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Corporate Advisory Services

Corporate Advisory Services

Corporate Counselling:

We provide valuable insights into structuring and strategy options with a view to enhance the value of enterprise. Our extensive experience with various corporate and industries facilitate provision of such services. We are focused and relationship-driven while maintaining highest standards of independence, objectivity and confidentiality. Every problem is addressed with an independent and unbiased approach.

We have a dedicated team of multi-disciplinary, experienced professionals who offer a range of services designed to meet the varying needs of our clients.

The services offered by us include :

  • Preparation of techno-economic viability report
  • Syndication of project financing
  • Loan syndications
  • Project collaborations
  • Project evaluation & rating
  • Capital structuring
  • Mergers, demergers, acquisitions
  • Organization & management studies
  • Job evaluation & manpower assessment
  • Corporate reorganization
  • Designing of costing, financial & budgetary control systems
  • Designing of multi-level MIS
  • Designing of budgeting systems
  • Designing of financial accounting and costing manuals
  • Designing of standard operating procedures and manuals
  • Managerial recruitment
  • Evaluation & designing of operational systems
  • Working Capital Management
  • Financial Accounting, Budget, operational & MIS manuals
  • Corporate Reorganisation
  • Recruitment Planning & Implementation
  • Performance Appraisal
  • Payroll Consultancy
  • Job Evaluation
  • Share valuation and business valuation

Corporate Secretarial Services:

With myriad of responsibilities to the board, the company and the shareholder, a Secretarial team fulfills a challenging and complex function within a constantly changing legislative and regulatory environment using a specialist team of highly qualified Company Secretarial experts to offer support and advice that will help ensure that your obligations are met timely in a cost effective manner. We offers a wide range of Company Secretarial Services that can be tailored to suit your requirements.

Our service includes the following:

Advice and Assistance:

  • Company/LLP/OPC formations
  • Name changes
  • Company dissolutions and strike offs

Fully outsourced services:

  • Management of Annual General Meetings/ Board/ Committee Meetings
  • Preparation, attending and recording of minutes for board or committee meetings
  • Preparation of Agenda Papers, Notices & drafting of Minutes of meetings
  • Routine and non-routine company secretarial services for public, private and other type of companies
  • Maintenance of statutory registers
  • Filing of annual returns and accounts
  • Preparation and filing of forms relating to changes in directors etc

Other Services:

  • Change in registered Office
  • Extension of Annual General Meetings
  • XBRL Filings of Financial Statement
  • Secretarial Due Diligence
  • Preparation of Share Certificates, share splits, transfers, etc.
  • Increase in Authorised Capital; Change of name; Change in object clause;
  • Registration of charges, search and status report
  • Issue of ESOP’s, Rights Issue, Private Placement as per Companies Act
  • Amendment in Articles of Association by incorporating clauses as mentioned in joint venture agreement/shareholder agreement

Secretarial Compliance Audits:

We conduct secretarial compliance audit for and on behalf of the corporates. It helps strengthen Corporate Governance in an organization and assists the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors on understanding status of secretarial compliances, internal control systems, and its effectiveness in the proper and transparent governance of the organization in relation to secretarial matters.

Financial Due Diligence:

Financial due diligence is a crucial part of any transaction. We at AJM have an established track record in this area. Our aim is to enable decision makers and entrepreneurs to make sound and confident investment decisions at every stage. We undertake due diligence activities in the following areas:

  • Organizational set up, reporting hierarchy and delegation of powers
  • Approvals and licenses
  • Corporate documentation and compliances
  • Compliances with other applicable statutes
  • Internal governance
  • Financial records and reporting
  • Major financial transactions and positions
  • Contingent liabilities
  • Long term capital commitments
  • Tangible risks and adequacy of insurance cover
  • Business risk management policy
  • Titles, rights, obligations, etc. relating to land, plant, property & equipment
  • Franchise / marketing / management agreements
  • Status of litigations by / against the entity, promoters and group concerns

Fixed Asset Management Service:

It is now mandatory for Companies to maintain Fixed Asset Registers containing certain vital information. The companies that are working in various locations and on legacy work platforms often need to incorporate this Register into the ERP platform to which they have recently migrated.


The challenge then is to ensure reconciliation with Books of Accounts, supported by tagging of all Fixed Assets and its proper recording. We have been offering this service to clients for several years which encompasses tracking of Fixed Assets for the purpose of financial accounting, asset maintenance and theft prevention as well as tracking of fixed assets for location, quantity, condition, maintenance and depreciation status.

The activities performed under Fixed Asset Management (FAM) include:

  • Achieving regulatory compliance applicable to the organization
  • Ascertainment of variance between books and physical verification
  • Identification of any ghost assets in the books of accounts
  • Ensuring accurate depreciation calculation for reporting purposes
  • Assistance in movement and disposal of asset in a proper manner
  • Assistance in performing dynamic inventory verification
  • Bar Coding of individual asset tags to significantly reduce the effort necessary for verification of inventories
  • Enable multiple concurrent inventories with centralized reconciliation
  • Ascertaining fair value of fixed assets that may reduce insurance/ tax costs
  • Tracks origin and destination of transferred assets. List transfer date, acquired values etc

Our expertise lies in FAM and our vast knowledge in this activity helps to provide ready solutions to our clientele in all sectors. Our PAN India presence, helps us to provide seamless quality service across India

Statutory Compliance Services:

We provide our clients with Compliance services on an all India level relating to statutory requirements in various labour and related laws. We also provide resources that comply far beyond the scope of traditional services. Our practice areas and full-service approach complement in providing our clients with a comprehensive strategy to identify long-term goals. By doing so, we are able to offer solutions to meet constantly evolving accounting, financial and management needs.


Compliance of Statutory requirements is a pre-requisite for an organization to survive and grow. Our aim is to provide robust compliance advice and pragmatic solutions for statutory compliance. We understand that risk management and good business practices need to be incorporated to enhance compliance. So, we assist our clients in establishing procedures that help them with the following:

  • Capture data and recording as per requirements of Accounting Standards
  • Comply with the provisions related to maintenance of Records.
  • Comply with Laws related to filing of Returns, Information, Taxes, Duties
  • Comply with the Listing provisions.
  • Comply with the specific Management requirements.
  • Labour Law Compliances including registration under Labour & Allied Laws

Financial & Business Re-structuring:

The ultimate aim of an organization is to bring value addition to Stakeholders. There are many hidden values, which are not reflected in Financial Statements. We provide our expertise, opinion and advice on how to restructure business activities to unlock hidden values. We have expertise in Mergers, Demergers & Acquisitions to the advantage of clients. Short & Long Term fund requirements are ascertained and best options are explored to meet the requirements. We assist our clients in analyzing business position of its stakeholders & support them in cash flow management, in developing the complex restructuring plan and negotiations concerning the conditions of financial restructuring.

Business Advisory Services:

From identifying the opportune entry routes in the industry to assisting in deal structuring and post set up services, we provide comprehensive support to the start-ups at all the stages of their business cycle.

  • Entry strategy:

    For planning and implementing an appropriate route for investing into India, we suggest, plan and implement entry strategy for your business by doing a SWOT analysis of the market/relevant industry and then evaluate alternative entry options to help you choose the best alternative.

  • Regulatory compliance:

    We provide assistance in processing various government clearances for our clients who wish to enter the Indian Market. We arrange for the complete set of approvals from the 'Reserve Bank of India' (RBI), ‘Secretariat of Industrial Assistance’ (SIA), ‘Foreign Investment Promotion Board’ (FIPB), ‘Registrar of Companies’ (ROC), ‘Foreign Contribution Regulation Authority’ (FCRA) and other related bodies.

  • Recruitment:

    We provide assistance in recruitment of managerial personnel for various levels.

IFRS, US & Indian GAAP Advisory Services:

We advise and assist our clients in respect of various aspects of their accounts for different GAAP. These services include:

  • Providing advice and assistance in conversion of Indian GAAP compliant accounts to IFRS or US GAAP
  • Reconciliation of Indian GAAP compliant accounts with accounts under IFRS or US GAAP
  • Providing advice and assistance to Indian companies in preparing for IFRS, which is to shortly become mandatory for Indian companies
  • Training of employees of companies on IFRS to enable them to understand the changes that would be required under IFRS, to smoothen the transition to IFRS Management Audit, Risk Advisory, MIS & ERP

Valuation Services:

Business Valuations are the centerpiece of our consultancy services. Estimating true and fair value is never straight forward and with rising complex structures, and regulators getting stringent, one cannot afford to settle for just anyone. Accounting Standards on Valuation have been issued by ICAI and International Accounting Standards on Valuation have been issued; compliance of which is mandatory w.e.f. 1.7.2020. We specialise in valuation services and our expertise in this domain, assists our clients in important financial decisions as under:

Transaction Advisory:

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Strategic Alliances
  • Promoter disputes and restructuring
  • Litigation Support

Accounting & Reporting:

  • Fairness Opinion
  • Purchase Price Allocation
  • Impairment Testing
  • ESOP Valuation

Regulatory Compliance:

  • FEMA Regulations
  • Taxation Laws
  • Companies Act
  • SEBI/ Capital Market Regulations
  • Liquidation Valuation

Enterprise Risk Management Services:

It is a compulsory requirement for the companies in India to have a risk management framework in place. Our philosophy is to bring focus of the client to their high priority risks, rather than building up an inventory of risks across all spheres.

Our focus on High Risks ensures that top Management can devote time to focus and monitor these risks, without infringing on their pursuit of business objectives. We conduct Risk analyses at every phase of a business process and corresponding risk factors envisaged are duly studied to generate Risk Mitigation Report. This helps our clients to minimize inevitable risks and have a backup plan ready to nullify those risks.

Implementation of Internal Financial Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR):

We help our clients in the implementation of Internal Financial Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) as per ICAI Guidance Note. Our services include:

  • SAP, Oracle & JDE process reviews
  • Review and Framing of 'IS' Policies, Procedures and Practices
  • Review of Physical & Logical Access Controls
  • Review of Maintenance
  • Business Process Re-Engineering reviews
  • Post Implementation reviews of Business Processes and Practices

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