Office of the CFO: Transfer Pricing — Intercompany Transactions Solving the Headache
This IDC Perspective explores transfer pricing, otherwise known as intercompany transactions. This is a major pain point in multinational corporations with operations all over the world. This can be time-consuming and a compliance nightmare for the office of the CFO. Here we discuss strategies to lessen the pain for this topic. We also briefly discuss intracompany transactions, which finance loathes and for good reason."Transfer pricing is more common given the merger and acquisition activities we are seeing around the world. This is an area where hours and hours are spent in the office of the CFO but can be simply addressed with a few foundational strategies," says Heather Herbst, research director, Worldwide Office of the CFO at IDC.
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