Finance Advisory

All organisations, Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and finance teams periodically face difficult financial reporting and accounting issues and the current economic climate is increasing the challenges faced by business. It can often take organisations considerable time and resources to sort through these issues.

A highly effective finance function is critical to enable quality business decision-making.

KPMG's Finance Advisory team can help remove much of the uncertainty which can surround the application of accounting standards and reporting practices, and enable relevant commercial outcomes.

Reporting, Governance & Operations

We work with finance teams to develop more effective financial and regulatory reporting systems including:

+ Finance function set-up and process effectiveness
+ Control assessments, remediation and frameworks
+ Regulatory accounting in addition to better business reporting
+ Resource support
+ Audit readiness
+ Development and implementation of digital reporting tools.

IFRS & Deals

We provide finance teams with technical accounting advice under IFRS including:

+ Advising on the impact of merger and acquisition transactions
+ Structuring transactions to achieve commercial and accounting objectives
+ Support for accounting policy and standard changes
+ Implementation of new accounting standards and real-time accounting support.

US Practice Australia

We provide technical accounting and finance function support to companies with their United States and Australia cross-border transactional needs including:

+ US GAAP/IFRS Technical Advisory and Accounting Change services
+ SEC Capital Market readiness services
+ Buy-side and sell-side assistance.

Contact the US Practice Australia team for further information.

Derivatives

We provide derivative accounting and compliance assistance including:

+ Outsourced hedge accounting support
+ Financial management and decision analysis.