Chartered accounting  - Auditing - Corporate finance - Social  - Legal - International

We have set up specialised divisions to advise and assist company directors at all key stages of their professional and private lives.
Our specialised wealth management division helps our clients to preserve and enhance the value of their assets and to anticipate their transmission.
This division was set up 15 years ago. It specialises in the management of tax-free investments, including all the associated legal, accounting, tax and employment aspects.
Our specialised division offers bespoke social protection, health, pensions and employee savings solutions.

Our membership of recognised national and international networks allows us to contribute to our clients' success and offer added value to our accounting, audit and consulting services, throughout the world.

Member of the Eurus Alliance

The Eurus Alliance is the 3rd largest national association of independent accounting, auditing and consultancy firms. Representing 42 firms, 240 partners and 2,700 employees, Eurus members are present in 185 towns or cities throughout France. Members share experience, pool knowledge and develop and share innovative tools and methods, benefiting from the diversity and variety of the association’s members.

Member of BKR International

This international association currently represents more than 160 accounting firms in more than 500 towns or cities and 80 different countries. Our membership of BKR International means we can call on correspondent firms with specialist knowledge of their local environment in almost any country in the world.

Member of ATH

The ATH technical Association represents 21 audit and accounting firms and more than 2,000 employees. Its objective is to pool resources and accordingly improve the quality of the services members provide.

The Association offers:

• Strategic intelligence on changing client expectations
• Research on the optimisation of methods and techniques
• Training for staff skill building
• An internal quality control procedure to monitor the quality of services delivered

Two new legal obligations concerning, firstly, company law (the creation of a register of beneficial owners) and, secondly, the payment of social security contributions on your investment income and interest on shareholders’ current accounts (electronic payments or “télérèglement”) are to be introduced in 2018.
These are our suggestions for complying with these obligations.

=> Our general information
=> The letter of information on the introduction of the Register of Beneficial Owners
=> Document for beneficial owners of a company
=> The power of attorney

Need more information ? Contact us !

 Recruitment subsidy for SMEs

€500 paid quarterly by transfer during the first two years of the contract for a total of €4,0000

Companies with fewer than 250 employees (on average in 2015)
Hiring an employee between January 18, 2016 and December 31, 2016
Employee Remuneration not exceeding 1.3 minimum wage (“SMIC”) : €22,877 annual gross - €1,906 monthly gross

Contract types :

• Permanent contract (“CDI”)
• Fixed-term contract of 6 months and more (“CDD”)
• Transformation of a Fixed-term contracts into a Permanent contract
• “Contrat de professionnalisation” of 6 months and more

• Subsidy amount depends on :
  • The contract duration => 6 months CDD = two bonuses of €500 or €1,000 in total
  • The weekly hours of work => part-time employees case
• Salary amount over 1.3 * SMIC with weekly working hours exceeding 35 hours : if the hourly rate (excluding bonus due to overtime) does not exceed 1.3 * minimum wage hourly rate (€12,26) => aid is granted.
• Contracts with bonuses : If the bonus amount is not clearly identified on the employment contract (bonuses indexed on sales for instance), it will not be taken into account to grant the subsidy => only the initial employment contract and the clearly identified amounts in the remuneration are taken into account to grant or not to grant the subsidy.
• Fixed-term contract extension : aid is not granted if a CDD under 6 months is renewed , even if the total period of the 2 CDD is equal to 6 months or more.

This aid can be combined with:

• « le CICE »
• « l’aide réduction bas salaire »
• « le pacte de responsabilité et de solidarité »

This aid is not cumulative with the recruitment of a first employee assistance. This aid does not apply to the apprenticeship contracts .

If the recruitment aims to replace an employee (including for example maternity leave) : aid granted => What matters is the contract duration (of 6 months or more).

• Apply online on the embauchepme.gouv.fr website by filling out a CERFA form
• Transmit the original printed to the « Agence de services et de paiement » (ASP)
• Confirm your employee presence on the Portal Sylae of ESL each quarter end
• Our Social Department can handle the process, from the initial request for the quarterly management

Contact : Marie Christine MEHENNIE - m.mehenni@groupesfc.fr - +33 4 78 17 17 17