AIMCM is a professional accounting firm, accredited by Belgium’s Institute for Tax Advisors and Accountants (« ITAA »)
We provide real estate investors and corporations large and small with corporate management services catering to their accounting and fiscal requirements.
We cover the corporate lifecycle from incorporation through procedural accounting and financial reporting to acquisitions and disposals, including sundry aspects like taxation and ultimate beneficiaries disclosures.
Our approach
We offer a range of fully-integrated corporate management services that gives you all the functionality, convenience and advantages of an in-house accounting and tax department. If you prefer, we can tailor our delivery to a bespoke service catering for your particular individual needs.
Not infrequently, we work in close conjunction with lawyers, auditors, notaries and financial experts, so that clients never want for a pragmatic answer, no matter how specialised the question.
In large part, we attribute the professional standing we have garnered to the unstinting adherence that our local operations team pay to your reporting deadlines, made up as it is of individuals whose track record of experience is well worthy of the name, sensitively attending to managing the client relationship in a spirit of open communication with prompt readiness – and agility – to adapt to your needs.
Our services
Incorporation
The skills and knowledge needed to incorporate are legion – and legend. AIMCM guides you through the procedures here in Belgium and ensures you’re compliant every step of the way, including preparing your financial plan and its many precise disclosures like projected balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, and cash-flow statements, plus an array of operating, financial and investment budgets.
Our incorporation services comprise:
- Assisting you and coordinating your preparation for incorporating a registered entity under the laws of Belgium
- Preparing the detailed business plan required on incorporation
Accounting
Belgium’s accounting laws define a formal system of ledgers that companies have to use for their books of account, as well as laying down a seemingly endless raft of principles to which obeisance is demanded.
We never forget – and nor should you – that the law decrees it is the directors who bear final liability to ensure annual accounts (and the books they’re based on) give an image of the company’s net worth, financial position and operating result that is in all respects true and fair. All of which have annually to be disclosed to the National Bank of Belgium in a filing package that includes details of the board and any auditors who’ve been appointed, all according to forms and stipulations laid down by Bank regulations.
Our accounting services cover:
- Periodically remotely recording your business transactions using our in-house accounting software
- Preparing your entity’s statutory financial statements
- Assisting during the statutory audit of annual accounts
- Preparing corporate documents required by law in conjunction with annual accounts (reports, minutes of meetings and ancillary paperwork)
- Remotely filing the entire bundle on your behalf
Reporting
It is imperative that your books should be accurate and comply stringently with the panoply of official rules, and not just for annual accounts purposes since they will form the tiller with which you yourself will steer your business vessel into waters of deep growth – and by which you make sure you don’t miss your formal reporting deadlines. We’ll furnish you with timely, accurate accounting information to buoy you along in navigating the course you set for the business.
Our reporting services include:
- Adjusting local GAAP trial balance sheets so as to give you financial information according to your local requirements (international or local financial reporting standards)
- Preparing periodic financial reports in line with your disclosure requirements
UBO registration
In accordance with the 2017 legislation transposing the EU’s money-laundering and terrorism offensive into this country’s domestic laws, a centralised Register of Ultimate Beneficial Owners has now been set up. Belgian-registered companies have to collect, store and keep updated accurate, requisite details of any person qualifying as an ultimate beneficial owner, or UBO, as well as filing them with the Register.
Our UBO registration services include:
- Filing the required information
- Annually reviewing and updating that information
- Corresponding with you on deficiencies discovered
Taxation
We help you ensure you comply as required with the many deadlines imposed by fiscal regulation, with input at the level you will have decided you need (pragmatically, we don’t want to include services that your own teams are perfectly able to cover).
Value-added tax returns, it should be noted, are due for lodging 20 days after the end of the month or quarter reported on.
Corporation taxpayers require to report to the tax office in due and proper form such information as is needed in order accurately to determine their fiscal liability, to which they must attach a series of appendices.
Our taxation services cover:
- Preparing and completing your VAT returns
- Preparing and completing your annual corporate income tax return
- Assisting in the event of an audit by your local tax office
Transaction
Maximising the bottom-line value your company garners from any given transaction demands an understanding of – and a tight hand over – the relevant financial and operational issues. At AIMCM, when we counsel and advise you on your company’s transactions, the solid track-record experience and comprehensive sector knowledge acquired by us in the service of Big 4 audit firms is something in which we stake our unimpeached faith; and, with briefing to match, so can you: you must know that the advice we proffer is given you on the secure foundation of a complete understanding of the financial risks entailed in the deal, in its own particular context.
Our transaction services include:
- Assisting during the transfer, acquisition and conveyance of companies
- Performing accounting due diligence tasks
- Preparing a business plan
Our team
Quentin Galand - Director
Quentin’s alma mater is the University of Liège – HEC Management School. He’d worked as an external auditor for PwC Luxembourg from 2005 to 2008, after which he switched to performing those duties for PwC Belgium until joining AIMCM in 2019. His brief at PwC was mainly to audit real estate companies and other commercial and financial-sector (e.g. insurance) entities. PwC reaped him extensive experience working on widely diverse local and international client portfolios, which encompassed the audit gamut by including consolidated accounts, group reporting and regulated entities.
Quentin holds an MBA (in accounting, tax and international taxation) from Liège. In 2016, he was entered in Belgium as a certified external auditor. In 2019, he added as a certified accountant, as well as being appointed managing director of AIMCM.
Shayne – Accountant and tax specialist
Shayne completed a bachelor’s degree in accounting with management option at the EPFC in Brussels.
She has worked during 8 years in another accounting firm where she served a mixed portfolio of clients. During these years, she has developed her skills in VAT, Belgian accounting standards and other tax matters.
She joined the firm in 2022.
Sirine – Accountant and tax specialist
Sirine completed a bachelor’s degree at EPHEC (Brussels) in accounting with a tax option and continued with a master’s degree in tax management at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management.
She began her career in an accounting firm specializing in real estate and then continued as financial director of a multinational company active in real estate. During these years of experience, she had the opportunity to deal with a multitude of international clients.
Passionate about taxation and real estate, she joined the firm in 2021.
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