Engagement Letter - Bookkeeping and Tax Filing - NON VAT
Engagement Letter - Bookkeeping and Tax Filing - NON VAT
Engagement Letter - Bookkeeping and Tax Filing - NON VAT
, Bayanan, Muntinlupa
City [email protected]
09158288685
Date:
Company Name:
Dear Ma’am/Sir,
This letter is to confirm our understanding of the terms and objective of our engagement as
well as the nature and limitations of the services we will provide.
Our Responsibility
For a 12 month period starting from signing this engagement, we will provide you the
following services:
File the monthly and quarterly tax returns as required by the BIR with
related attachments as necessary.
1. Our engagement is limited to the period and the accounting services indicated above.
3. This engagement will not audit or review your financial statements, or any
other accounting documents and information you provide, in accordance with
generally accepted auditing standards. Accordingly, we ask that you not in any manner
refer to this as an audit or review.
4. We will not verify the data you submit for accuracy or completeness. Rather, we will
rely on the accuracy and completeness of the documents and information you provide to
us. Accordingly, our engagement cannot be relied upon to disclose errors, fraud, or
other illegal acts that may exist. However, it may be necessary to ask you for clarification
of some of the information you provide, and we will inform you of any material errors,
fraud or other illegal acts that come to our attention, unless they are clearly
inconsequential.
Client Responsibility
1. Responsible for adopting sound accounting policies, for maintaining an adequate and
efficient accounting system, for safeguarding assets, for authorizing transactions, for retaining
supporting documentation for those transactions, and for devising a system of internal controls
that will, among other things, help assure the preparation of proper financial statements.
Furthermore, you are responsible for management decisions and functions, for designating a
competent employee to oversee any of the services we provide, and for evaluating the adequacy
and results of those services.
2. Responsible for the design and implementation of programs and controls to prevent and
detect fraud, and for informing us about all known or suspected fraud affecting the Company
involving (a) management (b) employees who have significant roles in internal control, and (c)
others where the fraud could have a material effect on the financial statements.
3. You are also responsible for informing us of your knowledge of any allegations of fraud
or suspected fraud affecting the Company received in communications from employees,
former employees, regulators, or others.
4. In addition, you are responsible for identifying and ensuring that the entity complies
with applicable laws and regulations.
5. Responsible to provide us the following documents:
a) DTI/ SEC Registration
b) BIR 2303 / Certificate of Registration
c) Mayor's Permit
d) AFS & ITR Previous Year
e) All Tax Returns File for the Current Year
f) Inventory List Year end as Submitted to the BIR
g) Articles of Incorporation & By Laws ( If Corporation)
h) Trial Balance as of December 31 of the Prior Year
i) Bank Statement as of December 31 of the Prior Year
j) Summary Of Accounts Receivables as of December 31 of the Prior
Year
k) Summary Of Accounts Payable as of December 31 of the Prior Year
l) Fixed Asset Monitoring (date of Purchased, Cost, Useful Life,
Reference/ Serial No. )
m) Summary Expenses of the Current Period
n) Summary of Sales / Revenue of the Current Period
o) Scanned Copy of 2307 with attached summary in Excel format
p) Copy of Purchase / Lease Contract
q) Summary of Other Income ( Interest income on Bank Deposits, net of
related final Tax)
r) Other documents necessary for correct bookkeeping and tax filing.
Any failure to provide such documents and information, and to do so on a timely basis,
will impede our services, and may require us to suspend our services or withdraw from
the engagement. You agree to accept responsibility for any effect on your accounting records
and financial statements of basic financial information or transaction documents not submitted
to us for processing and entry, or losses that may result from their absence.
For purposes of entry of the financial information from your basic transaction
documents, classification according to the agreed-upon chart of accounts will be performed by
you or your employees. As business conditions change, we may mutually agree to
change/modify this arrangement.
Client agrees that these documents should be forwarded to our office on a periodic basis,
such as monthly, as this will enable us to provide you with a current, meaningful and useful
financial statement.
Retention Policy:
In conformity with the BIR requirements, we suggest that you adopt a 5 year policy to keep
all the accounting records and work papers related to the engagement. When records
are returned, it is your responsibility to retain and protect them for future use, potential
examination by any government or regulatory agency, prospective buyers of your business and
acquiring business loans.
D.VIVO Accounting Services recognize its responsibilities under the Republic Act No. 10173,
also known as the Data Privacy Act of 2012 with respect to the data they collect, record,
organize, update, use, consolidate or destruct from the client. The personal data obtained from
the client through emails and print out documents is stored within the firm’s system and will only
be accessed by DVA and DVA authorized personnel.
To provide business services to you including but not limited to SEC Registration,
Business Permit Assistance, BIR Registration.
To manage our business operations and administer our client relationships, in order to
perform our obligations under our contract with you
We keep your data for the duration of our contractual relation. You may access your personal
data or request the erasure thereof. Moreover, you have a right to be informed, right to object,
right to access, right to rectify, and right to damages subject to the rules and regulations of DPA
2012.
Our Fee Policy:
Our fees for this bookkeeping and tax filing services will be ONE THOUSAND FIVE
HUNDRED PESOS ONLY (PHP 1,500.00), net of the applicable taxes per month for Non-
Vat Registered. Transportation cost will be billed separately. A nonrefundable deposit
equivalent to one monthly fee (ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED PESOS) is due at the time
of engagement. This will be subtracted to the final billing. Ongoing services will be billed on a
monthly basis.
Security Bank
Account Name: D.VIVO Accounting Services
Account Number: 0000041324043
Gcash number:09173031394
Gcash name: Jermaine Victoria Del Rosario
Any additional accounting services requested will be billed separately. This may include, but
is not limited to, any compliance services including Annual FS Audit and Business
Management.
All invoices are due and payable upon presentation. Billings become delinquent if not
paid within 15 days of the invoice date. If billings are past due in excess of 45 days, we will stop
all work until your account is brought current, or you withdraw from the engagement.
The client acknowledges and agrees that we are not required to continue work in the event
of failure to pay on a timely basis for services rendered as required by this engagement letter.
The client further acknowledges and agrees that in the even we stop work or withdraw from
this engagement as a result of the client’s failure to pay on a timely basis for services rendered
as required by this engagement letter, we, DV Accounting, shall not be liable for any
damages that occur as a result of ceasing to render services.
If a dispute arises among the parties hereto, the parties agree first to try in good faith to
settle the dispute by mediation administered appropriate body.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign the Engagement Letter
in the space provided and return it to the undersigned.
We appreciate the opportunity to serve you and trust that our association will be a long
and pleasant one.
Sincerely,
Danhilson O. Vivo
MANAGING DIRECTOR
DV ACCOUNTING
ACCEPTED AND AGREED TO BY:
Date: