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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.”
Zabeen Jhumka is a member
of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in
the UK and holds a BSc Honours in Applied Accounting from
Oxford Brookes University and a Diploma in Information Technology
from Oxford Cambridge and RSA. She will be responsible for
the offshore and consulting departments.
“I have worked at KPMG Mauritius
for the last 6 years before joining Lancasters and have acquired
a wide range of experience in the audit and consultancy fields
in several industry sectors such as Hotel, Distribution,
Banking, Retail, Textile, Housing and Construction. I have
been responsible for several audit clients, namely: Munich
Re, Happy World Foods, Maritim Hotel, Apavou Group, AJ Maurel
Construction, New Zealand Milk Mauritius Limited, National
Housing Development Corporation, Mauritius Duty Free Paradise,
Tata Asset Management Private Limited and Indusind International
Holdings Limited.
As a consultant, I was responsible for
system data migration audit and for internal audit at State
Bank of India (Mauritius) Ltd. I am also a specialist in
international and special assignments. For the past two years,
I have performed several audit assignments for European Development
Funds projects in the Indian Ocean region and for International
Planned Parenthood Federation in Senegal.”
 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.''
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