Services
Our core business is focused on providing a comprehensive service package to German subsidiaries of foreign corporations. This full-service concept encompasses all aspects of the following:
Company foundation/Market entry
- Establishment of German subsidiaries
- Assistance entering the German market (domicile, bank account opening, recruitment, visas, insurance, etc.)
- Tax registration and structuring
- Full M&A support (targets, due diligence, sales negotiations, post-merger integration)
Payroll
- Pay slips, for locals as well as expatriates
- Advice in wage tax and social security matters as well as related audits
- Cross-border advice
- Structuring of electronic personnel files
- Payment services
Financial bookkeeping/Annual financial statements
- Financial bookkeeping and reporting, optionally with client’s own accounting software
- Review of travel expense reports
- Cost accounting
- Review of client-prepared bookkeeping
- Accounting-related advice
- Preparation of financial statements according to German commercial GAAP
- International accounting: IFRS, US GAAP
- Consolidated financial statements
- Disclosure
Tax advice
- Tax advisory services
- Tax exemption certificates (dividends, royalties)
- Full support and advice during tax field audits
- Preparation of tax declarations and tax balance sheets
- Restructuring and merger of companies and corporate groups
- Tax due diligence
- Structuring and documentation of transfer pricing
- Income tax and value-added tax advice in cross-border transactions
- Advisory services for permanent establishments/branches of foreign companies
- Advice in customs matters
Real Estate
- Determination of taxable income and tax declarations for entities subject to unlimited and limited tax obligation
- Tax advisory services, including value-added tax
- Full tax audit support
- Financial bookkeeping, cost accounting, payment services and reporting
- Review of client-prepared/property manager-prepared bookkeeping
- Compilation of subledgers for rental income, OPEX and CAPEX
- Preparation of financial statements according to German commercial and tax GAAP
- Coordination of property managers
Auditing
- Statutory and voluntary audits/reviews of financial statements
- Special audits/reviews
- Financial due diligence
- Valuation of an enterprise
- Audit-related advice