28 | Acquisition International, Worldwide Finance Awards 2023 Best Accounting Firm 2023 - Sierra Leone Based in Sierra Leone, VERITAS Professional Services is a progressive firm of chartered accountants offering a full range of cost-efficient, high-quality services to local and international organisations. The firm is committed to providing reliable solutions to the businesses it serves through an unwavering commitment to excellence, client satisfaction, and efficient operations. Contact: Claudius Williams-Tucker Company: VERITAS Professional Services Web Address: www.veritas-sl.com Striving to help companies achieve their ambitions, VERITAS provides clients with customised, industry-focused strategies that encompass three main functions: audits, tax, and advisory services. It works to deliver solutions that will enhance their competitive advantage and enable them to succeed. To do this, it produces comprehensive and valuable answers to their business requirements. The professional services industry is known for its low quality of service, lack of basic support, and impersonal service provision. VERITAS therefore aims to stand out in its field by providing intrinsic value through innovative service offerings and demonstrating commitment to the satisfaction of its clients. Its ultimate goal is to become the top local accounting firm in Sierra Leone and the partner of choice for transforming businesses for the better. When they choose to work with VERITAS, clients can trust that they will receive a highquality service that is seamless, efficient, and continuously improving. The firm is always adapting its offerings to suit the changing priorities and risks of its clients’ businesses. VERITAS is committed to delivering in-depth expertise to its clients. The firm has built an excellent team of staff that consists of people with diverse qualifications and strong technical, industry, and leadership skills. They are all knowledgeable, experienced, and capable of utilising all the necessary resources to help clients succeed. Backed by a wealth of previous experience, VERITAS is often able to deliver quicker results to clients, having dealt with similar projects in the past. Its team aim to use their knowledge in combination with an advanced understanding of the client’s needs to add value to its services for their benefit. Importantly, the VERITAS team are subject to stringent codes of conduct with regards to confidentiality and independence. They must maintain integrity by protecting the interests of clients and adhering to the highest levels of professionalism at all times. At VERITAS, staff are also expected to deliver excellence in each and every task they take on, consistently exceeding expectations and producing outstanding results. Each task is allocated to a partner, who reviews the completed work in order to maintain control over the quality of the firm’s services. VERITAS instils a culture of respect and trust amongst all staff, ensuring that employees are willing to take accountability for their work and actions. In order to support its team to be the best they can possibly be, VERITAS invests in the training and development of the talented individuals it hires. The firm is proud to have created a team with diverse abilities that should be nurtured and developed. Each member brings something unique to the table. It encourages collaboration and discussion amongst staff, which often leads to the co-creation of better solutions and the development of innovative ideas. In recent years, the financial industry in Sierra Leone and across the world has faced many challenges, particularly due to the Covid-19 pandemic. To overcome the obstacles it has faced during this time, VERITAS has fully digitised its operations to scale and lower the cost of its operations and improve the time taken to complete assignments. This transformation has enabled the firm to get twice the amount of work done in the past year, leading to doubled revenue as of the end of June 2023. VERITAS is thrilled to have recently entered into a technical cooperation agreement with Ernst & Young, involving their collaboration in the provision of professional services and the representation of its interests in Sierra Leone. As part of this, VERITAS works closely with the Ernst & Young branch in Ghana. As a result of its continued excellence, VERITAS has been awarded Best Accounting Firm, Sierra Leone, in the Worldwide Finance Awards 2023. We congratulate the firm on this achievement and look forward to seeing what it goes on to accomplish in the future.
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