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Certified Chinese Financial Statements Translation

eVerbary translates your Chinese financial statements into English for $24.95 per page with no word cap, by a professional human translator, with a signed certification. Most orders are delivered within a few hours. Accepted by USCIS and by US universities, colleges and schools, or your money back.

The five parts of a Chinese set of statements

Chinese companies report under the Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises (企业会计准则, ASBE or CAS) issued by the Ministry of Finance. Standard No. 30 defines a full set as five parts: the balance sheet (资产负债表), the income statement (利润表), the cash flow statement (现金流量表), the statement of changes in owners' equity (所有者权益变动表) and the notes (附注). Each is translated under its own heading, line by line, with the current-year and prior-year columns kept side by side as printed.

Under the Accounting Law the fiscal year is the calendar year, 1 January to 31 December, and the books are kept in renminbi. A company that trades mainly in another currency may keep its books in that currency, but its reports are converted into renminbi. The unit line at the top of each table (单位：元, or 万元 for ten thousands of yuan) is translated exactly, because a figure read in the wrong unit is wrong by a factor of ten thousand.

Signatures, seals and the audit report

The Accounting Law requires the statements to be signed and sealed by the head of the company, the person in charge of accounting and the head of the accounting department, and by the chief accountant where there is one. We translate each name and each seal, including the round company seal, and we describe a seal we cannot read rather than guess at what it says.

Audited statements come with an audit report (审计报告) from an accounting firm (会计师事务所). It carries the signatures and seals of the certified public accountants and the firm's name, address and seal, and its opinion paragraph, for example an unqualified opinion (无保留意见), is translated word for word. Reports filed on the Ministry of Finance's supervision platform for CPAs carry a verification code that anyone can check there; we translate the code exactly.

The public annual report, and why US reviewers ask

Every company files an annual report between 1 January and 30 June through the national enterprise credit information publicity system (国家企业信用信息公示系统). The financial items in it (total assets, liabilities, revenue, profit, tax paid) are published only if the company chooses, so a public extract often shows none of them. The audited statements from the company itself are usually the evidence a US reviewer needs; the extract and the business license support them.

For an EB-5 petition, 8 CFR 204.6(j)(3) lists foreign business registration records and tax returns filed within five years in any country. Statements also support E-2 and L-1 files and US lenders. Every figure stays in renminbi as printed: we do not convert currency, restate under US GAAP or audit anything. See also bank statements, articles of incorporation, financial statements and our Chinese page.

What USCIS requires

Under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), a foreign-language document must be accompanied by a complete English translation and the translator's certification that it is accurate. Every seal, stamp and marginal note is part of the document, so every one is translated.

State agencies set their own rules — see government agencies — and what our certification states is on this page.

How it works

Upload a photo or a scan of your document, pick the language pair and check out online. You never have to mail originals: a legible copy is all we need.

A professional human translator, never machine translation, translates the document word for word and mirrors the layout of the original. Every certified translation ships with a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy that meets the requirements of USCIS, courts and universities.

Your translation is delivered digitally, usually within 24 hours for documents of one to three pages, and same-day delivery is available. If anything needs adjusting, we revise it.

Certified vs. standard translation

A certified translation is a word-for-word translation accompanied by a signed statement attesting to its accuracy and completeness. It is what official bodies require: USCIS, courts, universities and government agencies. Certified translations are $24.95 per page, where one sheet of your document is one page, with no word cap.

A standard translation is the same professional human translation without the certificate, for when you only need to understand the content or for internal or informal use. It is billed at the same $24.95 per page with no word cap.

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