The K S Aiyar Alliance (“KSAA” or “The Alliance”)

Is the first platform of Indian Audit Firms. Formed on 31st January 2018, KSAA meets the wide expectations of the profession and the industry as well as the government. The industry expects the Indian Audit Firms to work in support of “Make in India”. KSAA is young and fired-up to disrupt the professional scenario in India, dominated by foreign-firms. Our member firms have the same global reach and experience to support their clients. The unified platform of KSAA will take us global to support Indian MNCs across the globe in coming decades.

The KS Aiyar Alliance is a start-up platform of like-minded senior and time-tested firms with outstanding reputation and highly respected presence in India. The member firms of KSAA are leaders in their markets. The Alliance has pan-India member firms which no other firms (including Multinational Audit Firms) possess. This distinguishes The Alliance as a unique and strong united platform which combines and creates a capability to service clients of all sizes, big and small and the very large.

Each member firm of KSAA with a long standing of repute and goodwill has come together in this alliance to form a unified and a sizeable source of resources constituted from its individual member entities. This includes the First Firm of India whose Founder Kalyana Subramani Aiyar is recognized in the country as the Father of the Accounting Profession in India. This alliance carries his educational and commercial vision to a grand and global scale.

The Alliance will be positioning itself to create niche service offerings and expertise with Indian expertise from a cross-section of industries from across the country. KSAA will work to empower its member firms to reposition itself with its clients with pooled enhanced capabilities, adopting best practices, coupled with adequate research, size of personnel with training. KSAA is a trend-setter in seeking to end the dependence and the systemic-risk in the audit profession in India - resulting from the dominance of multinational audit firms.

KSAA Member Firms possess high standards of service capabilities in areas of Statutory and Internal Audit, Direct and Indirect taxation, Management consultancy, Litigation, IT solutions, International Arbitration. KSAA member firms focus on the quality, ethics and independence of the content delivered, rather than on the packaging, keeping in mind high-traditions of Indian audit firms.

KSAA will provide enhancement of equal opportunities to new entrants in the profession, thereby creating gainful professional practice, and catalyzing the return of the younger generation of India to self-employment in the audit profession.

KSAA member firms will be guided by integrity, maintaining individual identity, and competence for its clients big and small, with an Indian approach.