TRAVEL AGENCIES Both Finangest and Finantur are both consultancies that are referents in this business area. Our experience in the market (since 1987) gives us an added knowledge in everything related to the complicated world of travel agencies, especially in accounting and taxation. Employment counselling must also be looked at in depth, since this business area has a special agreement, and our experience allows us to solve those queries and incidences that arise on a daily basis. We provide our services to almost 100 agencies in a very wide range of business spheres: from points of sales with two employees to big agencies that organise events and incentives, and have 40-50 workers. This allows us to have a good perspective on this business area. Our goal is to ADVISE travel agencies. This means that one of the necessary conditions is that the travel agency has both administrators and computer software that links the commercial management of sales and reservations with an accounting application. We consider that, the agency’s control, the agency’s task becomes tremendously difficult without this tool. COOPERATIONS WITH ASSOCIATIONS AND GROUPS We cooperate with several associations (UCAVE and AUSA), and management groups (UNIDA and GEA). We carry out different assessment tasks and taxation and accounting trainings. TRAINING Even though our primary function is not to train people, we can be satisfied to have carried out very successful taxation and accounting seminars and courses which have been attended by more than 400 agencies in the past eight years. We also have the prevision of carrying out different courses for a small number of companies. For these, we will use our new offices, since we have a great continuous demand, and the ones we carry out on an annual basis need a more costly and complicated build-up. IATA- ADVISING SERVICES Regarding IATA, we can conclude that we know in depth how everything related to the following: request for new codes or subsidiaries, general requirements or annual auditing of profit and loss accounts. Our experience shows us that many agencies lack sufficient (or even total) knowledge of the laws, which lead to very costly bank guarantees). MANAGEMENT CONSULTING AND AGENCY SET-UP Lastly, we would like to insist on how specialised we have become when it comes to building up a new agency. This process requires very complex procedures, since it is always necessary to obtain a license that is prior to the activity’s start. This is different from many other business areas, where the company’s establishment date is coincident with the start of the business activity. This is yet more complicated: the different regulations in the different autonomous regions make every case specific, which can cause enormous entrance barriers in this business area. Our services comprise anywhere from assessing the agency in its search for a brand name, to all legal procedures such as requesting company name, notary public, tax payments, registry of companies, BORME, statutory books, insurance policies, title/license management, IATA codes, etc. Last but not least, we also aid in inscribing the company in the Inland Revenue and the Social Security, once all procedures are done with. We make a review of the necessary tasks to be done in our Questions and Answers section, although there is a detailed manual of all requirements that can be purchased at a price of 150 EURO (VAT included). We have developed two reference books related to taxation and accounting in travel agencies. Here, we have compressed more than 15 years of our experience. The explanation of these concepts is focused in a very practical way, but still maintains rigorous theoretical standards. These reference books are constantly renewed, and are fully available for our clients, who may access them through the exclusive username provided by us. Nevertheless, those travel agencies that are not our clients may also download the necessary information in their computer by simply following the instructions given by the application. This information is organised by topics. The cost of each search is ONE CREDIT per topic requested, and the payment will be done through the payment gateway. If you would like to purchase the full reference books, you may obtain one for the price of 150 Euro (VAT included). You will need to send us an e-mail to: badalona@finangest.es (or a fax to the following number: (0034) 934640209), indicating the agency’s taxation number and the address. Then, we will send you the requested documents through COD…