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Accounting, audit and financial advisory

A project company that investors and lenders can read: audited, controlled and costed from the first year.

Also covers: statutory and internal audit, financial reporting, cost and management accounting, financial controls, cost optimisation

What the project needs

The project company needs statutory and internal audit, financial accounting and reporting, cost and management accounting, financial controls and governance, and financial due diligence support as partners and lenders come in.

It also needs cost assurance across the build: cost accounting that ties the engineering estimate to the accounts, and performance reporting that the board, the consortium and the State can rely on. Paid advisory roles are selected by competitive proposal.

Who it suits

Organisations such as:

  • Chartered accountant firms, statutory and internal auditors
  • Cost and management accountants
  • Financial reporting, controls and governance advisers
  • Financial due diligence and transaction support teams
  • Outsourced finance and CFO services

How it connects to the campus

Legal and tax advisers is appointed alongside, on tax and company matters.
Project, programme and cost management shares the cost estimate and cost assurance.
Strategy and market advisory feeds the business case with audited numbers.
Independent engineers works beside the lenders' engineer in due diligence.

What to show

At registration, tell us about up to three comparable assignments, completed or in operation, with the year, location, your role, the scale in the measure that fits your discipline, the status and a way to verify it. Newer specialist firms are welcome to present documented pilots and the founding team's record, clearly labelled.

Firm registration and peer review status, infrastructure or project company audit references, cost audit and Ind AS experience, team and office in Tamil Nadu, independence and conflicts.

How to take part

  1. Register your interest

    Tell us about your organisation and your area of interest.

  2. A conversation

    We will arrange a confidential discussion to explore fit and opportunities.

  3. The data room

    Partners will be invited to a data room as discussions progress.

As discussions progress, partners receive, through the data room, the terms of reference or the engagement outline for their role.