I am a certified translator with the UK Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI) (Membership number 00024532), a Chartered Linguist with the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) (CIOL number: 72852), and a member of the American Translators Association (ATA) (Member number: 273323).
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Company accounts prepared in China — the 财务报表, with or without an accompanying 审计报告 — need a certified English translation whenever a UK reader has to rely on them: a bank opening an account for your new UK subsidiary, an accountant or investor carrying out due diligence, a solicitor preparing a share transfer, a procurement team assessing a tender, or a court in disclosure. I am an ITI-certified Chinese-to-English translator working from mainland Chinese financial reporting into UK English. £30 per page (250 words to a page), 24-hour standard turnaround, delivered as a signed PDF with a statement of accuracy. Notarisation can be added if the receiving party asks for it.
A full Chinese reporting package is more than a balance sheet. What normally lands in my inbox is some combination of:
The audit report carries its own apparatus: the 会计师事务所 letterhead, the opinion paragraph, two 注册会计师 signatures with their CPA practising certificate numbers, the firm’s business licence number, the firm’s round seal, and a date. The statements themselves are commonly stamped with the company 公章 and a 财务专用章, and signed by the 法定代表人, the person in charge of accounting and the chief accountant. All of that gets rendered and described in position, because a due-diligence reader treats an unsigned or unsealed set very differently from a sealed one.
Two things cause more trouble in these files than anything else. The first is units. A Chinese table headed 单位：元 means the figures are in yuan; 单位：万元 means they are in units of ten thousand yuan, so 1,250.00 is twelve and a half million. I carry the unit note across prominently and I do not silently multiply the figures out, because restating numbers is not translating them. The second is chart-of-accounts vocabulary that has no clean UK equivalent, because Chinese statutory accounts follow the Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises rather than UK GAAP or IFRS. Captions such as 实收资本, 资本公积, 盈余公积, 未分配利润, 其他应收款 and 应付职工薪酬 are translated as what they say, with the Chinese retained where it helps a reader match a line item back to the original, and never recharacterised into a UK caption that carries different meaning. I also check that subtotals and cross-footing in the English tie to the original, that 期初/期末 columns are not transposed, and that the company name is spelled the way it appears on your UK-facing paperwork.
Send the complete PDF, including the notes and any auditor’s report, and tell me three things: whether the accounts are audited, which company name spelling you use in the UK, and who is going to read the translation. If only part of the package is needed — some banks want the balance sheet and income statement only — say so and I will quote on that subset rather than the whole file. I will come back with a page count, a price and a delivery time before any work starts, and revisions are included if your accountant wants a caption worded differently once they have read it.
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No. Translation and conversion are separate jobs, and only the first one is mine. Chinese statutory accounts follow the Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises, so a caption like 资本公积 is translated as capital reserve rather than mapped onto the nearest UK equivalent, and the figures are left exactly as reported. If your UK accountant needs the accounts converted to IFRS or UK GAAP, they work from my translation. Blending the two would produce a document that is neither a faithful translation nor a proper restatement, and a careful reader would spot it.
I keep it, translate it as an explicit note on the table (figures in ten thousands of RMB), and leave the numbers as printed. It is the most common way these translations go wrong: a translator multiplies 1,250.00 out to 12,500,000 to be helpful, and the English no longer matches the Chinese page beside it. Reproducing the unit heading keeps the two documents aligned and puts the reader on notice. If you would like a separate schedule showing the figures expanded to yuan, that can be supplied alongside, clearly marked as not part of the certified translation.
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Our rates vary depending on the complexity and length of the document as well as the required turnaround time. We provide a free, no-obligation quote upon reviewing your document, ensuring that you know exactly what the translation will cost before proceeding.
The number of pages for certified translations is determined by the total word count of the document. A single page is considered to be 250 words or fewer, including any numerical data.
If a page exceeds 250 words, we will adjust the calculation accordingly based on the word count. At that point, you will need to request a quote from us.
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The process begins with you sending us a scan or a clear photograph of your document. We then translate the document and provide a certification statement that attests to the accuracy of the translation and the qualifications of the translator. The certified translation is then stamped with our official seal and mailed to you.
Yes, if you send it. The 审计报告 is often the part a UK bank or investor reads first, and it needs the opinion paragraph rendered precisely, plus the accounting firm’s name, the two registered CPA names, their practising certificate numbers and the date. Signatures written in Chinese characters are transliterated into pinyin and marked as signatures, and the firm’s red seal is described where it sits rather than left out. I do not verify that the auditor is registered — that is a check the receiving party makes.
Yours, provided you tell me what it is. Chinese company names can be rendered several defensible ways, and the version that matters is the one already on your UK contracts, your Companies House filing or your bank mandate. Send me the exact spelling with the quote request and I will use it throughout, adding the Chinese name in brackets on first appearance so the reader can tie the English back to the seal on the page. Without that instruction I transliterate consistently and flag the choice in a translator’s note.
If you still have questions that are not covered here, feel free to reach out to me directly.