The numbers behind Timor-Leste's best-run businesses

One of the largest donors operating in Timor-Leste engaged us to audit eighteen of its local partner organisations. We applied a single, donor-grade standard across all eighteen, giving the funder the assurance it needed and giving each partner an honest, useful read of its own finances. Holding that many audits to one consistent standard is precisely the kind of work we are built for.

We were appointed to audit one of the country's most important public bodies in the telecommunications sector. An institution of that significance demands both rigour and discretion in equal measure. We delivered a clean, defensible audit that stakeholders could stand behind, on infrastructure that matters to the connectivity of the whole nation.

A leading Timorese NGO wanted to bring its accounting in-house and run it properly. We implemented QuickBooks and trained their team until they could manage it with real confidence, so their finance function could keep pace with their mission. Today they run their own books cleanly, with us a phone call away rather than in the driver's seat.

An Australian company wanted to establish itself in Timor-Leste without the usual false starts. We handled the registration from end to end, set up the entity and its tax registrations correctly from day one, and gave them straight local guidance along the way. They began operating compliant and on schedule.

A renewable energy company awarded a multi-billion-dollar contract in Timor-Leste's power sector needed its books kept clean from the very first transaction. We took on the full bookkeeping function, building the ledger, reconciling continuously and keeping the records investor and audit ready as the project scaled. On a contract of that magnitude, disciplined books from day one are not a nicety; they are the foundation everything else is checked against.

A Timorese financial services provider needed an independent, credible valuation of its shares. We built it on defensible numbers and clearly stated assumptions, giving their board and stakeholders a figure they could rely on for the decision in front of them. A valuation is only as good as the reasoning behind it, and ours was made to be questioned and to hold.

A contractor delivering part of one of Timor-Leste's largest shipyard developments came to us for advice on a complex, high-value project. We helped structure their tax position across the build, so withholding, compliance and planning were handled in advance rather than untangled later. On a project of that scale, getting the tax right early is worth a great deal.