Fiduciaire Chantry Expert-Comptable

Fiduciaire Chantry is an accounting firm at number 18 rue Robert Campin in Tournai, western Hainaut. The company is registered with the ITAA under number 50.735.040. It serves clients throughout Wallonia, with a particular presence around Tournai. Its head, Philippe Chantry, a certified accountant and tax adviser, has thirty-three years of experience and works for businesses of all sizes, from large organisations to SMEs. The firm sums up its strength in three words: competence, seriousness and availability.

The team Philippe Chantry has built since founding the firm includes Jérôme Debuyssche, a tax accountant, an accounting graduate and a trainee accountant. The firm describes the accountant as the person who can say what clients would rather not hear, who is the memory of the business and whose professional ethics guarantee an objective approach. The tax adviser, for their part, must think beyond tax: family disputes, economic downturns, illness or divorce are all pitfalls that tax arrangements must be able to withstand.

For business creation, the firm starts with an initial advisory meeting to understand the project and its first steps. It then draws up a financial plan to measure viability, coordinates the formalities with the business counter and the payroll office, and activates the VAT number according to the type of activity. The firm is convinced that launching a business rests on expert advice and personal support.

In accounting, it keeps the books of self-employed people, associations and companies, with regular posting and monitoring of purchases, sales and financial transactions. It offers cost accounting to allocate and analyse costs, prepares the closing of the annual accounts with balance sheet and income statement, produces interim statements and handles the administrative follow-up of documents. On tax, it files VAT returns, customer listings and intra-Community statements, prepares personal and corporate income tax returns, and calculates and plans advance tax payments to limit surcharges.

The advisory side includes personal follow-up with regular discussions, strategic support for investment, financing and development decisions, analysis of results, margins and cash, and preparing budgets, cash plans and projections. The firm uses the Winauditor accounting software, which clients can use for e-invoicing via Peppol. It receives clients Monday to Friday, preferably by appointment. Its website also gathers useful links to the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises public search, MyMinfin, the VAT forms for starting and ending an activity, VIES checks, the National Bank, the Belgian Official Gazette, the self-employed and employee social security institutions and several social insurance funds and payroll offices.