SCB Library
Blog Articles
Business survival with COVID-19
04 April 2020
I am encouraged to write this blog post with the mischievous disturbance from my little son Nimrodh because the time that we spend right now at home due to COVID-19 provides a space for us to learn things that will help us not to repeat
Why do strategies fail?
04 April 2020
Organizations spend a massive amount of resources on developing their strategies. An entity must take steps to ensure that their strategies have the best chance to become successful. Sometimes right strategies may also get fails.
Should we pay tax?
02 April 2020
Despite COVID 19 as we work from home, we are indeed pleasure updating you on your tax liability and compliance requirements to avoid your ambiguity on your tax liability. Even though every organization is in the standstill temporary
COVID-19 Outbreak vs Business Continuity
27 March 2020
As COVID-19 outbreaks in many countries, contingency planning has been essential within the business world We suggest in order to overcome this situation; businesses should come up with new strategies
Working Capital & Cash Flow Management
30 JAN 2020
75% successful SMEs did have proper financial planning (Proper record keeping, prepared financial budgets, and strongly adhered). 73% of failed business did not have proper financial
REVISIT OF ECONOMIC SERVICE CHARGE (ESC) REGIME
06 SEP 2019
Economic Service Charge (ESC) was introduced with an intention to recover some tax in lieu of Income Tax from those entities that were exempted from income tax,
Forming an Overseas company in Sri Lanka
19 AUG 2019
Forming an overseas company in Sri Lanka is a process. It requires knowledge and experience on
how to form an overseas company under the Companies...
What causes to fail SMEs in Sri Lanka?
19 AUG 2017
Recently, I carried out a study on causes affecting business failure in SMEs in Sri Lanka. Some salient findings of the study that have been published in an article appeared in Daily mirror on...
Frauds through weak systems
19 AUG 2017
The Case : It was an investigation into a suspected fraud that was committed by an employee of our client. The client assigned our firm (SCB Corporate) to carryout a forensic audit in order...
Good Governance for Sri Lanka
19 AUG 2017
It was the theme or mantra of the presidential election campaign of HE, the President, Maithreepala Sirisena in 2015. It is not a new concept but some countries especially developed countries had already implemented...
Do you know that you don’t need to pay taxes?
8 NOV 2018
Does my wealth determine my tax liability? Let me tell you one thing, no one in Sri Lanka is liable to pay income tax on owning properties such as cars, land, etc.There are...
Biggest ever-single error-payment we found
19 AUG 2017
1. Introduction It is absolute happiness for our internal audit team as they found a payment of Rs. 2.3 million to a supplier of our client over a reversed Good Received Note (GRN). This...
