Forms, deadlines, plain answers.

With a first conversation, without obligation, in which you describe your French structure and what the parent company expects. Out of that comes a written scope: what we take on, what stays with you, and when each deadline falls.

That scope becomes the “lettre de mission”, which is mandatory in France and sets both the extent of the work and the fees attached to it.

A settled team, not a queue. Whoever keeps your books also answers the phone, and knows your business without having to reopen the file first.

French, German or English, whichever suits you. Documents for the French authorities are drawn up in French because the law requires it. Reporting to your parent company can go out in another language.

By the route you already use. Many groups work in their own system, and then we keep the books inside it rather than putting another one alongside. What matters is that the route is defined once and then holds. See the systems

The notice period is in your current engagement letter. After that we take over the balances, the opening entries, the open items and the fixed assets, and reconcile them before the first filing deadline. The full sequence

Mid-year, at the end of a VAT period. Waiting for the closing looks tidier and rarely is: the outgoing firm then finishes a year it will not follow.

Then the backlog is dealt with first, and it is quantified before anything starts. What costs money is rarely the catching up itself but what is hiding in it: a missing return, a VAT credit never claimed, a deadline that passed without anyone seeing it.

No. A VAT registration, a branch or a subsidiary: all three occur among our engagements, and they do not mean the same work. See setting up in France