Riaz Ahmad and Company – Karachi

With ten partners, four offices across Pakistan in Lahore, Faisalabad, Islamabad and Karachi and a workforce of over 500 highly qualified and experienced professionals, Riaz Ahmad & Company (RACO) is regarded as a “local Big4” firm of chartered accountants. The firm’s origins can be traced back as far as 1956. Through successful growth and strictly enforced quality standards, the firm today remains a strong and independent practice.

We provide audit, tax and consulting services to many different clients in a broad range of industries/sectors and we are on the panel of the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, United Nations, USAID, Pakistan Stock Exchange, State Bank of Pakistan, Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, to name a few.

Our clients comprise of all big business houses of Pakistan, multinational corporations, governments, and high net-worth individuals. A partner, who oversees from inception to completion, leads each engagement. An independent partner that has not participated in the engagement, reviews all of our engagements.

Ranking
In terms of number of staff and clients, RACO is regarded as one of the “local Big4” firms of chartered accountants.

Services include:

Audit services

• Assurance
• IFRS

Tax services

• Corporate and business tax
• Indrect taxes
• Private client
• International tax
• Global mobility

Advisory services

• Legal 
• Outsourcing
• Risk advisory
• Transactional advisory
• Dispute advisory
• Turnaround restructuring insolvency.