Our Service
Three practices, one goal: a decision that holds. Valuation informs it, corporate service governs it, technology advisory instruments it.
A single decision can hold a company together or pull it apart — whether to buy, to sign, to file, to trust a control or rebuild it. However it ends, the decision will rest on something: a number, a control, a system. And someone will have to stand behind it.
Ascent Partners is a decision-support firm. Three lines of business — valuation, corporate service, technology advisory — serve one goal: a decision that holds.
One goal
Decision support means pairing the knowledge a decision needs — valuation, risk, analytics — with the implementation that makes it hold: controls, tooling, reporting. Knowledge without implementation changes nothing; implementation without judgement goes nowhere. Held together, they are what let a company decide well.
The standard, and beyond it
Our work is grounded in the standards a board, an auditor and a regulator already trust. Valuation is built on IVS 2025 and IFRS 13, with IFRS 9 / HKFRS 9 for instruments, IFRS 3 and IAS 36 for business combinations and impairment, ASC 805 / ASC 350 where US GAAP applies, and HKAS 40 / HKAS 16 for property. Corporate service is grounded in the Corporate Governance Code (Code Provision D.2.2) and the Hong Kong Listing Rules, extending to TCFD and IFRS S1–S2 where disclosure demands it. Technology advisory builds on the FINCAD Analytics Suite (part of Numerix), whose pricing and risk methodologies cite IVS 2025 and IFRS 13.
But a standard sets a floor, not a destination. It tells you the minimum a number or a control must satisfy; it cannot tell you whether the decision it serves will survive the room it is shown in. So every engagement is led by a qualified director and reviewed for independence, and every basis, method and assumption is stated plainly enough to be challenged. That is what going beyond the standard looks like.
Three lines of business
- Valuation — the number that informs the decision: a claim about the future, made defensible under IVS 2025 and IFRS 13.
- Corporate Service — the risk and controls that make it hold: governance, enterprise risk, internal audit and compliance, grounded in the Corporate Governance Code and the Listing Rules.
- Technology Advisory — the analytics that make it hold: automation and pricing proven by prototype, with FINCAD (Numerix) output citing IVS 2025 and IFRS 13.
How we work
The method is the same for all three. Since 2008 the firm has worked this way for more than 400 corporations across Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Singapore: scope the decision, bring the discipline it needs, put it into practice, and submit the result to an independent review.
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- Bring the knowledge
- Test the assumptions
- Put it into practice
- Independent review
Meet the team behind this work
Different disciplines, one question: when the decision reaches the room it was made for — the board, the auditor, the regulator, the counterparty — will it hold?
Three practices, one goal
- Valuation ServiceA valuation is a claim about the future. We make it one you can defend.
- Corporate ServiceRisk, held in balance with growth.
- Technology AdvisoryWe prove whether an automation is worth pursuing — a fast prototype, not an enterprise build.