KPMG's CCS professionals serve clients in a wide range of industries in areas such as royalties, licensing, distribution agreements, advertising and digital content. We understand the complexities and nuances of a range of business contracts, processes and procedures and have been able to help companies recover revenue misstated in self-reporting statements while maintaining and improving relationships with their business partners.

Our services include:

• Royalty compliance — to recover fees, help strengthen licensing relationships and identify opportunities for mitigating risk
• Software end-user license reviews — monitors license compliance for software vendors, leading to increased current and future licensing and maintenance revenue
• Vendor contracts — advises on management of vendor relationships
• Ad agency contract compliance — aims to identify significant cost recoveries or other improvement opportunities
• Reseller and distributor reviews — assists with the enforcement of contracts with channel partners
  
• Digital distribution — assists digital content owners in assessing the completeness and accuracy of self-reporting of content distribution
• Software asset management (SAM) — can include a review of people, process and technology areas against industry standards
• Intellectual property (IP) audits — assistance in assessing and optimizing processes of the IP governance processes throughout different stages of the IP lifecycle

Gaining the full value that is due from contracts is clearly a chief concern for many companies in terms of enhancing income, reducing costs and meeting compliance issues.

KPMG’s Contract Compliance Services team offers:

• Deep industry experience — improving revenue or reducing costs as well as resolving complex relationship and contracting issues.
• An understanding of partner relationships — we work in a non-adversarial way to help business partners understand the terms of their agreements.
• Objectivity and confidentiality — giving reassurance to the third party in a review.
• An established methodology and approach which enables us to focus on your specific environment.
• A global reach — through the network of KPMG member firms in 155 countries, we can provide contract compliance professionals worldwide.

KPMG’s Contract Compliance Services (CCS) professionals can advise on:

• Enhancing returns on investment (ROI)
• Recovering cash from overpricing and overpayments
• Better protection of intellectual property
• Mitigating and managing risks within the extended enterprise
• More effective financial reporting controls
• Improved relationships with key business partners
• Increased confidence in a vendor’s contract compliance process
• Opportunities to enhance contract language