Audit and compliance support

Why so many UAE companies face an audit request

A statutory audit reaches UAE businesses from several directions at once. DMCC, JAFZA and several other free zones ask for audited financial statements before a trade licence renews. A Qualifying Free Zone Person needs audited accounts to keep its 0% rate on qualifying income. Mainland companies increasingly meet the same request from a bank or a growth-stage investor. Finbryn prepares the file behind each of these; the audit itself, and the opinion on it, comes from a licensed UAE audit firm engaged separately.

Building on IFRS, not on a spreadsheet nobody can trace

Company regulations across the mainland and the free zones point to IFRS, with IFRS for SMEs as an option for smaller entities. We reconcile every bank, card and control account to its statement, then build schedules for accruals, prepayments, fixed assets and intercompany balances that tie directly to the trial balance an auditor, or an FTA reviewer looking at a Corporate Tax return, will open first.

Keeping the qualifying-income split honest

A free zone entity relying on the 0% Qualifying Free Zone Person rate has to show its qualifying income separately from anything earned on the mainland, backed by adequate substance. We hold that split inside the chart of accounts as transactions post, rather than reverse-engineering it from bank statements once a reviewer asks.

Economic Substance and UBO sit in the same file

A company carrying out a Relevant Activity still owes an Economic Substance notification and, where income was earned, a report; every UAE company keeps its Ultimate Beneficial Owner register current. We build both into the same audit-readiness folder, so one organised set of records answers a lender, an investor and an auditor rather than three separate scrambles.

For groups that stretch across the Gulf

Many founders we work with hold a Dubai or Abu Dhabi entity alongside operations, or a US or UK parent, elsewhere in the region. Qatar and Kuwait have not introduced VAT; Oman and Bahrain each apply their own VAT regime at a different rate from the UAE's. Where a structure spans more than one Gulf jurisdiction, we keep the UAE entity's file consistent with what its own auditor and regulator expect, and flag anything a sister entity needs from a local specialist.

Who you contract with

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Getting started

Most companies see the biggest benefit starting two to three months before fieldwork or a licence renewal date. See pricing for how an audit-readiness engagement is scoped, or book a call to talk through your timeline.