Accounting Outsourcing Services in Vietnam
Hand the whole accounting function to a supervised team.
Accounting outsourcing services transfer the entire accounting function to Á Châu: receiving and validating source documents, posting the ledgers, filing value-added tax and personal income tax returns each period, preparing the annual financial statements, and completing the corporate income tax finalisation. Your company keeps the data and the decisions; the process and the deadlines become our responsibility.
Outsourcing the function differs from hiring an accountant in what happens when something goes wrong. A single in-house accountant is a single point of failure: the person who posts the entry is also the person who reviews it, and when that person resigns in March the year-end finalisation stalls. Under an outsourcing arrangement the work is distributed across a team with a defined preparer and a defined reviewer, the compliance calendar is maintained centrally rather than in one person’s memory, and the working files stay with the firm rather than on one laptop. For a foreign-invested company the argument is usually stronger still, because the parent needs reporting in English on a group timetable while the Vietnamese entity must file in Vietnamese on the statutory one, and reconciling those two calendars is a recurring monthly task rather than a one-off setup.
Scope of service
What the service includes
Document processing
Receive, validate and file invoices, contracts, bank statements and payroll records.
Bookkeeping
General ledger, sub-ledgers, fixed assets, inventory and cost allocation.
Periodic tax filing
Value-added tax, personal income tax and invoice usage reporting.
Statutory financial statements
Annual accounts prepared under the applicable Vietnamese accounting regime.
Annual finalisation
Corporate income tax and personal income tax finalisation returns.
Management reporting
Bilingual reporting packs aligned to the group reporting calendar.
Method
How the engagement runs
- Survey and quotation. We review transaction volume, industry, software in use and the state of prior-period records, then issue a written quotation.
- Contract and handover. The service contract and confidentiality terms are signed, and the digital signature, e-invoice account and prior records are transferred.
- Opening review. Prior-period balances and filed returns are checked before the first period is posted, so known issues surface early.
- Monthly cycle. Documents are collected, posted and reconciled; returns are prepared, sent for your approval and filed before the statutory deadline.
- Annual close. Financial statements and finalisation returns are prepared, filed and archived, with support if the tax authority reviews them.
Who it suits
Which companies use accounting outsourcing?
| Company profile | Common problem | What outsourcing changes |
|---|---|---|
| Newly incorporated company | No finance staff; unclear first filing obligations | The compliance calendar starts correctly from the first period |
| Small and medium enterprise | One accountant covering every task, no review | Separate preparer and reviewer at lower total cost |
| Foreign-invested enterprise | Group reporting in English, statutory filing in Vietnamese | One team producing both from the same ledger |
| Representative office | Low volume but full compliance obligations | Compliance maintained without a dedicated hire |
| Company preparing for finance or sale | Records will not withstand due diligence | Books standardised before the buyer or bank arrives |
If prior-year records are incomplete, a review of the historic books is usually carried out before the recurring service begins, so that the opening balances the new cycle relies on are known to be sound.
Fees
How is the fee calculated?
The fee is driven by the number of transactions and source documents per month, adjusted for the industry and the complexity of the business. Á Châu surveys the actual records and issues a written quotation before the contract is signed; there is no single published price, because a trading company with two hundred invoices a month and a services company with fifteen do not carry comparable workloads.
Related services
Services often combined with this one
- Accounting staff outsourcing — place a named accountant inside your own team instead.
- Corporate tax finalisation service — annual CIT and PIT finalisation.
- Tax consulting service — advice on specific tax treatments.
- FDI and transfer pricing tax advisory — related-party documentation for group companies.
Legal basis
Legal basis
- Law on Accounting No. 88/2015/QH13 — accounting principles, records, retention and financial statements.
- Decree 174/2016/ND-CP — conditions for providing accounting services in Vietnam.
- Circular 200/2014/TT-BTC — the corporate accounting regime.
- Circular 133/2016/TT-BTC — the accounting regime for small and medium enterprises.
- Law on Tax Administration No. 38/2019/QH14 — filing deadlines and taxpayer obligations.
- Decree 123/2020/ND-CP and Circular 78/2021/TT-BTC — electronic invoices.
This page is general information current at the date of update. Please check the legislation in force or contact Á Châu before applying it to a specific case.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Updated 4 September 2026.
Get a quotation for outsourced accounting
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