Multidisciplinary expertise without building a full internal team
Doing Business in Egypt 2026
A Practical Guide to Operating in Egypt
From establishment to daily operation: accounting, tax, payroll, legal, governance and reporting through one coordinated service model.
One point of contact for integrated business compliance
SFA brings accounting, audit, tax, payroll, personnel, corporate and employment legal services and advisory together. This reduces fragmented communication and connects commercial decisions with their financial, tax, legal and operational effects.
We begin with diagnosis, then agree scope, responsibilities, deliverables and deadlines, and build a compliance calendar appropriate to the business size and stage.
10 Benefits of Professional Outsourcing
Lower fixed overhead and clearer service cost
Continuity beyond one employee
More disciplined monthly closing and reporting
Stronger segregation of duties and controls
Better readiness for audit and inspection
Local support for foreign businesses
Faster finance-function launch for startups
Scalable resources as the business changes
More management focus on operations and growth
Investment & Market Entry
- Why invest in Egypt?
- Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE or Morocco: market-entry comparison
- Promising investment sectors in Egypt
- Investment, industrial and logistics zones
- Investment Law No. 72 of 2017 and its amendments
- Foreign company, branch or representative office
- Company formation documents, procedures and expected timing
- Legal forms available to foreign investors
- Financial and tax study before investing
- Financial and tax due diligence
- Profit and dividend repatriation
- Egyptian digital-government services
Accounting & Reporting
- Egyptian Accounting Standards: a practical guide
- Recent amendments to Egyptian Accounting Standards
- Financial-statement presentation under EAS
- Revenue recognition and lease accounting
- Foreign-currency differences
- Impairment, provisions and contingencies
- Related parties and required disclosures
- Consolidated financial statements
- Subsidiaries, associates and joint arrangements
- Business combinations and goodwill
- IFRS 9, IFRS 15 and IFRS 16
- IFRS versus US GAAP
- Reporting packages for foreign parent companies
Audit, Internal Control & Governance
- Egyptian Standards on Auditing and Assurance
- Egyptian versus International Standards on Auditing
- Full audit, limited review and AUP engagements
- Audit readiness and required documents
- Fraud, error and auditor responsibilities
- Materiality, audit risk and going concern
- Subsequent events and management letters
- Internal versus external audit
- Risk-based internal-audit plans
- Internal-control design and segregation of duties
- Corporate and family-business governance
- Boards, audit committees and authority matrices
Tax, Payroll & Compliance
- Corporate tax guide for businesses in Egypt
- Tax Facilitation Laws 5, 6 and 7 of 2025
- Corporate income tax and VAT
- Withholding and collection tax
- Payroll tax and benefits in kind
- E-invoice and e-receipt compliance
- Electronic signature and seal
- Tax inspections, disputes and appeals
- Transfer pricing and related parties
- Imported services and non-residents
- E-commerce and freelancers
- 2026 tax compliance calendar
- Unified payroll-tax system
- Social-insurance compliance and payroll reconciliation