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Transfer pricing FAQs
The ones that come up on almost every first call, answered as directly as we can without knowing your structure.
What is the difference between the two services?
In-house AI workflows means we design agentic AI documentation workflows and deploy them inside your own IT, where your team operates them and your data never leaves your estate. The online platform means the work runs on our system, operated by us, on subscription.
Is this software, or is it an advisory engagement?
Both, deliberately. The platform does the assembly and the running. A transfer pricing specialist reviews what comes out and signs it. You are not buying a licence and then hiring someone to operate it.
When do I hear back after sending an enquiry?
Within 24 to 48 hours. We review the request, work out who should pick it up, and come back to you with either times for a call or a question if we need one thing more before we can answer properly.
Do we have to use all three stages?
No, but the value compounds. Documentation alone still helps, because the file is assembled rather than written. It helps far more when design and implementation are feeding it, because then the file describes work that actually happened rather than work that was described.
What data do you need from us, and how does it get in?
At minimum: the group structure, the list of controlled transactions, accounting data at the level you want to price on, and the functional information behind each transaction. Missing items are requested once and stored against the transaction they support.
Does it connect to our ERP?
The calculations run on accounting data, and how that data arrives is a question for the scoping conversation rather than something to promise on a website. Tell us what you run and we will tell you plainly what is straightforward and what is not.
Who actually reviews the output?
A transfer pricing specialist, named against the deliverable they signed. That record is part of the audit trail, not a marketing claim.
What is AI doing here, exactly?
Drafting and assembly. Pulling structured facts into the right sections, drafting language consistent with the policy, and screening large comparable sets. It is not deciding characterisation, choosing a method, or judging whether a comparable is genuinely comparable. Those are the parts a person signs.
Do you defend an audit, or just prepare the file?
Both. We design, implement, document and defend transfer pricing policies, and audit defence is available as part of the engagement. The system matters more here than anywhere else, because a defence is only as good as the record behind it: the comparables rejected and why, the agreement version in force for the year under review, and the date each fact arrived.
How long does it take to get running?
It depends almost entirely on the state of your existing data and how many jurisdictions are in scope. We would rather scope it against your structure on a call than publish a number that is wrong for most groups.
Do you cover financial transactions?
Intra-group financing is covered through thin capitalisation analysis, interest rate setting and CUP benchmarking for financing, which together address the questions most groups face on intra-group loans, cash pooling and guarantees.
What happens to the work we have already done?
Existing studies, agreements and files are loaded in with their dates in force, so the history is preserved and the refresh cycles are visible. You do not start from an empty system.
