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Experience the Power of being understood

We ARS exist to empower our clients to move forward to the next step with confidence.
The business world is evolving rapidly. Through advances in technology, communications and infrastructure, business barriers are disappearing and each day we become ever more global.

In this fast-paced environment, you need an adviser that thinks ahead and rapidly responds to your changing needs. At ARS, we build strong relationships based on deep understanding of what matters most to our clients.
It is our strong, collaborative approach that differentiates us. We will strive to truly understand you, your strategies and your aspirations and endeavor to be considered the adviser of choice to your business. By sharing the ideas and insights of our most senior professionals, we bring our expert local and global knowledge and resources to your environment, so you feel understood and empowered to move forwards with confidence.
This is the power of being understood. This is the ARS experience and our commitment to you.

Distinguishing Beliefs

  •  Building strong, collaborative client relationships based on a genuine understanding of needs, strategy and aspirations
  • Striving to be an essential part of our clients’ business, thinking ahead and responding rapidly to changing needs seamlessly across the globe
  • Benefiting every client from the ideas and insights of our most senior experts, and enabling them to move forward with confidence, Collaboration. Understanding. Ideas and insight.
Values and Culture:

The Power of Being Understood is all about confidence. When you work with ARS, you are working with people who will take the time to truly understand you, who will bring tailored ideas and insight to your environment and who are committed to your success, helping you make confident decisions about your future.
This is achieved through our pursuit towards excellence in providing high quality services which are focused on the core principles of integrity, quality, focus, timeliness, accessibility and commitment.

Integrity

We strive to ensure the highest level of integrity while focusing on your deliverables. We place utmost care and relevance to ensure that the deliverables comply with the principles of ethics, fairness, honesty and integrity which are the cornerstones of our practice.

Quality

We aim to deliver qualitative solutions that can help to achieve your strategic objectives by deploying our best trained personnel and using the expertise and insights of our senior most leaders. We value deep, long-lasting and time-tested relationship with our clients and we build this through our commitment to professional excellence and providing you with highest quality service.

Focus

We believe in providing highly focused client-oriented solutions which has been hallmark of all endeavors and has time and again motivated us to deliver our best under all circumstances.

Accessibility

In the dynamics of the ever changing and competitive business environment, we understand that being accessible to you is an integral function of your growth. We believe that easy accessibility is essential for any relationship to succeed and accordingly every care is taken to ensure easy accessibility of our personnel at all times.

Timeliness

We are committed to providing timely, cost-effective services by working closely with you to achieve your objectives in the most practical and efficient manner.

Commitment

We are committed to our objective of maintaining excellence in client servicing and also believe in commitment towards of our employees. We foster a working environment where people are respected, challenged and encouraged, trained and nurtured, where achievements are recognized, and where we enjoy what we do.

About our Multi-disciplinary Team

ARS in Sri Lanka has a multi-disciplinary team of professionals comprising of:
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Chartered Accountants

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Management Accountants

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Tax Professionals

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Information Technology Professionals

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Accountancy, Management Graduates
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Registered Company Secretaries & Law Graduates

Our people are equipped with the requisite skills, industry acumen and experience to deliver customized solutions to help minimize the risks and maximize returns from your operations.

Team of ARS practice under different industry and service verticals and work closely with our clients to offer tailored expertise for their local and global operations. Our clients across a wide range of businesses and borders benefit from our team’s ability to respond with speed and agility and the expertise of some of our industry’s most respected practitioners.

The Firm has a well-structured team, with pre-defined roles and responsibilities, and with the required supervision from the seniors/ partners. A structured approach not only aids in delivering services to the satisfaction of clients, but also provides a structured road-map for the professionals.

The Management Team

Experts in the field of Practicing
Partner
Ajith Pusphakumara

FCA, FCMA, B.Com.(special)

Ajith is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) and Fellow Member of Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka (CMA Sri Lanka). He is also a Registered Company Secretary. He has a degree in Commerce & Finance from the University Kelaniya (UOK), Sri Lanka. He has served as a committee member of Taxation Committee of CA Sri Lanka during 2017-2018. He is having more than twenty two years of experience specialized in accounting & finance, auditing & assurance, taxation, business advisory in various industries.

Partner
Sanjeewa Rajith

ACA, ACMA

Rajith is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka(CA Sri Lanka) and an Associate Member of the Institute of Management Accountants of Sri Lanka (CMA Sri Lanka). He is also a registered Company Secretary in Sri Lanka. He has been a finance professional for more than twenty-five (25) years in various industries in diversified business organizations. His speciality includes in Audit & Assurance, Financial Accounting & Reporting, Management Consultancy and Taxation. He has served as a member of the SME Task force committee of CA Sri Lanka and the Annual Report award committee of CA Sri Lanka and a member of the Tax forum of CA Sri Lanka.

Director-UAE Region
Mahesh Liyanage

ACA, CPA (Aust.) ACPM, Bsc. (App. Accounting)

Mahesh is a finance professional with more than 15 years of experience and has a long working experience in Middle east. He is a Chartered Accountant (ACA) and Certified Practising Accountant in Australia (CPA (Aust). He is Chartered Professional Manager also and hold a Bachelor of Science degree specialised in Applied Accounting. He has more than 15 years of diverse geographical experience in different industries involving full spectrum of Business Processes Outsourcing, Accounting and Reporting, Control Design and Implementation, Assurance of controls, Advisory for Tax Planning and Application etc..

Director
Ranil Jayakody

ACA, B.Sc.(Bus.Admin)sp, MBA(Uni. of Col.)

Ranil is a Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka). He has a bachelor degree in Business Administration from the University of Sri Jawardenepura (USJ) and Master degree in Business Administration (MBA) from University of Colombo (UOC) Sri Lanka. He is having more than twenty five years of experience specialized in accounting & finance, auditing & assurance, taxation, costing and advisory services which includes feasibility reports, due diligence, business valuation and internal audit in various industries.

Consultant – HR & Administration
Malinda Balasooriya
Malinda had been working as a HR professional in both strategic & operational level HR roles over 20 years in various business segments in Sri Lanka. He has obtained his Advance National Dip. in HR and National Dip. in Training & Development and focused his extensive expertise in Human Resources Management Systems (HRIS/HRMS) for the practical applicability of those in HR & Administration processes.

With his strategic approach of understanding and mapping the client’s exact HR scope with HRIS/HRMS due to his HR domain knowledge, has placed him as a HR Technologist.

Consultant – Legal Advisory
Anne Dinusha Fernando

L.L.B.(Hons),
University of Colombo, Attorney-at-Law, Notary Public

Anne is a Senior Lawyer who possesses a Degree in Bachelor of Laws from Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Attorney-at-Law from Sri Lanka Law College and Notary Public. She is also the CEO at Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Sri Lanka. She has gained a wide range of comprehensive experience in Legal and Company Secretarial practices. She is having more than 15 years of experience in the field of commercial & industrial law, Company law, contractual and property law and commercial sector dispute resolution. She has vast experience in mediation, conflict resolution and negotiation.
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