Rating can bring out SWOT analysis of enterprise

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: Infomerics Valuation and Rating has a backing from a well-established company which thrives on information on industry and the corporate world. V. Malik & Associates Private Ltd (VMAPL) which was first incorporated in June 1986, became VMA Infomerics Private Limited (VMAIPL) in 2003.

In the last two years VMAIPL took an initiative to build a business management consultancy profile in information technology, entertainment, communications (ICE) besides its basic education and research interests. The main objective of the company has been to provide services within the global opening of the GATS (WTO) and GAAP Financial Services even while promoting acquisition and resource sharing in international ventures overseas and providing Indian advisory services to promote the disinvestments of state-owned enterprises.

The company also provides services of wealth transfer solutions, dispute analysis and investigations, forensic accounting and investigative services in the areas of financial and cyber fraud, corporate investigations, computer forensics and risk management, asset tracing and recovery of abandoned claims in banking and financial sectors

Among its portfolio of activities are business focus outsourcing like outsourcing in all forms of regulatory compliance services and other types of process-driven activities, eg: accounting and financial services, payroll outsourcing, legal services, IT support and maintenance, assisting businesses with their acquisitions, disposals and restructuring, tax deal structuring, due-diligence, post-transaction integration, contract negotiations and documentation, advice on privatisation, project finance and public-private partnerships, advice on human resources and corporate executive programmes.

According to Vipin Malik, the proprietor of V.K. Malik Associates, the idea is to provide ‘’services in the financial, corporate and business management research segment including sponsorship of young bright scholars for research, enhance the application of Infotech as a tool for modelling in all endeavours of enterprise and strive to improve quality of life, valuation, assurance and business advisory services, e-business services, finance and treasury and securitisation, personnel financial services, investment management consulting, financial, economic and business consulting’’.

The management consultancy of the group currently caters to the areas of advisory services to clients for mergers and acquisitions, forensic accounting, joint ventures, public offerings, financial restructuring, listing assistance, secured assets recovery and restructuring.

When we caught up with Vipin Malik on an email interview, he wrote at length on the small and medium sector and the importance of credit rating which is part of his Group’s business offering.