International groups: organization and management
Coordinate your subsidiaries and manage your challenges beyond borders
Whether a foreign group established in France or a French group active internationally: managing several entities requires reconciling the requirements of the parent company with the regulatory and organizational specificities of each subsidiary.
Beyond local obligations, the key is to have reliable financial information and a consistent view of the entire group. A suitable organizational structure facilitates decision-making, manages international operations, and supports the growth of your business.
How to ensure the financial monitoring of subsidiaries of an international group?
Reliable information for a comprehensive view of your activities
Managing an international group relies on the ability to collect, harmonize, and analyze the financial information from its various entities. Reporting, consolidation, and auditing are complementary tools for monitoring the group's performance and meeting the parent company's requirements.
Organize the financial reporting of your subsidiaries
Periodic financial statements, dashboards, budget monitoring, and performance analysis: reporting enables the transmission of information necessary for managing the group to the parent company. Defining common indicators and procedures facilitates the collection of reliable data, tailored to the group's needs and the specific characteristics of each subsidiary.
Consolidate and harmonize the group's accounts
Consolidating accounts allows companies within the consolidation scope to be presented as a single economic entity. This requires ensuring the reliability of subsidiary data, harmonizing accounting information, and making necessary adjustments, taking into account applicable standards and the group's financial requirements.
Ensure the reliability of financial information and control procedures
The review of accounts and the analysis of internal controls help to identify risks and verify the reliability of the financial information provided by the various entities. Depending on applicable obligations, audit engagements or statutory audits may also be required, in compliance with professional and independence standards.
What challenges should be anticipated in the operations of an international group?
Intra-group taxation, acquisitions and restructurings
The relationships between companies within an international group and its growth operations can raise specific accounting, tax, and financial issues. Analyzing these relationships is essential to anticipating the consequences of strategic decisions and complying with applicable regulations in different countries.
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Mastering the taxation of intragroup transactions
Financial and commercial transactions between companies within the same group must comply with the tax rules applicable in the different countries. Transfer pricing is a significant issue: the terms of intra-group transactions must be analyzed in light of the applicable tax rules . Analyzing existing flows and practices helps identify tax risks and documentation requirements, including the preparation of specific documentation when required.
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Preparing for acquisitions, disposals and restructurings
Acquisition, disposal, equity investment, or restructuring: these operations require analyzing the financial situation of the companies involved, valuing the companies or securities, and identifying risks. Preliminary due diligence and analysis of the accounting and tax implications help inform the group's decisions, in coordination with the various advisors involved.
How to organize the financial management of an international group?
Beyond reporting and consolidation, financial management relies on tools that allow the group to anticipate its needs: forecasts, cash flow monitoring, profitability analysis and budget control.
Their implementation requires efficient flow of information between subsidiaries and the parent company, as well as indicators adapted to the objectives and specificities of each entity.
Common tools to track the performance of your entities
Expertise at the service of your international organization
An international culture, complementary skills
Each international group has its own organization, working methods and reporting and management requirements.
Historically developed within FIDAG, our international culture allows us to understand these specificities and offer tailored support to multicultural organizations. Our multilingual teams work closely with finance departments, local teams, parent companies, and various stakeholders across the group. This close collaboration facilitates communication, understanding of the challenges, and coordination of projects.
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Monitoring your subsidiaries, consolidation, reporting, intra-group taxation or growth operation: our teams support you in the management and development of your group, in France and internationally.