• Create. Protect. Transform.

Changing the value game. N.A.R.S. Advisory Services professionals are progressive thinkers who create, protect and transform value today so our clients have the opportunity to thrive tomorrow. While business goals and strategies evolve, our services support you wherever you are in your business cycle — whether you’re looking at a transaction to propel you forward, focusing on developing and implementing the right controls to mitigate risk, or advancing your company’s finance and technology infrastructure to match your aspirations.

We are changing the value game for clients. Our mission is to help you create value for your organization, protect its value against unnecessary business risks and transform your business value through operations and technology investment. To have maximum impact on your business at any stage, Advisory Services delivers the following value to you from four key interconnected business areas:

Business consulting & technology Fine-tune your organization for optimal performance through financial management, operations transformation, strategy, digital transformation and management, and technology solutions.

Business risk services Identify, manage and mitigate risk through controls, regulatory compliance, forensics, cyber and attest services.
Enterprise technology strategy & innovation Integrate technology, products and services to create customer value through enterprise technology strategy, advanced technology and digital solutions, IT service management, strategic sourcing and technology resource effectiveness. Supporting CIOs to help them overcome their greatest challenges and achieve their highest goals.

Transaction services Open new horizons for competitive advantages and business profitability through diligence, corporate value consulting, strategic solutions and M&A tax consulting services.

How we look “Beyond market boundaries”

Event-driven or reactive services – For Instance: Misconduct by  employees  resulting in occupational fraud

Proactive services – For Instance: Assessment of Fraud Vulnerabilities for specific high-risk areas or processes

Client spending is non-discretionary – For Instance: Increased  regulatory enforcement

Develop standard questionnaire for specific enquires for the clients – For Instance: Develop a supply chain vendor review questionnaire vs. questionnaire specific to understanding business operation and promoter details

How we create “value for you”

Know your business relation

• Corporate Intelligence: Invest before investing in a business relation by performing corporate intelligence procedures and obtain key, actionable data to assess the reputation and track record of business or senior management/board of directors or individuals or their related entities
• On Field Market Intelligence: Collection of information and data from an on-site inspection to independently corroborate the facts and images provided by the business partners. In addition, information with respect to place, size and scale of operation of business, number of employees and other relevant data may be collected through on-site inspections and proof
• Asset Tracing: We are able to assist you and your counsel in arbitration as well as court proceedings by identifying assets of the counter party that may be at risk of disposition while the matter is sub-judice

Develop Compliance Framework

• Regulatory Compliance Framework: It is the obligation of every Corporation doing business in India to abide by the jurisprudence of the state. The Corporate should be cognizant of all the compliance related provisions and processes under various legislation such as Companies Act, RBI Guidelines, and others
• Anti-Fraud Programs: Anti-fraud Programs helps organizations  avert fraud related event and safeguard against business critical processes/areas. A strong fraud risk approach can assist commercial enterprises derive competitive advantage
• Brand Protection: We assist our clients in understanding the size and extent of the counterfeiting problem and provide assistance in designing appropriate counter strategies by identifying key players involved in the distribution and sale of counterfeits
• Periodic Compliance Review: Companies can adopt the policy to monitor action through periodic compliance review in a  high-corruption risk areas such as:
  • Companies periodically conduct compliance audits, ethics dip stick and anti-corruption assessments for their business partners; and
  • The rights to audit and review books and records of business partners/alliances helps companies bring actions/serve relation in case of any statutory violations or breach of conditions of business agreements

Anti-bribery Measures

• Bribery Risk Assessment: To acquire and carry out a robust and comprehensive anti-corruption strategy, organizations conduct a comprehensive bribery risk assessment to assess existing anti-bribery framework, and build up an anti-bribery implementation plan to establish governance structures
• Anti-bribery Due Diligence: For an enhanced review of any ‘red flags’ indicating that violations of  anti-corruption and bribery legislations, the organization conducts due diligence on third party business partners in line with the regulatory demands of due diligence provisions according to the anti-bribery legal and regulatory drivers
  Informal/formal interviews with management of potential business partners on many occasions reveal the practices of corrupt means followed to engage in business activities.

Monitor Actions and Resolve Disputes

• Corporate Investigation: Backed by a dedicated forensic technology and intelligence team, we are able to offer end to end solutions to meet the needs of our clients. In internal investigation, we assist our clients at every stage of investigation – from the time of identification of an issue (through a whistle-blower or otherwise) to assistance in taking corrective actions. Similarly, in external investigations, we use our dedicated field intelligence team to obtain actionable intelligence that supports and informs our investigation and focus on core issues
• Forensic Technology Assistance: We help businesses find information, fraud related or incriminating evidence from the digital media based on market accredited E-discovery extraction tools. In addition, we also perform data analytics to identify, analyze and present the data in a heuristic analysis of chain of events related to the fraud
  Our team has vast experience in conducting computer forensic, E-discovery and data analytics to meet the requirement of our clients from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives.
• Dispute Resolution Mechanism: Companies can develop strategies prior to investments as easily as in the case of a conflict. The smallest step can be taken today:
  • Clear arbitration clause may help business partners handle disputes in a way which is not prejudicial to the business interest of all the parties
  • Prior agreement on the issues and assumptions that can be a basis of disputes; and
  • Inclusion of a detailed arbitration clause in contracts based on independent expert opinion from a mutually appointed expert