UAE Accounting, Bookkeeping & Audit

Books that hold up to the FTA, auditors and banks

UAE accounting was a light-touch, back-office function for most of the last decade. The introduction of Corporate Tax in 2023 changed that: the Federal Tax Authority now expects audit-ready records as standard, a Qualifying Free Zone Personmust hold audited financial statements to keep its 0%, and UAE banks have tightened the documentation they want for ongoing KYC. The bar for what “good books” look like has risen.

Most businesses still buy accounting, tax and audit from three different suppliers — which is where the gaps appear: books that do not support the return, a free-zone 0% claim with no audit behind it, management accounts nobody can reconcile to the statutory ones. Avyanco is a Chartered-Accountant-led firm that keeps all of it under one roof, so a single set of records serves your board, the FTA, the auditor and your bank.

Every service below gives you the essentials, then links to the dedicated page that covers it in full. If you would rather just hand it over, use the form on the right for a free review of your books, audit obligation and reporting.

Accounting & audit services we provide

Every service links to its own detailed page with the full process, standard, timeline and cost.

Accounting & bookkeeping

We keep your accounts on IFRS or IFRS for SMEs every month — not reconstructed at year-end. That means posted transactions, reconciled banks, a maintained fixed-asset register and a trial balance that ties out, so your VAT and Corporate Tax returns are filed from the same records an auditor will later test. Clean monthly books are the single biggest factor in a fast, low-friction audit.

Full detail, packages and onboarding: accounting & bookkeeping in Dubai.

Management accounts & outsourced CFO

Beyond compliance, you need numbers you can run the business on. We produce monthly management accounts, board packs, cash-flow forecasts, budgets and KPI dashboards on a fixed cadence — and, where you do not yet need a full-time hire, a fractional CFO for reporting, fundraising readiness and lender conversations. It is the standard model for founders scaling without an in-house finance team.

See outsourced CFO services.

Payroll & WPS

We run salary processing and submit through the Wage Protection System (WPS) via MOHRE, handle end-of-service gratuity calculations and keep payroll feeding straight into the books — so wages, benefits and accruals are captured correctly for both the accounts and the Corporate Tax position. Full detail: payroll & WPS compliance.

Statutory & external audit

A qualifying free zone person must hold audited financial statements, as must any business with revenue above AED 50 million (Ministerial Decision No. 84 of 2025). Many free zones also require them for licence renewal, and lenders and parent groups expect them. Avyanco Auditing is registered with the UAE Ministry of Economy and on the major free zone panels — DIFC, ADGM, DMCC and JAFZA — so we run the workpapers, draft the IFRS financial statements and sign the audit opinion in our own name, under the International Standards on Auditing.

Overview: audit & assurance; the independent statutory opinion: external audit.

Internal audit

Where the statutory audit gives shareholders an opinion once a year, internal audit gives the board ongoing assurance over internal controls, governance and risk. We run risk-based internal audit on the IIA’s International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF) — reviewing processes, testing controls, and reporting to the board or audit committee with practical fixes. See internal audit.

How accounting ties into tax

UAE Corporate Tax is computed from your IFRS financial statements, so the books and the return cannot sensibly sit with different providers. We position bookkeeping for the Corporate Tax computation from day one — qualifying-income segmentation for QFZP, related-party identification for transfer pricing, and exempt-income tracking — and file the returns from the same records.

For the full tax picture — Corporate Tax, VAT, transfer pricing and compliance — see the tax advisory hub and corporate tax advisory.

Pricing & timelines

Indicative professional service fees. We quote every engagement in writing with professional fees and estimated government charges shown separately, so you can see exactly what you are paying for.

External valuations, third-party costs and government charges are additional and vary by case. Audit thresholds, accounting frameworks and Corporate Tax rules are set by the Ministry of Economy, the FTA and the IASB and change over time — confirm your position with us before acting.