Cabinet d'Expert-Comptable et Conseil Fiscal FISCONSULT

Fisconsult is an accounting practice on Rue Hamoir in La Louvière, in the Centre region of the province of Hainaut. It was founded in 1991, giving it more than three decades of practice, and works for three audiences it distinguishes explicitly: commercial companies, the non-profit sector and private individuals. That threefold orientation is uncommon. A non-profit association is not kept like a commercial company, in accounting or in tax terms, and an office announcing both must master two separate frameworks in parallel.

The firm presents its team by skill rather than by person. A client can find an accountant, a tax specialist, a social legislation specialist and a financial consultant. The social strand stands out: social legislation is an area many practices refer out to an external payroll office, and having it in-house changes how questions about hiring staff, director remuneration and contributions are handled.

Routine services cover bookkeeping, but also its mere supervision where the business does its own entries, an intermediate arrangement few offices offer explicitly. To that are added VAT and tax returns, the preparation of balance sheets and accounting, tax and social advice. The firm also announces cost accounting along with planning and organisation, meaning the work of breaking the figures down by activity or by site rather than presenting them as a single block.

A second set of engagements falls under expertise proper. The office announces on-site verification of accounts, control and audit of bookkeeping, and the engagements the law reserves for accountants. It supports the drafting of the financial plan, the formation of companies and associations, the running of general meetings down to the management report and the attendance list, and filing and registration in the Belgian Official Gazette. That level of detail signals an office at ease with the legal formalities that accompany a company's life.

The third set concerns difficult situations, and the firm does not soften them. It announces wealth and estate management, judicial reorganisation and assistance in corporate crisis management. Judicial reorganisation is a framed procedure allowing a company in difficulty to obtain a stay in order to restructure, and its success depends largely on the quality of the financial plan put before the court. Few practices display that capability, which implies having already run such files.

The office finally offers consultancy in business organisation, management and financial management, and provides a client area for document follow-up. It describes its reach around La Louvière, towards Nivelles, Soignies, Mons, Braine-l'Alleud and Charleroi, which is a good part of Hainaut and southern Walloon Brabant. For a self-employed person, a small company or an association in that area, the interest of this practice lies less in a speciality than in the breadth of the range, from the routine to the exceptional, with a single contact.