Solving a taxing
tax issue
Deloitte helps automate a client’s cumbersome tax process.
CONSOLIDATING DATA TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCIES
The Situation
For many organizations, gathering financial data to calculate tax obligations requires working with multiple ERP systems and consolidation tools, which can be time consuming. One Deloitte client, a multinational manufacturing company, needed to prepare, review, and finalize the 10-K footnote disclosure for income taxes within a short time frame. Yet siloed systems and data consolidation challenges had reached an unacceptable time, cost, and resource liability to meet SEC disclosure requirements.
The organization’s highly complex business processes required 12-month estimates for most adjustments with threshold analysis, and they had multiple return-to-extension and return-to-provision cycles. The consolidation tool for financial reporting was outdated, which limited reporting and automation opportunities for consolidating data.
This created challenges each year to close their books and generate their financial statement reporting/disclosures, allowing less time for analysis.
The tax team required a better solution for data gathering, along with more tightly coordinated and efficient tax processes to improve reliability and enable tax teams to focus more on value-add activities such as strategic planning and analysis.
THE SOLVE
STREAMLINING A TAXING TAX PROCESS
The Impact
The overall tax process was streamlined by eliminating redundant activities and analysis. Greater control on end-to-end data gathering, current/deferred provision calculations, dynamic tax consolidation, and journal entries generation significantly improved the efficiency of quarterly and annual financial reporting processes. The client also gained self-sufficiency through self-service tools designed to improve tax systems and processes. The automated process gave employees more time to focus on strategic value-add activities without reducing headcount.
The creation of a standardized consolidation process helped lead to tighter integration with the year-end close using 10- and 12-month actual trial balance data. The automation reduced the risk of error and streamlined the workflow, leading to a more unified process throughout the organization.
Deloitte helped the client improve its tax process by identifying and eliminating unnecessary analysis and activities being performed in a more manual fashion. By automating the process, the client gained data that had greater integrity with greater speed.
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