ORCAD FIDUCIAIRE

Orcad Fiduciaire is an accounting and tax practice with two locations: on Route de Lennik in Anderlecht, in the Brussels region, and on Rue de Jolimont in La Hestre, in Hainaut. The firm is registered with the ITAA under number 50.654.915. That dual presence, between the capital and the Centre region, spans two distinct economic areas and implies an organisation able to follow both.

What sets this office apart is the level of detail with which it describes its work. Where most practices announce "keeping your books", Orcad lists the operations: setting up the accounting system and a suitable chart of accounts, configuring the data on its own software or at the client's, allocation and entry, reconciling third-party accounts, chasing missing documents, entering sundry transactions and salaries, year-end entries, printing the journals and updating the statutory books.

Two services on that list deserve attention because they fall outside the usual frame. The first is training the client's staff in data entry, coupled with periodic review of what has been entered. It corresponds to an intermediate model, where the business keeps the entry work and the firm keeps responsibility for quality. The second is setting up cost accounting scaled to the size of the business, meaning tailored rather than standardised.

The firm also announces external reporting to a parent company, a mention that says a good deal about part of its client base: subsidiaries of groups must produce figures on a timetable and in a format set by head office, often different from the Belgian framework, which implies producing them twice. To that are added provisional statements, drafting the annual accounts with the draft general meeting and the reports, then filing with the National Bank in full or abbreviated format.

The tax strand begins before the return itself, with registering and deregistering the business with the VAT authorities, then preparing the periodic returns. The office finally announces document digitalisation tailored to each client's needs, which fits the general logic of the site: offering degrees of involvement rather than a single formula.

Running two locations with a single phone number says something about the organisation: the office centralises reception rather than duplicating functions. For a client, the practical consequence is dealing with the same team whichever site they drop documents at, which avoids the situation common in networks where the file follows the location rather than the manager.

The tools named are Octopus and Dext. The client base brings together self-employed professionals, small companies and subsidiaries of groups, across an area running from Brussels to the Hainaut Centre. For a business that does its own entries but wants supervision, or for a subsidiary reporting abroad, this office announces precisely the matching services.