Comprehensive statutory auditing, tax, and corporate consulting in Colombia.
Organized across five specialized practice areas to address the accounting, regulatory, and corporate governance requirements of your company.
Accounting Outsourcing
1 serviceAccounting & Financial Outsourcing
CPA Colombia's Accounting Outsourcing enables executive leadership and boards to focus on core business operations, with the confidence of up-to-date accounting records, systematic bank reconciliations, and transparent financial statements aligned with Colombian IFRS standards.
Benefits & Deliverables:
- ✓ Organized accounting records compliant with IFRS standards (Full IFRS or IFRS for SMEs).
- ✓ Punctual issuance of balance sheets, income statements, and executive management reports.
- ✓ Substantial reduction in compliance risks arising from accounting discrepancies or omissions.
- ✓ Direct, ongoing advisory to resolve financial and administrative queries promptly.
Tax
2 servicesTax Compliance & Corporate Filing
The Colombian tax regime demands meticulous calendar adherence and rigorous interpretation of frequent regulatory updates. Our team handles documentary auditing, computation, and formal filing of your company's tax returns, mitigating penalties and late-filing interest.
Benefits & Deliverables:
- ✓ Strict compliance with filing deadlines set by the DIAN and municipal tax offices.
- ✓ Calculations substantiated by official tax authority rulings and active jurisprudence.
- ✓ Clear reporting of withholdings, advance tax payments, and tax credits.
- ✓ Peace of mind during routine tax verification audits.
Strategic Tax Advisory & Fiscal Planning
Responsible tax planning identifies legitimate avenues provided by Colombian tax law to efficiently structure contracts, transactions, and corporate reorganizations. We guide management through scenario modeling while avoiding unnecessary fiscal exposure.
Benefits & Deliverables:
- ✓ Legitimate optimization of corporate tax burden.
- ✓ Identification of applicable tax deductions, exemptions, and statutory tax credits.
- ✓ Preventive diagnostic review of tax exposure prior to external audits.
- ✓ Technical memoranda grounded in the Colombian Tax Statute and Council of State jurisprudence.
Auditing
1 serviceStatutory Auditing & Comprehensive Assurance (Revisoría Fiscal)
The Statutory Audit (Revisoría Fiscal) and Comprehensive Assurance practice at CPA Colombia Ltda. delivers independent audit opinions on financial statements, internal control assessments, due diligence reviews, and assurance under Colombian standards, IFRS, and US-GAAP for leadership, boards, and financial institutions.
Benefits & Deliverables:
- ✓ Independent, professional audit opinion on the fairness of financial statements.
- ✓ Strengthening of internal control systems and proactive fraud prevention.
- ✓ Continuous oversight of compliance with corporate bylaws and shareholder resolutions.
- ✓ Heightened credibility before banks, governmental regulators, and institutional investors.
Advisory
2 servicesCorporate & Commercial Legal Advisory
Legal contingencies frequently stem from ambiguous contractual clauses, outdated corporate records, or mismanaged labor relations. Our legal practice complements our accounting and tax perspectives to safeguard your day-to-day operations in Colombia.
Benefits & Deliverables:
- ✓ Prevention of commercial litigation and contractual economic exposure.
- ✓ Clear corporate governance and structured shareholder relations.
- ✓ Alignment of labor policies with the Colombian Substantive Labor Code.
- ✓ Prompt legal assistance in commercial contract drafting and negotiation.
Comprehensive Corporate Advisory & Support
«We are your strategic allies · We are part of the solution». Many organizations suffer from misalignment between their accountant, tax advisor, and legal counsel. CPA Colombia's Comprehensive Advisory aligns these disciplines under unified coordination, ensuring every financial move has legal backing and tax feasibility.
Benefits & Deliverables:
- ✓ A single, trusted point of contact for key corporate operational areas.
- ✓ Business decisions analyzed simultaneously from accounting, fiscal, and legal viewpoints.
- ✓ Substantial time savings and elimination of contradictions between disparate external advisors.
- ✓ Periodic strategic review meetings focused on forward-looking planning.
Human Capital
1 servicePayroll Outsourcing & Human Capital Management
Your people are your most valuable intangible asset. At CPA Colombia Ltda., our comprehensive payroll outsourcing and human capital advisory enables organizations to ensure timely payments to employees, accurate computation of social security (PILA), severance, and withholdings, preventing labor disputes or UGPP sanctions.
Benefits & Deliverables:
- ✓ Precise calculation of social security (Health, Pension, Work Risk ARL) and parafiscal contributions (SENA, ICBF, Family Compensation Funds).
- ✓ Timely calculation of statutory benefits (Severance, Severance Interest, Semi-Annual Bonus, and Paid Leave).
- ✓ Strict confidentiality in executive and administrative compensation management.
- ✓ Mitigation of sanction risks before the Ministry of Labor and the UGPP authority.