and business management.

Accounting missions

  • Setting up an accounting organisation.
  • Adopting a customised charter of accounts.
  • Reviewing and correcting accounts.
  • Preparing annual financial statements.
  • Preparing interim monthly and quarterly balances.
  • Preparing interim and annual tax declarations.
  • Analysing annual financial statements and interim balances.
  • Verifying internal control procedures.
  • Bookkeeping.
  • Tax studies and consultancy.
  • Assistance with tax inspections.

Audit missions

  1. Statutory audits :
    • Auditing and checking financial statements.
    • Checking compliance with legal and statutory requirements.
    • Analysing procedures.
    • Special verifications required by law.
    • Certifying financial statements
  2. Acquisition audits:
    • Conducting due diligence missions to assist business purchasers.

"Payroll" missions

  • Reviewing collective bargaining agreements.
  • Updating and optimising social charges rates.
  • Preparing payslips.
  • Preparing monthly, quarterly and annual social declarations.
  • Paying salaries by bank transfers.
  • Advantages of outsourcing: confidentiality, security and reliability.

Legal financial statements' approval missions

  • Drafting Minutes of Annual General Meetings and/or Board of Directors' Meetings, and statutory Management Reports.
  • Advising during Annual General Meetings and/or Board of Directors' Meetings.
  • Keeping statutory Registers.
  • Accomplishing formalities for filing statutory financial statements with the Clerk of the Commercial Court.

Management consulting missons

  • Business performance monitoring reports, regular reporting and Business Plan.
  • Management planning.
  • Setting up analytical accounting and/or management control systems.

Management accounts preparation missions

  • Management profit & loss statements.
  • Cash flow statements
  • Preparing dossiers for presentation to investors/financial institutions.

Business performance monitoring preparation missions

  • Preparing a performance monitoring package tailored to the business.
  • Monthly or quarterly monitoring of key performance indicators.
  • Performance monitoring report analysis.

Business diagnosis missions

  • Business valuation.
  • Preparing the business sale dossier.
  • Analysing business strengths and weaknesses.
  • Assistance with business acquisitions or disposals.

Business transmission / Valuation missions

  • Preparing the transmission.
  • Valuing the business.
  • Assisting with business handovers.
  • Assisting with acquiring a business.
  • Drafting contracts and sale documents.
  • Calculating business disposal tax impacts.

Information systems support missions

  • Selecting hardware and business management software.
  • Training staff on the use of accounting and payroll software packages.

Corporate law consultancy missons

  • Choosing the legal form for the business.
  • Legal structure.
  • Forming the company.
  • Changing the company's Articles of Association.
  • Drafting day-to-day corporate legal documents.
  • Setting up employee representative bodies.
  • Assisting with Social Security (URSSAF) inspections.

Labour law consultancy missions

  • Day-to day support on labour issues (employment contracts, internal regulations, company agreements, relations with official bodies, etc...).
  • Social audit (analysing employment contracts, payslips, social declarations, internal regulations, etc...).
  • Assisting with dismissal/redundancy procedures.

Tax law consultancy missions

  • Fiscal aspects of founding a company or a subsidiary.
  • Tax status of corporate officers.
  • Merger, demerger, partial asset contributions.
  • Assisting with tax inspections and providing advice.
  • Optimising corporate and personal tax treatment.
  • Personal Wealth Tax (Impôt Sur la Fortune – ISF) management.
  • Optimising business transmissions.

Business start-up assistance missions

  • Choosing the legal structure for the business.
  • Seeking out grants and sources of financing.
  • Preparing management accounts.
  • Optimising the business' tax regime.
  • Optimising the business manager's tax regime.

French subsidary start-up assistance missions for foreign companies

  • Applying international tax agreements.
  • Optimising the business' tax regime.
  • Optimising the business manager's tax regime.
  • Choosing the legal structure for the business.
  • Drafting day-to-day legal documents (Articles of Association, Minutes of AGMs, etc...).
  • Relationships with banks.
  • Relationships with the tax authorities and social bodies.
  • Relationships with Mayors and Chambers of Commerce.

Asset management missions

  • Corporate and personal wealth organisation consulting services.
  • Investment advice.
  • Pension contracts (Special French contracts: Madelin Law, Article 83...),
  • Income tax optimisation.

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