Intercompany transactions can help significantly improve the flow of finances and assets. Transfer pricing studies can help business-to-business transfer pricing fall below third-party transfer pricing to avoid unnecessary audits. Accounting for intercompany transactions can help keep records to resolve tax disputes, especially in countries where markets are new and there is little or no regulation for related party transactions. Here are some areas affected by the use of intercompany transactions: COGS: It is easy for a parent company to acquire inventory that is then transferred to subsidiaries. This inventory transfer often occurs without paperwork registered in the parent company, resulting in an overvaluation of the parent company`s inventories and an underestimation of the affiliate`s inventories. This issue can become more complex if the parent company sells stakes to the affiliate. For example, does the parent company sell inventory at acquisition cost or at a premium? If the inventory is sold for a markup, how is the intercompany sale transaction finally eliminated so as not to inflate the sales posted to the banker? When intercompany sales are made, what is the strategic plan to protect all businesses from tax authorities related to sales and/or use taxes? When it comes to a series of credits in one store that are reflected in the fees on another, the ultimate goal is for one to balance another. Both companies must enter the transaction and at the consolidated level of the group, any intercompany transaction must be eliminated so that no profit is recognised until it is achieved through a transaction with an external party. Contact PIASCIK today to find out how accounting for intercompany transactions can benefit you and your business. Your initial consultation is absolutely FREE without you having to commit. Our first class services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

No other international tax firm is as dedicated, experienced and reliable as PIASCIK. In the context of pressure on companies to close the books as soon as possible, 40% of senior finance professionals say that reconciliation difficulties and intercompany agreements delay the reporting process the most, according to FSN Research and its Future of Financial Reporting report. Increasing business complexity, global expansion and the quicksand of intra-group accounting and tax regulations only exacerbate the problem. Simply getting both companies to agree on the cost of the transaction, currency conversions and possible VAT treatments is a difficult climb. A standardized global transfer pricing policy should clearly indicate how a company has met the arm`s length standard, said Todd Izzo, a Deloitte partner specializing in international taxes. Perceived abuses in this area have inspired the recent initiative of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), which has paid more attention to these cross-border pricing rules. As a result, in some cases, the material arm`s length price provision has been changed, and companies are now required to increase their disclosure of intercompany transactions and financial results. The IRS recently issued final regulations that adopt the BEPS recommendation of country-by-country reporting requirements for multinational corporations with annual revenues greater than $850 million (see T.D.

9773). The country-specific rules require annual disclosure of income, income, persons, capital, profits and taxes paid for companies in each tax jurisdiction of residence. Intercompany disposal is a reversal of intercompany balances and transactions in the context of the preparation of consolidated financial statements, where assets and liabilities transferred within the corporate group are to be returned to their original carrying amount and intercompany gains or losses from consolidated financial statements are to be disposed of using a consolidated worksheet or disposal book. . . .