Arvind V. Magan is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Registered Auditor since 1992, who has extensive business experience in the Auditing, Accounting, Finance and Management sectors.

Upon the completion of his articles at Ernst & Young, he was appointed as a Supervisor. He also held the position of Professional Assistant/ Audit Manager at MSGM Masuku Jeena Inc. (now PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc.) for four years prior to establishing Arvind Magan & Associates in 2003.

Arvind V Magan accolades and achievements include:

• Chairman of Joseph Business School
• Nominated for KZN’s Top Business Leader
• We take responsibility for fulfilling our commitments to our clients with a clear understanding of mutual success accountability.

Our Services

• Assurance provides assurance to clients on their financial performance and operations, as well as helping our clients improve their external financial reporting.
• Tax assists clients in complying with tax-related legislation and regulations.
• Advisory as targets increase so do risks, we help your business to make and sustain improvements, while responding more quickly to change.
• Transactions we offer integrated, objective advisory services that are designed to help your evaluate opportunities, execute your transactions more efficiently and achieve your strategic goals.

What We Bring To Your Business

• Deep Understanding
We work closely with you to gain a deep insight into your business and take time to fully understand your company’s issues, objectives, strengths and vulnerabilities.

• Knowledge
We are dedicated to improving performance through benchmarking, networking and leading practice. We seek to identify issues before they become problems.

• Insights & Proven Practices
We combine fresh thinking with global method- ologies, tools and proven practices. This means that you benefit from our ideas and insights delivered through quality service.

• Flexibility
The way we work allows us to help you respond swiftly to the challenges you face. We tackle your issues with energy and enthusiasm, helping you achieve your potential.

• Integrity
We act with integrity, have mutual respect and are open and honest in everything we do.

Advisory Services
Advisory services focus on three main areas: Growth, Governance and Performance. We will work closely with you as you restructure and expand, either organically or through acquisitions. We aim to help you improve efficiency and provide support as you adapt to demanding regulatory environments. Our core skills are to be found in these areas and it is here that we can assure you quality of service.

Our Accounting Advisory professionals work with our clients to help them achieve accounting compliance, provide advice on how they might organise their financial reporting processes and ensure that accounting operations match the objectives of the business. This applies to both the private and public sectors.

Accounting Support Services can supplement an organisations in-house accounting knowledge to address short to medium term resource constraints. This enables our clients to focus their attention on addressing more pressing or non-routine issues.

Audit Services
Our audit process enables our professionals to consider the unique elements of the entity whose financial statements are being audited - its culture, the motivations of management, the industry in which it competes, competitive pressures, and the risks inherent within those elements.

We share our clients’ objectives of credibility and transparency in financial reporting. Each of our professionals is committed to delivering reliable, independent audit reports. Fulfilling this commitment to maintain high audit quality requires vigilance in making sure our audit complies with changing regulations and the professional standards of South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. Audit services include Financial Statement Audit, Financial Statement Review & Compilation and Internal Control over Financial Reporting.

Business Tax Services
Our Business Tax services are designed to meet your business tax compliance and advisory needs, wherever in the world you’re located. Our tax professionals draw on their diverse perspectives and skills to give you a seamless global service.

Our talented people, consistent global method- ologies and unwavering commitment to quality service will help you build the strong compliance and reporting foundations and sustainable tax strategies that help your business achieve its ambitions.

Personal Tax Services
Our Personal Tax Services practice offers an integrated approach to providing coordinated financial wealth management assistance to high- net-worth individuals whether domestic or cross- border.

With dedicated resources in major markets around the world, our talented people, proven methodologies and in-depth knowledge help you to effectively manage your requirements. We have experience working with individuals and companies of many sizes across all aspects of the tax life cycle - planning, provision, compliance and controversy.

Our approach provides professionally prepared returns, related calculations and advice, as well as integrated tax planning.

Tax Performance Advisory
Globalisation, regulation, corporate governance, increased transparency, limited resource pools and shorter financial close cycles are just some of the factors facing corporate tax leaders today. With these challenges here to stay, your tax function needs to effectively manage these competing responsibilities and stakeholders while delivering enhanced performance not just in the tax department but across the wider business as well.

Forensic Accounting
Our Company specialises in Forensic Investigations and Dispute Services. We offer a complete spectrum of forensics services, with a degree of excellence that is second to none.

As a discipline, forensic services have become indispensable in ensuring that complex and high value criminal cases are thoroughly investigated and that the appropriate evidence is presented to the court by an expert in an understandable manner. Our investigations include, inter alia, securing available evidence, conducting interviews with witnesses and analysing accounting data.