American Standard begins with the unmatched legacy of quality and innovation that has lasted for more than 150 years. It is this tradition of quality and innovation that puts it in three out of five homes in America, as well as, countless hotels, airports, and stadiums. American Standard provides the style and performance that fit perfectly into life, wherever that may be. Every product it makes is designed to meet the unique needs of consumers and trade partners all over the world. At American Standard, innovation never stops, and ingenuity never ceases.

Bertelsmann AG, a famous German Company with 190 years' history, has operations in 63 countries with more than 97 thousand employees. Bertelsmann AG owns six sub-groups, which are: Direct Group, with 55 million members over the world; RTL Group, the No. 1 European TV, radio and production company; Penguin Random House, the world's largest book-publishing group; Gruner + Jahr, Europe's biggest magazine publisher; BMG, the No. 1 American record publisher; and Arvato, the biggest European media service supplier. As an internationalized media Group, Bertelsmann produces, serves and markets media through its club and online business and has realized € 20.169 billion revenue in 2023, which made it one of the leaders in the market.

Bi-link is a global mechanical component supplier with expertise in metal stamping, injection moulding and value added services. It was established in Chicago in 1961. With its global locations, top manufacturing infrastructure and TS Certification, Bi-Link brings a unique value-proposition to the Automotive Industry. Bi-Link’s current engineering process links its global technical resources and its wholly owned facilities enable itself to establish common, global systems and procedures that implement company wide quality.

With a multi-format network of more than 14000 stores in more than 40 countries, the Carrefour Group is one of the world leaders in food commerce. Carrefour is a leading hypermarket chain selling a wide range of household grocery products ranging from frozen goods and fresh products to textiles, garments and shoes, as well as electrical goods such as home kitchen items and audio-visual appliances. Carrefour is widely recognized as a convenient one-stop shopping centre that caters to a mix of consumers from housewives to students and working professionals. It leverages expertise and strengths to create value, which is shared among customers, employees, shareholders, partners and suppliers.

Established in 1982, and listed on the NYSE as CY, Cypress Semiconductor solutions are at the heart of any system that is built to perform: consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Leveraging a strong commitment to customer service and performance-based process and manufacturing expertise, Cypress is the industry leader of programmable mixed-signal arrays.

Heineken was established in Amsterdam in 1863. As an international first-line brand, Heineken is not only the second largest beer producer, but also the largest beer exporter in the world. Through the proper combination of strategies, such as localizing production, strong export emphasis, and granting local franchise rights, Heineken makes its products popular in more than 170 countries.

Lucite International is a global leader in the design, development and manufacture of acrylic-based products. It is the world's number one supplier of MMA, the essential ingredient for the global acrylics market. With 14 global manufacturing sites and 2000 dedicated personnel, it generates an annual revenue of US$1.5 billion and stays the leader in methacrylates, with 25% market share. Lucite International searches for enhanced quality, better performance, choice and flexibility and this applies equally to their development of existing products and totally new applications.

McDonald's is the leading global foodservice retailer with more than 40,000 local restaurants serving 69 million people in more than 100 countries each day. More than 70% of McDonald's restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local people. McDonald's serves the world some of its favorite foods - World Famous French Fries, Big Mac, Chicken McNuggets and Egg McMuffin. The strong foundation that its founder Ray Kroc built continues today with McDonald's vision and the commitment of their talented executives to keep the shine on McDonald's arches for years to come.

The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. markets more than 10,000 quality products under a large portfolio of brands. About one third of the Company sales come from skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products introduced within the past three years. Thousands of its employees at 15 manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe are dedicated to ensuring that these products are made with the most sophisticated technology and the highest standards of quality.

Victorinox China Limited (VCN), invested by Victorinox Cutlery Company (VCH) and Victorinox Hong Kong Limited (VHK), was founded in Shanghai in February 2005. VCH is the largest cutlery manufacturer in Europe. Since its first delivery of the Soldier’s Knives to the Swiss Army in early 1890’s, Victorinox has been famous for its "Original Swiss Army Knife"all over the world. Today Victorinox has more than 1400 employees around the world, owns subsidiaries in no less than 10 countries, and provides products and services to more than 100 nations and territories. Victorinox China Limited is responsible for the marketing and sales of Victorinox products in China. The main product lines include pocket tools, travel gear, watches, and kitchen knives.

Yves Rocher Group was created in France in 1958. It is a world leader in botanical beauty care, affirming its status as one of the world‘s foremost brands of plant-based beauty care products. Yves Rocher has over 15,000 employees worldwide. With booming expansion recent years, YR Group generates more than €2.2 billion sales annually in the world. The Yves Rocher–Institute of France is aimed at strengthening the relationship between nature and humankind through educational activities.

CFO Services(1):

1. Client background: Company A is a market leader in retailing sector in mainland China. After several private placements with worldwide financial investors, including one of the top 3 investment banks in the world, the Company is now preparing for its Initial Public Offering (“IPO”) in overseas capital market in late 2008 or early 2009. Therefore, the Company needs more professional management team in finance to improve its overall corporate governance, internal control over financial reporting and integration between finance department and other operation teams.

2. Our services cover:
   - Help the company enhance the financial reporting and internal control functions of the finance department;
   - Help the company set up and implement necessary financial analysis functions and a series of management reports to facilitate management's decision-making in business development; and
   - Help the company optimize its internal information system, standardize operation procedures to ensure the Company’s fast and healthy business expansion.

3. After service: With Smount team (Smount provided both CFO services and Accounting Restructuring services in compliance with IPO requirements), the Company is able to accelerate its IPO progress, together with its planned business expansion speed, to take over more market shares.

CFO Services(2):

1. Client background: Company B is an overseas retailing company, which engages in the sales of a famous U.S. sports brand. Since 2007, the Company has commenced to build up a retailing network in China.

2. Our services cover:
   - Help the Company enhance the accounting and internal control functions of the finance department;
   - Help the Company set up and implement necessary financial analysis functions and a series of management reports to facilitate management's decision-making;
   - Help the Company set up and implement a comprehensive budgeting system- to better integrate the Company's resources .

3. After service: With a more efficient management team and useful analytical tools, the Company is able to allocate its resources more appropriately for a faster business development, together with a better control of its assets on hand. With SMOUNT's help, the Company achieved its business expansion target in 2007. And now, SMOUNT is acting as the Company’s long-term Financial Advisor.

Acted as Finance Department to Takeover All Financial Functions (1):

1. Client background: Company C was founded in France in 1958 where the Company is the market leader in botanical beauty care, affirming its status as one of the world's foremost brands of plant-based beauty care products. In 2004 the Company came to China for its local production, purchase and sales.

2. SMOUNT has provided financial outsourcing services to this company for over 3 years. And, the services include:
   - Monthly bookkeeping and preparation of financial statements for both PRC statutory filing and group reporting purposes;
   - Help the Company supervise the daily operations of its logistic service provider and retailing stores, with outputs like monthly inventory movement report and sales report;
   - Help the Company in the handling of tax-related matters, which include monthly tax declaration, application and extension of its general VAT taxpayer position, expatriate's Individual Income Tax ("IIT") planning and filing etc.;
   - Represent on behalf of the Company in government relationship and communication, which includes annual filing of enterprise income taxes, annual reporting to government agencies/departments etc.

3. After service: Company C achieved tremendous growth, from zero to 13 branches in Shanghai, Beijing and Wuxi by the end of 2007, with total revenue over RMB1.0 million a month.

Acted as Finance Department to Takeover All Financial Functions (2):

1. Client background: Company D is a NYSE listed company which engages in the designing and manufacturing of semiconductor products.

2. Our services include:
   - Help the Company in handling of daily cash disbursements, payroll calculation and Individual Income Tax ("IIT") filing etc.
   - Monthly bookkeeping and preparation of financial statements for both PRC statutory filing and US group reporting purposes;
   - Represent on behalf of the Company in tax-related matters, which include monthly tax declaration, tax advisory services on and Corporate Taxes etc.; and
   - Represent on behalf of the Company in government relationship and communications, which include the open or liquidation of any of its subsidiary, representative offices in mainland China.

3. After service: SMOUNT is now acting as the national service provider in Finance for the Company. And, as a result, the Company was able to grow rapidly from 2 representative offices to 5 legal entities in mainland China, due to its more focus able to be spent on the development of core business in China.