Lancasters is a two partners firm of Chartered Accountants. We decided to establish the firm in order to help the business community find an alternative to the ‘Big 4’ accountancy practices. All the personnel of the firm are from the ‘Big 4’ accountancy firm background. We have a commitment to our clients to provide a very high service level, while providing a personalised service at optimal fees for you.

Our mission is to provide you with a service level achieving excellence to help you invest and harvest. We believe that the economic environment is dynamic and continuously changing. In all fairness, perfection can rarely be achieved, but, excellence can.

Our organisational structure revolutionises the traditional accounting firm structure. We have a ‘real’ flat structure where all of our colleagues have responsibility for their respective clients. Therefore, you will have a direct communication line with the person responsible of your file. This frees up Partner time and enables the Partner in charge to work alongside the team member on high level issues and will always be available for review, advice or meet with you.

Personnel

Panna Jhugroo is a Fellow Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and is a partner with our firm. He will be responsible in main, for our audit and assurance departments. He also looks after the risks issues facing the firm and its quality control.

“I have been in the profession for last 19 years. I have experience from the UK prior to returning to Mauritius. I have worked with KPMG for 9 of the last 12 years with experience in all industry sectors and funding agencies. I have also had industry experience as Finance Manager for Nestle Mauritius. I have been responsible for audits, due diligence, share valuations, training, internal audits, forensic accounting, other types of reporting, project strategic planning during my career. I have been assigned to projects in the Indian Ocean region and Africa. I have had specialised training with KPMG South Africa in Internal Audit Service and Valuations.

The clients I have dealt with include small businesses to large multinationals and institutions such as European Development Fund, USAID, Bank of Mauritius,TOTAL, Banque des Mascareignes, Happy World Foods, First City Bank, Le Meridien, Barclays, Shell (Africa), Equity Aviation, Munich Re, HSBC GIF. For KPMG, my audit files have undergone the firm’s strict quality control procedures from the overseas offices and all my work files always had top review results.”

Satish Bissessur is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the UK and is currently taking his finals for an MBA in finance. He will be responsible for audit assignments.

''I have worked in the finance and audit fields for the last 15 years, 5 of which I have spent at KPMG. I was involved in audits assignments in several industry sectors, such as Hotel, Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing and Energy. I was in charge of audits of State Investment Corporation, Elf Gaz, Apavou Group. I have also worked as an accountant in the education sector.''

Registered firm with FRC (Financial Reporting Council)
Member firm of MIPA (Mauritius Institute of Professional Accountants)