Cabinet Conseil Christophe Dor & Associés

Cabinet Conseil Christophe Dor & Associés is an accounting firm on avenue de Marlagne, on the heights of Namur, at the foot of the Citadel. Its founder, Christophe Dor, opened the firm on 29 July 1997, at the age of twenty, originally under the name Fiscoges. The team brings together three tax accountants certified by the ITAA, including partner Pierre-Etienne Josse, and three staff members: an accountant, a trainee accountant and an administrative manager who has been there for more than twenty years. The founder personally supervises every file. The company is registered with the ITAA under number 50.220.738.

The founder's background explains part of the approach. The son of a building contractor, Christophe Dor worked as an accounting clerk in a Namur firm, as chief financial officer at Eternum in Gembloux, as manager of a grocery shop, as an adviser to mini-companies for the non-profit Jeunes Entreprises, as a management trainer at IFAPME in Wavre and as a member of the Henallux examination board for more than fifteen years. His preferred fields are personal income tax, corporate income tax, tax procedure and company law. His partner focuses on personal and corporate income tax, for self-employed people and companies alike.

In accounting and tax, the firm organises the client's file, keeps and updates the accounts, and chooses with the client the accounting method suited to the business and its size. It prepares periodic VAT returns, listings and related obligations. It analyses the client's personal and professional situation to optimise tax returns and assists during tax audits. Accounting can be handled entirely online: documents are sent remotely, clients follow their figures almost in real time, and every file stays under the partners' supervision. The firm also works in AS/400 environments running legacy accounting software.

The advisory and management side covers the analysis of margins, costs, profitability and liquidity, drawing up budgets and forecasts, custom dashboards and cash monitoring. The firm also supports clients with investments, restructurings and development projects. For businesses in difficulty, it carries out a full diagnosis, proposes recovery measures such as spreading debts or renegotiating with banks and the tax authorities, helps with payment plans and VAT regularisations, and, where needed, guides a voluntary liquidation or the closure of the business.

On the legal and corporate side, the firm relies on the Belgian Code of Companies and Associations. It supports voluntary and court-ordered liquidations in coordination with the notary, organises ordinary and extraordinary general meetings, from notice to minutes, and handles the incorporation of companies by private deed, up to the formalities with the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises and VAT registration. It also prepares the financial plans required when a company is incorporated, with projections, funding needs and a viability analysis for founders and banks.

Its clients are largely Belgian family SMEs, which it supports in management, tax planning, growth and succession, along with self-employed people and liberal professions. The firm knows construction and technical trades well, the founder's own background: site cycles, provisions and equipment investment. Above all, it has a rare speciality, private aviation. A pilot himself, Christophe Dor works with aircraft-owning pilots, operating companies, flying clubs and leisure aviation businesses: depreciation of aircraft, allocation of maintenance and hangar costs, VAT treatment of private use and choice of legal structure.