Analysing Optimal Tax Structuring for Acquisition Transactions

A concise, decision-focused programme covering acquisition tax structuring end to end.

📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

In finance the difference between a healthy position on acquisition tax structuring and a dangerous one is often a single assumption. The audit trail behind this aspect of financial and banking practice matters as much as the decision itself. Participants test their assumptions about the financial and banking practice capability against scenarios designed to break weak ones. Participants gain a realistic view of what acquisition tax structuring costs and what it returns. The difficulty is not agreeing that this area of financial and banking practice matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. Organisations that document this strand of financial and banking practice properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for acquisition tax structuring. The course covers the practice within financial and banking practice at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to this aspect of financial and banking practice that would make a visible difference.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Prepare the regulatory submissions arising from acquisition tax structuring.

02

Build the control framework around acquisition tax structuring that an examiner would accept.

03

Apply the relevant accounting and disclosure treatment to acquisition tax structuring.

04

Set acceptance criteria for acquisition tax structuring before work begins rather than after.

05

Assess the current state of acquisition tax structuring against a structured set of criteria rather than impressions.

06

Design the reporting on acquisition tax structuring that reaches decision makers in time to act.

07

Set the minimum documentation for acquisition tax structuring that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.

Who Should Attend

01

Team leaders and supervisors who put acquisition tax structuring into practice day to day.

02

Internal auditors reviewing the controls around acquisition tax structuring.

03

Finance managers reporting on acquisition tax structuring.

04

Board risk committee members overseeing acquisition tax structuring.

05

Officers preparing reports on acquisition tax structuring for boards or oversight committees.

06

Relationship and product managers whose targets depend on acquisition tax structuring.

Course Modules

01

Acquisition tax structuring: regulatory obligation and supervisory expectation

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The control on acquisition tax structuring that looks strong and is not

  • Document the remediation plan for each known weakness in acquisition tax structuring.
  • Benchmark the organisation's acquisition tax structuring against comparable operations.
  • Check the legal and contractual exposure created by acquisition tax structuring.
  • Review the pricing of acquisition tax structuring against the risk being assumed.

Session 2Concentration building quietly inside acquisition tax structuring

  • Verify reconciliation and settlement controls covering acquisition tax structuring.
  • Remove steps in acquisition tax structuring that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Prepare the summary of acquisition tax structuring that senior management will read.
  • Estimate the resource acquisition tax structuring requires to run as designed.
02

Acquisition tax structuring: risk appetite, limits and policy

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Setting a limit on acquisition tax structuring that will actually be respected

  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to acquisition tax structuring will be introduced.
  • Establish the boundary of acquisition tax structuring and record what sits outside it.
  • Check the accounting treatment applied to acquisition tax structuring against current standards.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around acquisition tax structuring are understood.

Session 2Reporting acquisition tax structuring so the reader can act on it

  • Establish what evidence demonstrates acquisition tax structuring is under control.
  • Verify six months later that changes to acquisition tax structuring have held.
  • Confirm regulatory reporting on acquisition tax structuring is complete, timely and reconciled.
  • Set the review interval for acquisition tax structuring and who attends.
03

Acquisition tax structuring: stress testing and scenario analysis

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The cost of acquisition tax structuring and how to present it

  • Confirm that those complying with acquisition tax structuring understand why it exists.
  • Confirm reporting on acquisition tax structuring reaches the committee that can act on it.
  • Build the competence framework that supports acquisition tax structuring.
  • Confirm client due diligence standards applied to acquisition tax structuring are current.

Session 2Pricing acquisition tax structuring for the risk actually taken

  • Identify where judgement in acquisition tax structuring is legitimate and where it is not.
  • Prepare the evidence pack demonstrating acquisition tax structuring operated as designed.
  • Translate the appetite for acquisition tax structuring into limits someone monitors daily.
  • Reduce the variation in how acquisition tax structuring is carried out between teams.
04

Acquisition tax structuring: audit evidence and examiner readiness

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The decisions in acquisition tax structuring that cannot be delegated

  • Assess the capital consumed by acquisition tax structuring under current and stressed conditions.
  • State the risk appetite for acquisition tax structuring as a number, not an adjective.
  • Test acquisition tax structuring against a scenario the organisation would rather not model.
  • Set early warning indicators for acquisition tax structuring with defined action thresholds.

Session 2What to measure in acquisition tax structuring and what to ignore

  • Confirm segregation of duties across initiation, approval and settlement of acquisition tax structuring.
  • Confirm that reporting on acquisition tax structuring reaches the people who can act.
  • Identify single points of dependency in acquisition tax structuring and reduce them.
  • Design the exception process for acquisition tax structuring and require a documented rationale.

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Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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