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.

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

What does the new reality mean for finance?

It is more critical than ever to have a highly effective finance function enabling quality business decision-making. Our factsheet outlines some of the critical considerations for CFOs.

View the factsheet – COVID-19 and into the new reality (PDF 186KB).
 

How we can help

Whether it is providing tools, improved processes, outsourced capacity or technical expertise, KPMG’s CFO Advisory team works with clients to develop and implement practical advice to a range of complex accounting, financial and regulatory challenges.

We provide Independent Assurance over financial and non-financial information in addition to advisory services as outlined below.

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 and reporting 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.

Derivative – We provide derivative accounting and compliance assistance including:

• outsourced hedge accounting support
• financial management and decision analysis.