One senior practitioner for IFRS, ZATCA Phase 2, UAE Corporate Tax, and the decisions in between. Fixed scope. Fixed fee. Forty-eight hours to a quote.
Eight years inside PwC and EY produced a clear observation: the middle of the MENA finance market is under-served. The Big Four are priced for large listed groups. Mid-tier firms are priced for compliance minima. Operators in between are over-billed when they buy the Big Four and under-supported when they don't. This is the practice that sits in that gap.
Every engagement is scoped to a defined outcome and priced on a fixed fee. You know what you are getting, when it will be ready, and what it will cost — before the work begins. Where the work requires an attest signature the practice does not hold, you will hear that before you sign.
The core work. Producing, reviewing, and defending financial positions under IFRS and SOCPA — the work the Big Four charges the most for.
Standalone or consolidated IFRS statements — or IFRS for SMEs — including first-time adoption and restatement. Formula-driven TB → Notes → FS linkage, delivered with the working file so your team can maintain it.
Independent opinion on one contested position — IFRS 15, 16, 9, IAS 37, consolidation — with a documented memo, paragraph references, supporting workpapers, and an IAS 8 disclosure draft. Two weeks.
Four-week sprint: PBC discipline, reconciliations, documented positions, disclosure drafts. The audit opens on a file that is already clean — the opening letter estimate moves by weeks.
The regulatory work that has a calendar attached. ZATCA Phase 2, UAE Corporate Tax, and KSA transfer pricing — priced for the middle market, delivered against the actual deadline.
Wave 24 (SAR 375k threshold, go-live 30 June 2026) or Wave 23 remediation. Scoping, ZATCA-certified vendor selection, CSID onboarding, sandbox tests, parallel run, cutover. No middleware up-sell; no ERP migration in disguise.
FY24 amendments, FY25 planning, and the Small Business Relief vs QFZP decision memo — with the IFRS-for-SME book rebuilt where needed and related-party disclosure discipline documented. One entity or group.
Controlled Transactions Disclosure Form, Master File and Local File — aligned to the SAR 48M and SAR 100M Zakat-payer thresholds. Benchmarking, functional analysis, and the auditor affidavit package where required.
The work that gets made into a decision. Investment cases, pre-IPO diagnostics, and quality of earnings — written in the register that funders, boards, and audit committees actually respond to.
The merged deliverable that replaces the feasibility-then-proposal shuffle: market sizing, unit economics, NPV and IRR, sensitivity analysis, governance, risk register, and a written go/no-go recommendation. 25–40 pages, one defensible answer.
For SAR 30–80M SMEs with 12–24 months to a Nomu listing. IFRS, governance, MIS, and disclosure-readiness gap — documented with a remediation runway. Not a substitute for a CMA-licensed financial adviser; the bridge that gets you ready to hire one.
Five to fifteen days, depending on scope. Normalised EBITDA bridge, working-capital analysis, debt-like items, revenue quality. Written for corporate buyers, not priced for megadeals. SAR 10–100M transaction range.
For operators who need a senior finance voice on an ongoing basis — and for mid-tier audit firms that need a technical specialist for one engagement without adding headcount.
For SMEs and startups without a full-time controller: month-end close review, IFRS policy memos, board-pack discipline, and the senior presence investors expect on the finance function. Twenty to forty hours per month — not outsourced bookkeeping.
For mid-tier KSA audit firms with IFRS 15/16 construction exposure and no technical bench to match it. Workpapers delivered in your file format, under your signature. Day rate or fixed per engagement. Confidentiality as standard.
Two representative engagements, anonymised. Every Daftar engagement results in a working file you own outright — no lock-in, no dependency, no "call us for the next version."
Client's original lease model had understated the ROU asset by approximately 11%, driven by inconsistent discount-rate application across equipment leases. Rebuilt the complete IFRS 16 schedule from source contracts, reconciled to the audited prior-year position, and delivered a single working file with full audit trail.
Client was preparing for a first external audit under IFRS after three years of internal-only reporting. Built the complete financial statements with TB → Notes → FS linkage, documented all accounting policy positions, and pre-emptively constructed the PBC working paper set before the auditor arrived on site.
A short, irregular series of research briefs. Written for operators and audit committees, not for tax-alert distribution lists. One take per brief, with the workings underneath.
Every engagement runs through four steps. No billable-hour roulette. No surprise invoices. No ambiguity about what happens when.
A 30-minute call to understand exactly what is needed. If the fit isn't right, I'll say so — and point you somewhere better.
A one-page engagement letter: fixed scope, fixed fee, fixed timeline. You know what the work is and what it costs before it starts.
The work is done directly. Weekly checkpoints with drafts shared openly — not held until a grand reveal at the end.
The deliverable plus the working files — formulas, assumptions, sources. One review pass included. Everything is yours to extend.
Daftar exists because a particular kind of work — technical, senior, direct — has become unreasonably expensive to access. The goal is to make that work available to the operators who need it most.
Every deliverable is built to survive the auditor, the board, the regulator, and the passage of time. If it cannot survive all four, it is not finished.
Fixed scope, fixed fee, fixed timeline. Every engagement has a defined boundary because billable-hour pricing rewards the wrong behaviours.
Plain-English memos. Tied-out spreadsheets. Models anyone on your team can read. The craft is in making the complex legible.
Dual Big Four training. Active engagements across KSA, UAE, Jordan, and the Washington DC metro. Reporting frameworks: IFRS, SOCPA, US GAAP, and PCAOB.
A 30-minute scoping call, no obligation, no pitch. If there's a fit, we'll discuss scope and fee. If there isn't, I'll point you toward someone better positioned. Fixed quote back within 48 hours of the call.