Software Business in the Middle East

I thought it’s only software industry has issues with how much to charge for a product. But it seems accounting has the same issue.

To move our company to another Free Zone, we would close first our old company in Dubai Internet City. One of the condition for company closure is to get audit letter that we do not have debts and other issues that might prevent company to be closed.

I asked one accounting firm to send us a quote about how much the auditing would cost. They said $2,000. I replied it’s too much. They said $1,800. After several e-mail exchange the price went down to $800 the same day.

How those guys set their prices?