Industry Guides
The Disposal Gain That Doesn’t Exist: Eliminating Intragroup Development Profits When Your DevCo Sells to Your PropCo
James is the group controller for Oakfield Property Group. When he closes the March year-end, Oakfield Developments Ltd — the…
Earn-Outs in Professional Services Acquisitions: Why the Contingent Consideration Accounting Only Exists in Your Group Accounts
Professional services acquisitions are structured differently from most deals. When a corporate group acquires a manufacturing business or a property…
Selling a Machine to Your Own Subsidiary: Why the Disposal Gain Is Fictional and What to Do With It
When a manufacturing group restructures its production capacity, it is common for assets to move between entities. A pressing machine…
Intragroup PPE Construction: Why Your Consolidated Balance Sheet Is Overstating Fixed Assets — and How to Fix It
The group financial controller at a family-owned logistics and construction business had been running the consolidation for three years before…
Why Every Entity Hit Its Target — But Your Consolidated E-commerce P&L Is Down
David is the CFO of a four-entity e-commerce group that sells lifestyle products across the UK, US, EU, and Australia.…
Central Buying Office Stock Eliminations in a Retail Group: Unrealised Profit, Multi-Category Margins, and the NRV Test That Changes at Consolidation
Most retail groups of any scale have separated their buying and sourcing function from their retail operations. The buying office…
The Margin Hidden in Your Closing Stock: Eliminating Unrealised Intercompany Profit in F&B Group Consolidation
When Priya, the group finance director of Latitude Food Group, prepared the December consolidation, the gross margin looked wrong. The…
The Same Building, Counted Twice: Eliminating Ghost Assets From Intragroup Leases in Property Groups
Rachel is the group finance director of Meridian Property Holdings, a group that owns eight commercial properties across separate SPV…
Consolidating an LLP Into a Corporate Group: The Three Questions Your Standard Consolidation Pack Doesn’t Answer
When the group financial controller of a professional services holding company set up the consolidation for the first time after…
The Profit That Isn’t There: Eliminating Unrealised Intercompany Margins in a Manufacturing Group
It was the kind of discrepancy that looks small until you trace it back. The group finance manager at a…