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Tax Planning
- Reduce current and future tax liabilities
- Uncover tax saving opportunities
- Implement year-end tax-saving strategies
- Provide IRS audit assistance and resolve litigations
Transaction Advisory
- Setup efficient structures for real estate investments
- Guidance and planning for alternative and angel investments
- US – India cross border
- Inheritance
- Repatriation
- Efficient structures for real estate income and investment properties

SME & startups
Business Services
- Small Business Accounting
- Cashflow Management
- Quickbook Services
- Payroll Services
- Audits, Reviews, and Compilations
- Bank Financing
- Business Valuation
- Internal Controls
- New Business Formation
Interim CFO
- Define and implement an agenda that maximizes the value creation
- Capture value in strategic events, capex, M&A, divestitures
- Track KPIs to monitor and manage key value drivers and constraints
- Improve operations to achieve full growth and profitability potential
- Take full ownership of regulatory and tax compliance
Tax Planning
- Optimize legal entity structure for tax efficiency
- Reduce current and future tax liabilities
- Uncover tax saving opportunities
- Implement year-end tax-saving strategies
- Provide IRS audit assistance and resolve litigations
Advisory & Cross border
- Help with financial due diligence (buy-side and sell-side)
- Structure acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, and carve-outs
- Lead M&A valuations, integration and optimization
- Perform tax due diligence and add value with tax-advantaged structures
- Provide IT and operational due diligence to uncover significant issues

Fund Services
Hedge Funds
- Shadow Accounting Services
- Middle Office Services
- Operations and Technology Consulting
Private Funds
- Portfolio Accounting
- LP Reporting
- Operations & Technology Consulting
Digital Transformation
- Collaborate with clients to switch digital strategy to a higher gear
- Help clients navigate use case prioritization, automation, analytics and 2-speed architecture
- Implement and demonstrate value from high impact use cases
- Scale and transition to in-house teams or support as a managed service partner
INTERIM CFO Services
Our CFO services expand beyond core finance activities to strategies that increase the enterprise business value

Digital Transformation in Finance
Digitize processes, and transform big/fast/real-time data into insights for decision support
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Automation of Finance processes with Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
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Advanced Analytics for Finance and Business Operations
- Data visualization and connectivity
- Risk Assessment and Management Using Analytics
- Fraud Detection and Forensic Accounting
Latest Insights
How Linking Strategies to Budgets/Forecasts Boosts Growth and Profitability
In this summary, we will cover: What it takes to have a sustainable strategic budget and forecast The importance of merging business strategies with budgets and forecasts What you need to ask yourself when setting a strategic budget and forecast for your business....
Trend Analysis: The Importance of Performing Trend Analysis on Financials
In this summary, we will cover What is trend analysis? What financial statements can be used to do trend analysis. Why trend analysis is important. Takeaways There are various ways of performing financial statement analysis so as to gauge the financial health of a...
Establishing a Clear Financial Baseline for Transformational Initiative
In this summary, we will cover: Managers in finance function play an important role in a transformation initiative The importance of a financial base for a transformation initiative How to fully realize the benefits of a business transformation Takeaways:...
Our Leadership
Sharmila Damarapati, CPA
Partner – Accounting, Taxes and Advisory
Sharmila has expertized in Accounting, Taxes, External and Internal Audit, Startups and Small Business CFO Services, M&A, Divestitures and Carve-outs, SEC reporting, Accounting Policy and Technical Research, Sarbanes-Oxley, US GAAP, IFRS and Audit Data Analytics.
Before founding DBS Partners, Sharmila worked at Deloitte & Touche LLP serving clients in sectors such as mortgage banking, energy, real estate, investment funds, private equity, consumer products, life sciences, and speciality chemicals.
Sharmila graduated Summa Cum Laude from Rutgers University with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in accounting. She is currently a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the New Jersey Society of CPAs.
Rajesh Damarapati, CFA
Partner – Digital, Transaction Advisory and Startups
Rajesh has 20+ years of experience in financial services and enterprise technology with deep domain expertise in Investment Research, Risk Management, Liquidity Management and Customer Profitability. And, technology expertise in Automation, Analytics Platforms, Realtime Data Pipelines, Enterprise Shared Services, Enterprise Data Management and Systems Integration
Rajesh delivered complex multimillion-dollar programs for companies such as McKinsey & Company, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase
Rajesh has bachelors in engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani and is a CFA® charterholder. He is an investor in several technology startups
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New York, NY 10022
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Princeton, NJ 08540
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