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9 non-core activities you should outsource when expanding to emerging markets

Outsourcing is a popular way for corporations to reduce expenses and increase flexibility. It is also an effective way for expanding to emerging markets.

Grace PatelEditorial Team
May 22, 2017Updated June 22, 2026
Non-core business activities

Common services to outsource when entering emerging markets

Tax reporting

  • Monthly: Corporate Income Tax, Withholding Taxes, Value-Added Tax (VAT), Luxury-Goods Sales Tax (LGST)
  • Annual: Corporate Income Tax, Individual Income Tax, Land and Building Tax

Accounting and payroll

  • Setting up accounts
  • Maintaining general ledger
  • Processing invoices and recording transactions
  • Making payments on behalf of the company
  • Preparation of management accounts (profit and loss, balance sheet, cashflow and income statements)
  • Converting management accounts to an international currency
  • Setting up records of employees’ salaries, wages, bonuses and applicable taxes
  • Health and old age saving insurance calculations
  • Processing payroll payments

Invoicing

Staff augmentation

  • Conducting market research
  • Selling products
  • Finding suppliers or distributors

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Vietnam

Customer support

  • Developed market knowledge and supply chain
  • Relatively low cost of entry
  • Lean business model, ability to adapt to new market conditions quickly
  • Can handle product transportation and warehousing
  • As per agreement, can assist with product marketing
  • Will take care of any possible credit risks arising from product’s buyers

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Local content production

  • Translating labels and packaging
  • Localising website
  • Translating and localising marketing materials

Market research

  • Market size and trends
  • Competition
  • Laws and regulations

Benefits of outsourcing non-core activities when expanding to emerging markets

Focus on your core activities

Spend your energy on doing sales and delivering client work

Reduce the learning curve in new market

Spend less time learning the local regulations and customs

Focus on what you do best

Expand to more markets faster

Since your learning curve is faster you can go to more markets quicker

Reduce costs

You might not have enough work for a full time accountant/HR

Emerhub's outsourced operations model for expanding to emerging markets
Emerhub's outsourced operations model for expanding to emerging markets
  • invoicing and billing
  • staff augmentation
  • undername import
  • distributor search

staff augmentation in our blog

You don’t need to manage the back office team

Flexibility

Scale up/down your operations quickly

Emerhub has been providing full market entry strategy to companies since 2011 and can outsource services in both Vietnam and Indonesia, soon as well in the Philippines. Get in touch with our consultants to outsource any of the above services or ask for advice regarding your field of business by leaving your contacts below.

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