Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Increase in LWF Contribution in the state of Tamil Nadu



The Government of Tamil Nadu has made changes and increased the Labour Welfare Fund (LWF) contribution as per the following details:
 
  • Employee Contribution: Rs. 10 per annum
  • Employer Contribution:  Rs. 20 per annum
This increase in  LWF contribution is effective from January 2015.
 *** All employers are requested to ensure compliance in LWF deduction from their employees’ salary as per the new rate from January 2015 onwards.




Thursday, December 11, 2014

Compliance Adminstration Services


Statutory compliance administration is very crucial today, because the tax and finance world is changing at a rapid pace. Government is continually changing the laws and creating new rules very frequently. Hence, staying updated on constantly changing tax laws and regulations, meeting strict government deadlines, and avoiding costly fines and penalties can be an administrative burden for a company of any size. 
Statutory Compliance Management by Mynd Solutions

Mynd has a strong partner network to ensure that global statutory compliance services are provided in line with the local rules and regulations. 
We specialize in statutory compliance management and help our clients in complying with the local laws and procedures and maintain regular compliance to prevent any non-compliance issues thereby streamlining business processes that adds up tangible and intangible financial benefits for our clients. Mynd provided a single point of contact for India compliances and also for global compliances.

To ensure that the local requirements are fully compliant, Mynd provides the following:

Mynd Prepares and submits monthly/quarterly/yearly payroll related documents to various government authorities under the required name as per local laws. Wherever applicable, Mynd handles monthly / quarterly / yearly tax computations and prepares relevant statutory reports. Wherever it's applicable, an ESS (Employee Self Service) panel is provided for employee’s tax declaration purpose. Mynd Prepares and communicates year end submission guidelines document after confirmation with Client.

Mynd’s retirement benefits platform provides a one stop solution to our clients, whether they are with the Government run RPFC or they have their own trust. The entire process runs on a PF platform which brings transparency and accountability to the entire process. Mynd helps companies address the need to mitigate pension expense volatility and enhance investment performance by utilizing sophisticated asset allocation, hedging, risk management strategies and every other compliance management aspects. We utilize a strategic approach to help clients manage all aspects of their employee’s retrials benefits.

The spectrum of Compliance Management Services we offer includes:

  • Provision of tangible and in-tangible benefits by setting up an in-house Fund to Client’s organization and its employees
  • Drafting of trust deed and rules including all legal activities in this regard
  • Handling complex activities related to obtaining approvals from Income Tax Department, Provident Fund Office and any other department
  • Day to day administration services for Fund including accounting, legal and transaction
  • Processing Services with latest automation techniques
  • Transparent and IT enabled Help Desk Services for Members




Monday, December 8, 2014

Trends in Finance & Accounting Outsourcing Services


A Brief Introduction to Finance & Accounting Outsourcing Services
The current era of commercialization and globalization are witnessing the adoption of outsourcing as an integral fragment of the core business strategies. With numerous companies getting on the outsource mode, the market is exhibiting a lot of growth in this sector.

Latest market studies point out that a huge chunk of existing outsourcing industry clients plan on growing their investment pooled into outsourcing. Lately, process outsourcing for finance & accounting is steadily growing and majority of the firms are undertaking the same.

Accounting Outsourcing is basically subcontracting some/all accounting operations and processes to an external vendor. The outsourced functions include Purchase to Pay, Fixed Asset Management, Order to Cash, Employee Reimbursements, GL Accounting etc.




Current F & A Outsourcing trends
  • Management of Transactional services is the largest opportunity in the F&A BPO space, whereas payables are amongst the highest outsourced function in F&A.
  • Earlier companies used to only outsource certain parts of their accounting processes such as AP/AR and some reconciliation processes. In the current scenario however, companies are sub-contracting the full gamut of activities involved in their financial processes. A probable reason for the same is that companies have understood the significance of being at the centre of strategic activities rather than transactional.
  • Service providers are in the process of improving skills and polishing capabilities in process execution and their clients are accordingly trying to achieve the best from that.
  • Stringent federal regulations in the European &US markets are driving corporates to adopt outsourcing in order to save their time, efforts and cost.
  • SMB’s offer a plethora of business opportunities for Financial Outsourcing domain.
  • Some recent market statistics have also revealed that companies these days are primarily adopting finance and Accounting Outsourcing  to save their expenditure, as well as to migrate the F&A function from being a cost exhaustive support function to a dynamic core business function.


Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Finance & Accounting Services by Mynd Solutions

Finance and Accounts Outsourcing Services

It is critical that transaction processing is handled with greater reliability and timeliness at a much lower cost. As a result Shared Services and BPO have fast become proven sourcing approaches for most finance processes and finance and accounts outsourcing process is seen as the most convenient and valuable solution. Initially they focused on the high-volume activities associated with Procure to Pay, Order to Cash and Plan to Report processes. Their scope has steadily increased to include areas of more specialist skills such as Management and Regulatory Reporting, Consolidation, Budgeting, Tax and Treasury Management.




Mynd’s Finance and Accounting Outsourcing has pioneered the finance and accounting solutions by integrating domain expertise, global delivery network and technology solutions. Mynd assists in identifying, transitioning, transforming, executing and continuously adding value to finance and accounts outsourcing processes through a low-cost Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services model, without compromising on quality and compliance. We believe in delivering the right information at the right time.

We provide our clients managed Finance and Accounting Outsourcing Services at the lowest possible costs so that they can focus on their core business activities while saving a significant amount of overhead costs on these activities.

We are offering Accounting Outsourcing Services worldwide and providing tailor-made solutions to our clients. We have our offices inIndia, UAE and Singapore. We are catering our services in India, Asia, UnitedKingdom (UK), USA, and other countries of Europe. We have a very strong partner network in more than 60 countries to offer you smooth outsourcing services.


Mynd Solutions provides best solutions for outsourcing your accounts payables. The services offered aims to meet client’s business objectives as well as cost-optimization goals. We deal with global clients and provide customized solutions for many industries namely Media & Entertainment, Health, Telecom, Banking and Finance, Foreign Exchange etc. Delivering them our services of accounts payable enables them to focus on their core strategies. Reduction in operational costs has helped our clients’ boost their business. We provide great control over finances, which in turn enhance profits of the company. 

Our services of accounts payable include Data Capture, Data processing, suspecting its duplicity and disbursement. This is presented in the form of reports, utility bills, tax reporting, travel and expenses. Furthermore, this will help reduce invoice discrepancies and build clients’ relationship stronger. Mynd Solutions has established itself as one of the leading accounts payable outsourcing company in India. It has been able to centralize archiving all sorts of receivable data in a form of document.


Mynd Solutions also deals globally as a one of the largest accounts receivable outsourcing company in India. It is an essential part of a business activity that improves cash flow directly, through extensive account reporting. The customers must consistently follow-up on outstanding invoices and facilitate quicker payments. Accounts receivable outsourcing services includes billing, making entries of transactions received, and record revenue, prepare periodic statements, preparing reports of receivables etc. Our specialized functional area provides best value to the customers as per their investment plans. All the services are mostly presented in the form of documents, as a result, easy retrievals of data is accessible on a common platform. Each account entry gets detailed handling through our customer service representatives efforts and hard work. We provide customized services to our clients, as per the nature of business they are dealing in, and their core strategies.



Vendor helpdesk (VHD) assists companies in tracking each and every vendor invoice as it travels through different departments in the company for approvals, while monitoring the SLA committed to the vendor for payment. This is mainly set up to handle large volumes of vendor invoices or as a support to a centralized payable process running in corporate.
While mostly the VHD is customized to suit client requirements it broadly aims to achieve the following:     
  • ·     Centralize the vendor bill receipt / track checked invoices for relevant support and provide email confirmation to vendors for receipt of invoices.
  • ·         Forward to departments for approvals
  • ·         Forward to Finance for cheque preparation
  • ·         Cheque issuance to vendor with details
  • ·         Monitor turn-around-time (TAT) for payment
  • ·         MIS
  • ·         Handling all correspondence with vendors



Saturday, November 1, 2014

HR Process Outsourcing and Your Organization..


Business Process Outsourcing
HR Outsourcing

HR is a strategic business function in most organizations and hence outsourcing the processes related to it is a task that requires ample thought and decision. There are several concerns that most HR decision-makers normally have with regards to confidentiality of employee information, loss of control over their internal resources and knowledge also the quality of work delivered remains a major concern.
Several organizations in the employee range of 1,000-5000 are outsourcing their Human Resource processes as a cost-control strategy. HR is primarily a non-profitable cost centre in the organization, and hence qualifies itself as the best area to be outsourced to a third party. More and more companies are now subcontracting the backend HR functions including compensation and benefits administration, recruitments, expense management, payroll and statutory compliances.
As per market statistics, HR is one of the most aggressively growing segments in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) market. The primary driving factors behind the increasing adoption of HRO (for not just the redundant backend tasks but even for performance management, talent management, training etc.)-
Efficiency Enhancement: Efficiency is undoubtedly a primary driver in the outsourcing business. Mostly, efficiency depends upon the outsourcing service provider’s capability to enable technology additions to the usual HR platforms and processes.
Cost Benefits: Majority of the outsourcing decisions are intended at direct cost benefits to the company. However, one needs to know that solely basing an outsourcing decision on price benefits does not guarantee success.


Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Mynd Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Official Blog: SMBs and Outsourcing...

Mynd Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Official Blog: SMBs and Outsourcing...: There is a general perception  among  small & medium business owners that third-party outsourcing of business functions such as HR i...