On December 27, Arnau Moranta, director of Ilia Consultoria, participated as a guest on the radio program “Club21. The Club of restless minds“, directed and presented by David Escamilla, from the radio station Ràdio4 (RNE). You can download the entire audio from official website or listen to the edited version from here:

In a relaxed manner, Arnau, a fan of Greek mythology, explained to listeners that the company’s name comes from the Greek place name Ilion, which means Troy in Latin. His daughters also have Greek names.

Ilia Consultoria does the job of a lifetime: tax and labour advice, accounting and legal, but taking advantage of technology that allows us to offer more competitive prices. It is a young and very technological company, where paper has been replaced by the digital archive of all client documentation and accounting is carried out automatically. Sometimes, it is difficult to make a client understand that keeping paper invoices is unnecessary and that they continue to be saved in a physical file. On the other hand, people under 50 see it more clearly. It must also be explained that accounting automation reduces errors by 90%: a person writing numbers on a computer makes much more mistakes than a machine interpreting data through an OCR reader.

“If you enter our office, you will not find any papers.”

This tax consultancy has gained more than 250 clients in the last year and continues to grow exponentially. For every specific volume of new accounts, a new tax advisor joins the Ilia Consultoria team, who acts as a single interlocutor with the client so that a bond of trust is created and it is possible to get to know them better.

“We have happy and loyal customers; we like that.”

The percentage of international clients at Ilia Consultoria is essential because we speak many languages, although most are from here.

Ilia Consultoria serves many companies, especially SMEs, which it wants to improve. Therefore, it works based on ethics and trust, mutual benefit (win-win), and the way to do business is to help someone, adding value to another company and making it work better.

“As we accompany clients in their projects, we are lucky to see many success stories, and the consulting part is the one we like the most.”

They use technology for the most pragmatic jobs, such as accounting or day-to-day jobs. This allows them to have more time and invest these available human resources in consulting, analyzing the client, seeing how the company is doing, achieving tax savings, and doing two small annual audits (one at the end of the first semester and the other at the end of the year) and explain to them what they can do to improve, how to end the year better or optimize taxation. The client values ​​this much more than the accounting part.

“Our added value is the client’s analysis and the improvement proposals that we offer. They value this highly.”

The secret of Ilia Consultoria is continuous learning and never being still, maintaining the restlessness of wanting to improve things and change them.

“It is a common trait of entrepreneurs to try to do things better than how they are being done until now. Otherwise, there is no point in carrying out a project.”
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