Who We Are?

We are Gujarat (India) based Chartered Accountancy firm serving various wings of business environment like accounting, assurance, corporate finance and taxation. We started our journey in 2004 by establishing partnership firm name “Chauhan Rai & Shah- Chartered Accountants” at Rajkot. We grew from a small sized audit firm to full fledge advisory service provider in various domains. In late 2020 we changed our name to KTPB & Co. -Chartered Accountants from “Chauhan Rai & Shah – Chartered Accountants”. A journey started from servicing small and medium sized clients saw many camping and now it has reached to serving large corporate groups in various domains.

In the era of rapid changing economic and industrial scenario, the role of accounting and auditing profession has become one with immense importance. The plethora of services rendered by the chartered accountancy firm now a days are remarkably sizable as compared with earlier time. We bring with us high standards of professional ethics and integrity in execution of services being rendered by us.

What We Do?

Auditing and Assurance

  • Statutory Audit
  • Revenue Audit
  • EDP Audit
  • Management Audit
  • Internal Control System
  • Restatement of accounts
  • Quick impact assessment / end to end implementation of IND-AS

Tax and Regulatory Services

  • Direct / Indirect Tax (Compliance)
  • Direct / Indirect Tax (Advisory)
  • Direct / Indirect Tax (Litigations)
  • Non-Resident Indian tax advisory and compliances
  • Foreign Taxation
  • RERA complete compliance

Corporate Finance Advisory

  • Analysing and assessing need for funds – long term as well as working capital
  • IPO advisory
  • Liasoning with bankers / private equity funds / VC fund
  • Export-Import financing
  • Bill Discounting
  • Government incentives advisory
  • Capital Restructuring
  • Stressed asset funding

Company Law Matters

  • Formation of Companies
  • Complying with the Company Law procedures pertaining thereto
  • Day to day compliance of corporate laws and procedures thereof
  • Handling litigations with regards to Corporate Laws

Transaction Advisory Services

  • Advisory services for Merger – Acquisition- Joint Venture
  • Business Valuation
  • Transfer Pricing
  • IND As adoption
  • Business Valuation
  • ERP Implementation

Virtual CFO

  • From a complete business process outsourcing to single process outsourcing
  • Data maintenance, data recording, data management
  • Technology up gradation advisory
  • Production Efficiency analysis
  • Resource Allocation planning

Little More

We undertake the work relating to Business restructuring, capacity building, due diligence and specific problem-solving assignments of the business houses.

We have worked as a counsellor for The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI) an NGO for their project named EDI- EU PERKS (Project for Economic Regeneration of Kutch & Saurashtra) in which European Union countries were involved.

We have tied up with leading E.R.P. solution providers to provide customized accounting software to our clients.

We have specialized in re-engineering business processes to provide production and operating efficiency.

We have set up separate division for research and development to keep our clients updated regarding changes in laws and regulations specifically applicable to them.

We arrange for production accounting system to manage production process and smooth material handling.

We keep watch on all government schemes and policies to provide our clients maximum benefit of various schemes.

We provide customized outsourcing service where you can opt for any of above-mentioned services under one single package.

We are working closely with all major public / private banks for high ticket size debt funding.

We are associated with major PE / VC funds to cater need of corporate funding.

Instead of all partners working in all domains we have developed specialisation philosophy. All partners are working to excel their domain expertise and we provide excellent outcome with team working.

We have team of domain experts having decades of experience in various domains as our associate members.

Core Team

We have a dedicated team of more than 30 persons with professional acumen and highest level of integrity standards. Over a period of our journey, we have built an excellent network of the highest levels of professional experts in various fields like tax litigations, finance consultancy, legal- corporate framework advisory, dispute resolution, valuation, inbound and outbound investments and FEMA compliances.

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CA Bhavesh Shah: (In Practice since 1999)

CA Bhavesh Shah, Founder Partner of the Firm, has more than 20 years’ experience in rendering Audit –Taxation and Financial Advisory services. He has handled various assignments of Statutory Audits of Banks and Corporates. He regularly appears before the tax authorities – (both direct and indirect) up to the Tribunal Level. He is ISA qualified partner of the firm. He has been involved in managing banks’ statutory compliance as well as due diligence consultancy. He has successfully set up Value driven firm in the form of “Chauhan Rai & Shah”. He has also served ICAI Rajkot Branch as committee member for four years and was selected as Vice Chairman of the branch. He has a vast experience of project financing and strategic alliances for fund requirements. He has successfully completed liasoning for large scale funding projects.

CA Kartik Pandya: (In Practice since 2014)

CA Kartik Pandya is working in the field of concurrent as well as various audits of Banks for more than 12 years. He has worked with ICICI Bank Ltd for 7 years and left as Compliance Manager. His domain of expertise is banking as well as statutory compliance of various forms of business. He is active in providing internal control advisory services to our clients. He manages audit assignments of various entities including advisory services for VAT, TDS, Service Tax and recently in GST since inception of GST for various entities.

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CA Payal Shah: (In practice since 2019)

CA Payal Shah is in practice since 2019. She is in association with the firm since 2006. She is managing issues related to Indirect Tax for the domestic industry as well as for International Entities and NRIs. CA Payal Shah is highly active in providing advisory services for issues related to International Taxation. Along with this she very well manages financial advisory to our clients.

CA Tarun Shah: (In practice since 2015)

CA Tarun Shah is the young and energetic partner of firm. He is active in project finance consultancy as well as SME IPO advisory. His domain of expertise is finance as well as ERP implementation consultancy. He renders services for developing and implementing Management Information System in SMEs and Corporate. He manages subsidy and government schemes consultation to clients. He also caters valuation services to various client. Ca Tarun Shah is certified business valuer. Virtual CFO services division of firm is being headed by CA Tarun Shah.

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Mr. Nilesh Akhani: (In practice since 2008)

Mr. Nilesh Akhani is a Commerce Graduate and C.A Intermediate having a long standing experience of more than 3 decades in the field of Accounting- Taxation and Audits with M/s . M.J. Rindani & Associates — a very well known and reputed firm of Chartered Accountants in the region. He has been associated with the firm since last 15 years and looks after the Offshore accounting assignments and foreign clients tax advisory. He has been instrumental in setting up the offshore accounting and foreign clientele. He is highly skilled at managerial level and a very good leader who knows how to get the deliverables in time.

How can we support you?

Strategic Support

  • Reviewing government policies / incentives
  • Macro Economical factors analysis
  • Sustainability Advisory
  • Capital Structuring Advisory

Managerial Support

  • Developing SoPs and work flow systematisation
  • Effective MIS development
  • Management advisory for budgeting and review
  • Review and Monitoring Mechanism

Operational Support

  • Outsourcing of major processes like accounting, payroll
  • Need / Impact analysis of daily process
  • Sustainability Advisory
  • Capital Structuring Advisory

Sectors We Served

  • Banking

  • Information Tech.

  • Pharma

  • Agriculture

  • Real Estate

  • Infrastructure

  • Marine

  • FMCG

  • NBFC

  • E- Commerce

  • Leisure-Tourism

  • Co-Operative Sector

  • Packaging

  • Movie Industry