The scaling operator
Revenue is compounding, headcount is climbing, and the finance function is three people behind. Needs bookkeeping, a real close and monthly reporting a board can read.
About the Firm
Big-four rigour. Founder-sized attention.
AN Global Advisory exists for the company caught between the two: too complex for a local bookkeeper, too small to be a priority at a global network firm.
Why We Started
We kept meeting good companies with unbankable numbers
Profitable businesses. Real customers. Genuine growth. And then a set of financial statements that could not survive a lender's credit committee, a fund's diligence process or a first-year audit. The ceiling was never the business — it was the reporting underneath it.
We built AN Global Advisory to remove that ceiling. One senior advisor, accountable end to end, applying the same technical accounting standards used by listed groups to companies with twenty people and an ambition to become two hundred.
We are deliberately independent. We do not sell software licences, we do not take referral commissions, and we will tell you when a piece of work is not worth doing yet.
- 2016
- Practising since
- 4
- Continents served
- IFRS & US GAAP
- Reporting frameworks
- 1
- Senior advisor per file
Operating Principles
Four commitments we will not trade away
These are not values on a wall. They are the terms of every engagement letter we sign.
- Technical truth first
- Where a standard is uncomfortable, we say so in writing and show you the options. An accounting position that cannot be defended in an audit is not a position — it is a deferred problem.
- Named accountability
- The advisor who scopes your work performs it. Nothing is quietly handed to an offshore team you have never met, and nothing is signed by a partner who has not read the file.
- Fixed scope, fixed fee
- You approve a deliverable and a price before work starts. No hourly creep, no surprise invoices in the week your audit lands.
- Build, then hand over
- Every engagement leaves behind documentation your own team can run: close calendars, reconciliation templates, control narratives, accounting memos. Dependency is not a business model.
Who We Serve
SMEs with an institutional future
The first-time auditee
A lender, regulator or new investor has just required audited financial statements. Needs audit readiness, ICOFR readiness and statements prepared to framework.
The seller in waiting
An approach has been made, or one is coming. Needs valuation, merger and acquisition readiness, and a diligence file that does not invite a price chip.
Credentials & Coverage
Qualified, independent, and used to being tested
Our work is reviewed by external auditors, lenders, acquirers and regulators every year. It is built to be.
- Chartered accountants with Big Four audit backgrounds
- IFRS and US GAAP financial statement preparation and independent review
- Valuation work aligned to international valuation standards
- ICOFR design and remediation experience across regulated sectors
- Engagements delivered across the GCC, Africa, Europe, South Asia and North America
Meet the advisor, not a sales team
The first call is with the person who would run your engagement. Thirty minutes, no charge, and a straight answer on whether we are the right firm for the problem.