KPMG's CCS professionals are experienced in serving a variety of our firms' clients in a wide range of industries in areas such as royalties, licensing, distribution agreements, advertising, digital content and more. As a result, we understand the complexities and nuances of a range of business contracts, processes and procedures and have been able to help companies recover revenue misstated in self-reporting statements while maintaining and improving relationships with their business partners. 

Our services are as follows:

• Royalty Compliance — aims to recover fees, help strengthen licensing relationships and identify opportunities for mitigating risk.
• Software End-User License Review — monitors license compliance for software vendors, leading to increased current and future licensing and maintenance revenue.
• Vendor Contracts — advises on management of vendor relationships.
• Ad Agency Contract Compliance — aims to identify significant cost recoveries or other improvement opportunities.
• Reseller and Distributor Review — assists with the enforcement of contracts with channel partners.
• Digital Distribution — assists digital content owners in assessing the completeness and accuracy of self-reporting of content distribution.
• Software Asset management (SAM) — can include a review of people, process and technology areas against industry standards.
• Intellectual Property (IP) Audit — assistance in assessing and optimizing processes of the IP governance throughout different stages of the IP lifecycle.

Gaining the full value that is due from contracts is clearly a chief concern for many companies — in terms of enhancing income, reducing costs and meeting S-O 404 compliance issues.

KPMG’s Contract Compliance Services can help with:

• Deep industry experience — improving revenue or reducing costs as well as resolving complex relationship and contracting issues.
• Understanding of partner relationships — we work in a non-adversarial way to help business partners understand the terms of their agreements.
• Objectivity and confidentiality — giving reassurance to the third party in a review.
• An established methodology and approach enables us to focus on your specific environment.
• Global reach — through the network of member firms we can provide contract compliance professionals worldwide.

KPMG’s Contract Compliance Services (CCS) professionals can help our firms’ clients by advising on:

• enhanced return on investment (ROI)
• recovered cash from overpricing and overpayments
• better protection of intellectual property
• mitigating and managing risks within the extended enterprise
• more effective financial reporting controls
• improved relationships with key business partners
• increased confidence in vendor’s contract compliance process
• identified opportunities to enhance contract language
• in-depth industry experience and a dedicated practice