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Perspective built on
professional experience.

C&A Advisory Services brings together finance, accounting and international tax perspectives for businesses and organisations working across markets.

Close to the detail.
Clear on the bigger picture.

We support ongoing finance needs and defined projects, from accounting cleanups and reporting to financial models and acquisition analysis.

Our team includes Chartered Accountants, CPAs and accounting graduates. Each engagement is shaped around the work required, your existing finance arrangements and the decisions you need to make.

Abhishek Sachdeva

Chartered Accountant · Strategic Finance

Abhishek Sachdeva, FCA

Abhishek brings more than 10 years of experience across accounting, audit, financial modeling, FP&A and advisory. His work includes investor and board reporting, venture-fund reporting, model reviews and acquisition analysis.

He has worked with business owners, CFOs, accounting firms, investors and nonprofit organisations across international markets. Earlier, as a Credit Manager at a private bank in India, he managed a portfolio of more than 50 SME borrowers.

His professional experience includes financial analysis and modeling with ERS Advisory, and venture-fund finance and accounting with NZVC.

His professional background also includes work as an authorised partner and consultant for Hobasa, an AI-based financial analysis platform.

He is the author of ABC of Finance: Journey to your Financial Freedom and co-author of How to prepare for Recession?

Qualifications & professional background

Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA). ICAI certificate courses in Forensic Accounting and Fraud Detection (FAFD) and Concurrent Audit of Banks (CCA). B.Com and M.A. in English Literature.

Abhishek also serves as Fractional CFO & Accounting Advisor at Straight Talk CPAs and is a partner at A J A & Co.

ICAI FAFD course · ICAI CCA course

Professional profile

Finance & International Tax Professional

Chahat Kathpal

Chahat is a finance and international tax professional. Her background adds an international tax perspective to C&A’s finance and accounting practice.

Alongside her professional work, she is co-author of How to prepare for Recession?, reflecting her interest in helping readers understand financial uncertainty and prepare for changing economic conditions.

Explore books & writing

Working with your finance environment.

Accounting & systems

QBO, Xero, Zoho Books, Odoo and Acumatica. Cleanups, reconciliations, opening balances and reporting structures.

Models & reporting

Excel and Fathom. Driver-based plans, scenarios, management reporting and performance analysis.

Business & operational data

Stripe, Shopify, Amazon Seller Central and Booker. Connecting operational records to revenue, margins and cash.

Professional collaboration

Working alongside CFOs, accounting firms and existing finance teams, with tax and legal advisers involved where the engagement requires it.

Let’s start with the work you need.

Share a little about your organisation, the accounting issue or decision ahead, and your timeline. We can agree the right scope before work begins.