Prakash Uppalapati
41 years of experience in corporate roles and in practice as a cost accountant, management consultant and adviser.
Cost Accounting and Management Consulting, From Business Idea to Boardroom Decision
Uppalapati & Associates LLP is a firm of Cost Accountants and Management Consultants practising in Visakhapatnam since 2005. Our services cover costing, management consulting, virtual CFO support, reporting and related systems for small, medium and large businesses.
Led by three founding partners with a combined 118 years of experience in industry and practice.
What we do for you
From day-to-day accounting to redesigning how your business runs, we work as an extended part of your team.
Management consulting
We study how your business runs, then rebuild the processes, systems and controls that slow it down.
Process Study and Re-Engineering, ERP Consulting, Cost Management Systems, SOPs and Manuals.
Virtual CFO
Senior financial guidance without a full-time hire, for planning, budgeting and the numbers that matter.
Budgeting and Cost Control, Management Review of Results, Support for Growth Decisions.
Audit and assurance
Independent review of your costs, management practices and internal controls, so you and your stakeholders can rely on your numbers.
Cost Audit, Management Audit, Internal Audit.
Accounting and taxation
Maintenance of books and preparation of statements and returns within statutory timelines.
Book-Keeping, Preparation of Financial Statements and Tax Returns, Receivables and Payables Reconciliation, Tax Planning.
Start-up advisory and compliance
We help you set up a new business properly and keep it compliant as it grows.
Start-Up Advisory, Ongoing Compliance.
Decision support systems
Reports your management team can use, designed from transaction to dashboard.
Management Information Systems, Reporting, Analytics.
Industries our partners have worked in
Our partners have held finance and costing roles across these sectors, from small and medium enterprises to large-scale operations.
- Automobile
- Cement
- Chemicals
- Engineering
- EPC
- Ferro alloys
- FMCG
- Pharmaceutical
- Power
- Software
- Renewable energy
- Steel
- Ports
- Shipyards
Our approach
We are professional accountants with decades of experience in large and medium-sized operations, supported by working knowledge of ERP systems, Six Sigma methods and cloud computing.
Experience in operating businesses
Our partners have held finance and costing roles in operating businesses, and this experience shapes the work we do with clients.
Focused engagements
Work is scoped to your objectives, so you can address specific needs without building a large in-house team.
Reviewed work
Accounting requirements are handled through a single process, and work is reviewed before it is delivered.
Flexible capacity
An engagement can begin with one or two people and be extended as the work requires.
Leadership
Uppalapati & Associates is based in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, and is led by Cost and Management Accounting Professionals.
Lakshmana Rao Udandrao
31 years of hands-on techno-commercial experience, building and stabilising systems and processes with strong internal controls.
Sanyasi Rao Kalavalapalli
46 years of experience in costing, budgeting, financial accounting, project management, MIS, controls and standard operating procedures.
Careers
We invite applications from CMA Intermediate qualified candidates seeking articleship, and from candidates seeking junior positions in accounts and audit. Interested candidates may send their CV to ulrao@uppalapatiassociates.com.
Contact us
Working hours
Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm
Address
Uppalapati & Associates LLP3rd Floor, Yahvi, Door No. 2-13-18,
Plot No. MIG 1A-25, Sector 9, MVP Colony,
Visakhapatnam 530 017, Andhra Pradesh, India View on Google Maps