Technical accounting consulting
Providing specialized guidance and knowledge to alleviate complex accounting issues
For optimum profitability, many middle market companies operate lean accounting and finance departments. While daily requirements easily stay on track, specialized issues and significant efforts–like entering into significant transactions, new financial reporting standards implementation, restatements, and preparing to go public––can quickly derail efficiency.
RSM’s technical accounting consulting (TAC) services offer in-depth financial reporting knowledge and objective financial advice for all stages of your business’ life cycle. Our team’s experience is cultivated by strong company finance and deep technical knowledge among a variety of industries. With this breadth of experience, we are able to offer you a unique perspective and help you navigate myriad technical accounting and financial reporting situations.
Full familiarity with the intricacies of your company is the key to our exceptional consulting services. We have a team of professionals within TAC who have diverse industry experience including consumer products, life sciences, industrials, technology, real estate, and financial services. Our TAC team advises and assists a wide range of private and public companies, often multinationals, by supplementing their management team and helping them identify the kind of systems and processes that are required to scale their operation.
RSM technical accounting success stories
RSM helps multinational manufacturing company implement ASC 842
The decentralized global company had more than 450 real estate leases and 3,200 equipment and auto leases in 20 languages and 30-plus currencies. RSM International member firms helped with the lease abstraction process.
Going public on an accelerated timeline with an industrial conglomerate
An RSM client - a multibillion-dollar conglomerate operating in the specialty and industrial construction industries - entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
Consumer products retailer implements ASC 842 with RSM collaboration
National publicly traded retailer with over 200 locations adopted ASC 842 standards within the timeframe and avoided potential risks. RSM assisted the client in achieving compliance and ultimately gaining greater efficiencies.
Expansive and industry-specific technical accounting consulting services
RSM’s technical accounting consultants understand the complexity new accounting standards represent and the significant changes required. Adoption and implementation of new standards offer an incredible opportunity to improve efficiency, enhance information systems and strengthen processes and controls.
Taking a company public or raising capital is complex. RSM’s experienced capital markets team advises privately held companies going public by assisting with technical accounting, financial reporting, and essential regulatory issues.
Accounting for transformative events requires specialized skills. From mergers and acquisitions to carve-outs to restatements, RSM provides assistance to develop accounting infrastructure, review policies and procedures and identify risks.
RSM’s accounting and finance optimization team helps your organization prepare for an audit and ensure you are ready for any diligence or liquidity event at any time. RSM helps create business processes to align financial reporting with operational needs and strategic decision-making. In addition, our team will provide recommendations on key accounting and system requirements, as well as interim outsourced finance support to assist management with the financial reporting process.
We work with our client’s executive team to advise on critical, complex issues that arise during the planning, execution, and ongoing performance evaluation of business initiatives and transformative events. RSM delivers quantified insights through custom analysis to promote operational value as a stand-alone project or managed support on an interim or ongoing basis.
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