At Ascensure, we understand the key challenges that businesses face when preparing financial statements and SEC filings. Resource constraints, ever evolving SEC reporting requirements, complex accounting standards and technical accounting memos are few nuances where expertise is required.
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Compliance
Coordination with global business unit leaders
- Ensure consistent accounting policies across the entire organization.
- Providing regular guidance on accounting issues and IFRS/local GAAP conversions.
- Strengthening controls and compliance procedures.
- Preparing unified reporting packages to be used by local business unit leaders for gathering data requirements and ensuring consistency in the financial reporting.
Consolidate the financial statements of local and foreign business units
Managing transfer pricing and eliminating inter-company transactions
Coordinating with various departments such as legal and tax advisors for accurate reporting.
Compliance with debt covenants and other regulatory requirements
Support for XBRL reporting requirements
Serve as a financial reporting point of contact and quality control reviewer for audit committees
Draft 10k, 10Q including coordinating for MD&A write up
Preparation of “Pay vs. Performance” statements, proxy statements, and other related disclosures
Manage all SEC filings including 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, 20F, Form 4s, S-1, S-3 etc
Correspondence with SEC including drafting SEC comment letters
Audit Support and Readiness
- Ensure your team can manage the audit alongside regular duties.
- Document accounting policies and prepare technical memos for complex accounting transactions.
- Maintain transparent communication with your auditor about the timeline, concerns, and requests.
- Gather and prepare documentation to support audit requests for financial statements, and design and implementation of internal controls.
- Assist with new and existing authoritative pronouncements.
- Collaborate with auditors on documentation requirements.
- Address complex technical accounting issues with external auditors.
- Compile whitepapers and detailed memos on technical topics.
- Prepare financial statements and schedules in an audit-ready format.
- Act as a liaison between management and auditors for a smooth audit process.
- Coordinate and manage your PBC (Provided by Client) list response to auditors.
- Complete SEC/US GAAP disclosure checklists required by auditors.
- Prepare and maintain your trial balance bridge for the audit.
IPO & Capital Market Readiness
- 1 Planning for Your Transaction
- • Audit Support: Transition to PCAOB-Compliant Audit documentation.
• Accounting Standards Conversion: Convert financial reporting standards (Local to U.S. GAAP, U.S. GAAP to IFRS).
• Technical Accounting Memorandums: Prepare memorandums, including robust financial statement disclosures. - 2 Filing Your Registration Statement
- • Drafting the Registration Statement: Assist with MD&A, pro-forma, and selected financial data.
• Regulation S-X Compliance: Prepare compliant financial statements and footnotes.
• Stock Exchange Listing: Assist with listing requirements and trading applications. - 3 Closing on Your Transaction
- • Investor Presentation Decks: Compile accurate and effective deck.
• Corporate Structure and Governance: Provide advisory services.
• SEC Comment Letters: Draft responses.
• Transaction Cost Analysis: Analyze costs incurred in connection with the IPO.
Transaction Advisory
Stock Based Compensation Records & Valuation
• Maintain records of options/RSUs issued.
• Coordinate with the stock transfer agency for regular vesting intervals.
• Prepare quarterly and yearly valuations for stock options/RSUs.
• Prepare technical accounting memos.
• Ensure compliance with financial reporting standards.
Technical Accounting Memo
• Drafting technical accounting memos covering varied topics such as Revenue recognition, Stock based Compensation, Going Concern, Discontinued operations, Lease accounting, Impairment of assets and Business combinations.
• Approach combines technical knowledge with practical insights, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
Lease records and accounting
• Maintain records of operating and finance leases entered by the Company.
• Prepare quarterly and yearly accounting journal entries.
• Prepare technical accounting memos supporting classifications.
• Ensure compliance with financial reporting standards.
Valuation Projects
• Data Collection
• Model Selection
• Assumption Setting
• Calculation
• Review and Validation
• Reporting
• Disclosures
Risk Advisory
- Outsourced Model: Independent, high-impact audits leveraging extensive experience and industry knowledge.
- Co-Sourced Model: Collaborative audits integrating our expertise with your processes.