Transfer pricing is often talked about solely in a tax accounting context but actually determining transfer price requires the existence of a strategically good budgetary and cost accounting system in managerial reporting. If a company has designed a detailed, adequate cost accounting system, a key precondition for shaping transfer prices has been met, especially when it comes to transactions related to goods and services where a clear cost base is even more important than mark-up.
The need to prepare financial forecasts can arise in various situations. In the artocle we will give examples of some of the most common situations where the company's management has to undertake the preparation of forecasts.
There are always various different factors that might put the brakes on a transaction or cause us to entirely abandon it. Such factors may manifest at any stage of a transaction depending on how transparent the communication between the parties has been during the transaction process.
In the past three years, the business environment has been significantly affected by COVID-19, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, high inflation, ever-rising interest rates, the energy crisis, as well as some instability in the world's banking sector in recent months.