POLARAT
OUR FIRM BACKGROUND/FIRM HISTORY:
As of 2002, our lead/main associate, began his professional career performing various roles such as external auditor, internal auditor, tax consultant, internal control.
Additionally, our lead associate is a Certified Public Accountant, CPA, and Auditor, and has several postgraduate studies, such as: Master of Business Administration, MBA, with specialization in finance and banking from Universidad Internaciones de Guatemala, an International Master on Audit and Business Management, MIAGE, from the University of the Atlantic in Spain, as well as a Master in Financial Administration, MBF, from Universidad Panamericana de Guatemala.
Moreover, we have provided services to our clients while bringing together the right associates into the firm, thus POLARAT, was created in 2018, comprising auditors, tax consultants, finance experts, systems engineers, among others, aiming at providing the needed value to the clients requesting our services.
PHILOSOPHY
The fundamental cornerstones of our firm activities are independence, ethics, and the appropriate personnel for the implementation of good practices. Therefore our core values include:
VISION
Position ourselves as an audit firm that offers and executes quality services to its clients in order to achieve the value they require while contributing to the desired growth based on our experience.
MISION
Work as a team, while each associate is able to contribute with their own experience, in order to deliver high quality services to our clients.
OUR SERVICES: AUDITS, CONSULTING, AND TAXES.
Taxes
- Fiscal Planning,
- Transfer Pricing Study,
- Qualification and monitoring to comply with specific taxation systems –Decree 29-89, Free Zone Decree 65-89, Maquila Regulations, among others.
- Current Account Management, and Import and Export Decree 29-89 tax management.
Consulting
- Internal control assessment
- Balanced Scorecard
- EVA, Budgets
- Business Risks Assessments
- Business Plan Development
- Cost Reduction Strategy.
Enterprise Solutions
- Financial Due Diligence,
- ERP implementation,
- Compliance Training, IFRS, IFRS for SMEs and Fiscal,
- Compilations of Financial Statements.
EXPERIENCE
PLACES WHERE WE HAVE AUDITED
Through our firm associate’s expertise, we have supported companies located in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Cancún, and Madrid, among others, providing individual and consolidated financial statements audits, as well as fiscal reviews, consultancies, among other services.
17
Years
Average in years of experience in the middle for each professional
4+
Degrees
Academic degrees, certifications or masters for each professional
12
Countries
In our experience we have supported companies in different countries
20+
Sectors
In the professional practice we have attended companies from many sectors
COVERED SECTORS
The companies with whom we have worked along our professional practice can be included in the following sectors: services, marketers, distribution centers, general storage warehouses, credit unions, catalog sales, trusts, schools, foundations, social clubs, road concessions, and industries, among which we can mention wheat and cereals, through the production of wheat and corn flours, pasta, cookies, palm oil and derivatives, dairy products, fine wood products, among others.
As well as government projects financed with loan and donation resources obtained from international organizations, such as USAID, World Bank, IDB, Helvetas, FDLG, European Union, among others.
CONTACT US
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