Financial Translation Services Singapore

No, and this is an important line for us. Renaming a foreign account heading to its nearest local one is a reporting judgement, not a language one, and that belongs with your accountant. What we do is give the plain meaning of the heading as written, and add a bracket note where the term has no direct match here. Your team then makes the mapping call with full sight of what the original actually said. If you already have an agreed mapping list, send it and we will follow it exactly.

The digits stay exactly as printed, and so does the unit written at the top of the column. Regrouping the numbers would mean recalculating them, and the moment we do that our page stops matching yours. Instead we keep the original and spell the unit out clearly in English, so a reader here knows what scale they are looking at. Same approach for the ten thousand units used in Chinese accounts. Read it once and you can follow it; recalculated, you can never check it.

You hear about it the same day, and nothing is corrected without your say so. The translated page carries the same figures as the original, mismatch included, because the two documents have to agree. Alongside it you get a note pointing at the row. Quite often it turns out to be rounding at source, or a footnote we had not been sent. Either way, better you learn it from us than from the person reviewing your file.

Yes, and you should ask for it. If your original is labelled draft or unaudited, that label is carried through in English, and our certification wording says which version and date we worked from. That protects you if a later restated set reaches the same reader. When the final numbers land, send the marked up version and we only charge for the rows that moved. Nobody should be paying twice for pages that did not change.

Yes. Our certificate confirms that the English matches the document you gave us. It does not claim the statement itself is genuine, and no translator anywhere can promise that. If the reviewer needs proof the statement is real, that has to come from your bank, usually as a stamped copy or a letter. Worth checking which of the two they actually want before you order, because paying for a notary when the reviewer only wanted a bank stamp is a common and avoidable waste.

Tell us at the very start, before the file arrives. We keep the job to a named pair of people, sign whatever undertaking your compliance team uses, and hold the file off any shared folder. If your policy requires a restricted list of who has seen the material, we give you the names for it. We would rather turn down a rush job than move it through more hands than your rules allow.

Your file stays inside our own systems and with our own people. It is not passed to outside vendors and it is not run through free public tools, where anything pasted in can end up stored on a server you have no control over. We keep a copy afterwards only so you can order a reissue, and if you want it deleted on a set date, say so in writing and we will confirm once it is done.

Usually, but the answer sits with that tax office and not with us. Some accept a certified translation on its own. Others want it notarised, and a few want an apostille on top before they will look at it. Tell us the country and what the letter is for, and we will set out the chain they normally ask for. Where we are unsure, we say so and suggest you confirm with them first, because a wrong guess here costs you a filing window.