Complex transactions, evolving accounting requirements and growing demands on finance teams can put reporting timelines, business decisions and stakeholder confidence at risk. Whether you are preparing for a transaction, working through regulatory requirements, addressing a complex accounting issue or strengthening your finance function, we help you clarify the requirements, manage the immediate challenge and move forward with confidence.
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How we can help
- Transaction accounting
- Office of the CFO
- Disputes and finance events
Transaction accounting and deal advisory support
Support across acquisitions, divestitures, Initial Public Offerings (“IPOs”) and other capital markets events, ensuring accounting clarity, reporting readiness, and deal execution certainty.
Complex transactions often introduce accounting challenges that can affect value, timing, and execution. We can help organizations understand financial reporting implications, meet transaction deadlines, and deliver decision-ready insights.
Contact us when a transaction is on the horizon – or already underway:
- You are preparing for an IPO or other capital markets event and need readiness assessments, execution support, financial reporting, or disclosures.
- You are acquiring, divesting, or restructuring a business and need accounting due diligence, purchase price allocation, acquisition accounting, or opening balance sheet preparation.
- You need carve-out, pro forma, or first-time financial statements to meet transaction requirements and keep timelines on track.
- Working capital, debt agreements, or complex accounting matters are affecting negotiations or deal value and require clear analysis and practical guidance.
- You are integrating or separating a business and need Day 1 finance execution, consolidation, GAAP conversion, or scalable finance support.
Office of the CFO
Delivering scalable finance operations and reporting capabilities to support growth, transactions, and ongoing performance.
Organizations often face challenges maintaining efficient, reliable finance operations – especially during periods of growth, transformation, or transaction activity. We work as an extension of your finance team, providing flexible, scalable support that strengthens reporting, improves governance, and enhances decision-making in line with your organization’s size, complexity, and growth trajectory.
Contact us when your finance function needs to scale, stabilize, or improve:
- Your close and reporting processes are manual, slow, fragmented, or inconsistent and need stronger financial reporting, consolidation, controllership, or process optimization.
- Growth or transaction activity has outpaced your team’s capacity and you need flexible support through fractional leadership, loan staff, or an outsourced finance team.
- You need financial statements, MD&A, or first-time reporting prepared without adding permanent headcount.
- You want to outsource all or part of the finance function, including bookkeeping and day-to-day finance operations.
- Governance, controls, or audit readiness need strengthening to support the organization’s next stage of growth.
Disputes and finance events
Helping organizations manage accounting complexity during disputes, investigations, and transaction execution events.
Disputes and high-stakes transactions often require rigorous financial analysis and clear accounting positions. We support organizations through complex situations where financial outcomes impact negotiations, litigation, and deal execution.
Contact us early when a dispute or finance event could affect value or outcomes:
- A working capital, earn-out, contractual, or transaction-related dispute is emerging and the financial issues need to be analyzed and quantified.
- Accounting positions or financial exposures are affecting negotiations or deal outcomes and require an independent, evidence-based assessment.
- An arbitration, investigation, or court proceeding is underway and you need accounting analysis, expert evidence, or litigation advisory support.
- A financial reporting issue may require a restatement and you need to assess the implications and determine the appropriate response.
- The matter requires an independent arbitrator with GAAP or IFRS expertise to resolve complex accounting questions.
Insights
Frequently asked questions
Organizations typically engage KPMG’s Accounting Advisory Services team when executing a transaction, facing complex or judgment-heavy accounting issues, preparing for regulatory or financial reporting scrutiny, or transforming or scaling their finance function. We are often brought in when accounting and reporting requirements have the potential to impact timelines, outcomes, or stakeholder confidence.
Audit provides independent assurance over financial statements, while Transaction Services focuses on financial due diligence and deal evaluation. Accounting Advisory supports the accounting and financial reporting aspects of complex situations, particularly during transactions, regulatory change, and finance transformation. It works alongside deal teams to ensure financial reporting requirements—such as purchase price allocation, carve-out financials, and disclosures—are addressed throughout the transaction lifecycle, helping organizations avoid delays and maintain clarity with stakeholders.
KPMG’s Accounting Advisory Services team combines deep technical accounting expertise with practical industry experience supporting transactions, finance transformation, and ongoing operations. We work alongside Deal Advisory, Tax, and Consulting teams to deliver integrated support across the full business lifecycle—from transaction execution through to financial reporting and operational delivery—helping organizations navigate complexity and deliver outcomes that stand up to scrutiny from auditors, regulators, and stakeholders.
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Elliot Marer
Partner - National Accounting Advisory Services Leader and National Industry Leader for Consumer & Retail
Toronto
KPMG Canada
