Frequently Asked Questions
What is the story behind launching honest opinion?
We thought of starting this services after a personal experience of one of our founder, who need a medical advise on a minor surgery, Every doctor he met and consulted has its own agenda and no one was interested for the benefit of Patient. We thought that user might have faced same issue when they might be making decisions related to investment, buying a property, Starting a new business. However to whomsoever they might be approaching might not be giving them an honest advise due to obvious conflict of interest. Hence we decided to start such services where we will just provide you an honest opinion and will not indulge in any follow up sale of products or services to avoid any kind of possible conflict of interest or biasedness.
But how you can say other professional are not giving best advise to their client?
We are not claiming that everyone is a cheater there are really good guys, doing wonderful things, however if you see the entire advisory chain system, you will agree when a person have to earn from you there is more chances of biasness. A famous proverb says “ Ghoda Ghass se Dosti karega to khayega kya?” (If Horse becomes friend of Grass then what he will eat). The same point is here the whole ecosystem of free advisory works on selling product or services, which is best for seller but always not best for buyer. If your advisor’s Income depends on follow up sales or services, he can’t be unbiased.
Hence in our services we clearly removed cross sales of any kind of product or services to remove any possible conflict of interest.
Who will be providing consulting to me?
CA, MBA, CS, and Business Advisors who have expertise in particular domain will consult you. In Any case your advisor will have at least 5years + expertise in that relevant domain. We have separate dedicated experts for different domain of advisory.
What will be charges for consulting and Time slot?
We will charge fix 500 Rs. all inclusive for 30 minute consulting slot.
What if my query requires more time?
You can book 2 consulting slots at a time, However we advise you shouldn’t book slot for more then 1 hour and should take follow-up consulting if required. This will help you to get more focused advisory.
Although we might have recommended to take more slot booking to increase our revenue. However our main aim to provide this services to maximum number of people at vary affordable price, and not to just profiteering.
With limited Number of experts on boards currently our aim to reach maximum people to extend this affordable expert advisory.
How I can seek follow up consulting?
The same way you can seek a follow up session by booking appointment. We will try to accommodate you in vary next day session but our TAT is to give you allotment in 48 hours schedule based on availability of slots.
Will I get refund if I want to cancel my appointment?
Yes, You will get full refund, No question asked, provided you intimate us by sending an email to accounts@aktassociates.com at least 4 hours before your scheduled appointment. All refund will be sent to your Paytm accounts. Hence you should have a Paytm app installed. No net banking or imps can be done due to security reasons.
Will I get refund if I am not agreeing with advisory provided to me?
No, as our point is to give you a true guidance, you may choose not to agree with it.
Post advisory; will I get some reference to any service provider from where we can get the work done?
Generally we will not like to recommend any specific brand or service provider to avoid any possible conflict of interest. We will more likely tell you how to choose and from where you can find such services yourself however on your specific request we can guide you, however final call will be yours.
AKT Associates, Itself a service provider for various services, how can you be independent?
To maintain the independent-ness we are obliged not to offer any of our services to any person to whom we have offered our honest opinion services.
How you can call yourself independent, honest or unbiased?
If we are not interest in anything to cross sell you, or to convince you to buy something, When our income does not depends on either you buy that investment, property or tax saving instrument or not. When I don’t expect any other business from you apart from just advising and expressing my opinion It is more likely that we will share truth with you. We can talk hard truth, as there is no commission I am going to earn by misguiding you. I can even ask you to back off from deal if it is in your favor, as my Rs 500 fees is not depending on deal or No deal.
We are not going to recommend any product or company but like a generic medicine we will only give you class, categories and characters of ideal products for you and leave you to decide product, brand and Company.
At last we are leaving at our client to take their stand on our independent-ness, honesty and unbiased-ness. But most of you will accept, if we are working in above mention environment there is natural reason that you will get unbiased opinion.
Why AKT Associates?
Expertise - That Counts
We are handling more than 1500+ successful clients and providing them with services which covers Legal, Technical, Taxation and other business compliance part. That all says a lot on our ways of working and our expertise in the area.
Experience - That Matters
At AKT associates we have been our client’s obvious choice since more than 20 years. For serving you with the best results we use our experience of decades which has exposed us with deep understand.
Efficiency - That reflects in everything
With a strong team which comprises of experts with qualification like CA, CS, MBA & LLB and they will all available with the wholesome result, with dedicated customer service team and support staff. We are always there to execute your work efficiently.
Cost - That saves a Lot
We touch the top position not just because we are the best in what we do but also because we know the value of your time and money. We know the value of your time so all the work by AKT Associates is performed on time and at around 70% less cost in comparison to all the other leading firms of the market that too without compromising on the quality aspect.
Conveniences - That says a Lot
The services of the firm are performed and delivered by using the cutting edge technology which makes the AKT Associates always available & deliver services right in your email. So it doesn’t matter where you are because we are always at your finger tips.
