Pranas Accounting Tax & Bookkeeping Services

Prabha Srinivasan, CPA (USA), MBA (USA), ACA, Grad CWA., Tax & Bookkeeping Services

Prabha began her Public Accounting Career in 1996. She has served a diversified clientele throughout her professional career. In addition to working in India, Prabha has worked in the United States for over 12 years with a variety of CPA firms including a Big-4 firm. Prabha moved to India 2006 with the sole edict of helping Kellogg & Andelson, a large regional firm in Southern California, to establish its captive subsidiary in India to provide tax, accounting and bookkeeping support to its clients. She helped grow the professional team to a 60-member-strong group. Prabha not only helped manage the day-to-day operation in Chennai, but also combined Technical Expertise with her Managerial Responsibilities and plays an active role in providing employees with a platform to groom to become full-scope tax and accounting advisers of the future.  

Prabha established Pranas with the intent of providing other firms and clients these services. She continues to service a large book of tax clients primarily in the United States for all their tax consulting, compliance and planning needs. She also services a book of Indian clients consisting primarily of expatriates who are employed in India, either temporarily or indefinitely as her certification and experience in Taxes and Accounting in both India and USA gives clients an opportunity to work with one person for all their tax Planning and compliance needs in both countries. Prabha runs our Chennai operations.

 Mayuri Kulkarni, CPA (USA), ACA, Grad CWA., Financial & Accounting Services

Mayuri has over 14 plus years of diversified experience in the field of audit, accounting and finance. Not only has she worked with Big 4 in India and US but also with small to medium-sized public accounting firms, which gives her a extensive knowledge base and hands on experience of handling audit, review and compilation work from small to large for-profit and non-profit organization. She also has planned, supervised and worked on various benefit plan -401(k) audits, single audits for federal and state agencies, homeowners associations audits, internal control and SOX testing audits in her audit career role from junior auditor to audit manager.

Mayuri has also headed the finance side of various departments of a prominent publicly traded technology company in Austin, Texas, in performing financial forecasting and financial analysis for capital and operating expenses. She has managed complex accounting of revenue recognition, bonus and commission calculation in accordance with operating agreements and contracts. She is knowledgeable about the needs of  management (client) and is able to transform this need into reality by liaising between the management and the consultants in the implementation of ERP – SAP. Mayuri runs our Bangalore operations.

James Walters, CPA (USA), Technical Advisor & Board Member

Mr. Walters has been in public accounting practice since 1975, throughout which he has been involved in all aspects of accounting, business consulting, litigation support and expert witness testimony. James has managed a prominent firm in Los Angeles through the retirement of the first generation and has helped develop many new products and departments. James also started, owned and operated many business in the past and brings an ”owner’s” experience to his consulting. James brings 35 years of specialized expertise in the areas of, Tax Planning, Compliance, Accounting, Asset Protection, System Review, Succession planning, Business growth and profit planning. Jim works out of Los Angeles.

Rajagopalan Srinivasan,FCA, FCMA (UK), ACIS (UK), FCS, CGMA, Technical Advisor & Board Member

Starting his career with a Big 4 audit firm, Mr.Srinivasan has worked in many countries in Asia, Africa and Europe with large MNCs, namely,  British American Tobacco, SmithKline Beecham and the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa  and has also been a staff member of the World Bank and a consultant of the FAO of the United Nations headquartered in Rome, Italy. He has had wide exposure in mergers, corporate restructuring, internal audit, designing of mechanized accounting systems and MIS, critical areas of corporate governance and has been involved in the statutory audits of large corporations. He is now based in Chennai.