Accounting advisor

Accounting Advisory Services

At NORD advise, we provide advice and assistance to businesses and audit firms regarding accounting matters and the handling of complex and technical accounting issues. We have extensive experience with various accounting frameworks such as IFRS and the Danish Financial Statements Act. Combined with a commercial and investor relations perspective, we ensure not only compliance with laws and accounting regulations but also that commercial, strategic, and communicative considerations are integrated into accounting decisions.

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 Our Accounting Advisory and Reporting Services

With deep expertise and experience in technical accounting, including IFRS and the Danish Financial Statements Act, as well as sustainability reporting and investor relations, we offer tailored solutions for accounting departments and management.

Our services include, for example, the following:

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Professional Hotline

We offer a professional hotline for accounting services for both businesses and auditors, where we are available for sparring and advice on specific questions and issues you may encounter. Our solution is highly flexible, and you simply call or write with your questions, after which we charge fixed prices.

Depending on your needs, we can arrange a fixed annual price for unlimited support or billing based on actual time spent. We charge per whole quarter-hour, so smaller questions can be handled without it becoming expensive.

IFRS transitions

If you are facing an IFRS conversion or considering transitioning to IFRS, for example, as part of preparing for a company sale, an IPO, etc., we support this and advise on the advantages and disadvantages.

An IFRS conversion under IFRS 1 is a technical exercise that requires extensive experience to ensure an efficient and compliant process, where all respective areas are correctly handled according to the individual standards, while also adhering to and utilizing the transition provisions.

We can act as a sparring partner during the conversion or handle the entire process of preparing all necessary documentation.

In connection with financial due diligence, there is often a need to prepare pro forma statements of profit and loss and balance sheet under IFRS with comparative figures. This is also something we can assist with.

Accounting memos

In relation to the accounting process throughout the year or at year-end, a number of estimates and judgements are typically made regarding how specific matters are classified, recognized, measured, and presented in the financial statements. These estimates and judgements should be documented for internal compliance, for auditors, etc., in accounting memorandums.

At NORD advise, we support the preparation of technical accounting memos and can, among other things, prepare them in connection with:

  • Accounting implications of business acquisitions or other corporate transactions, such as purchase price allocations, assessment of shareholder agreements, etc.
  • Entering into new contracts with customers, partners, etc.
  • Special events that have occurred during the year
  • Impairment tests
  • IFRS conversions

Preparation of Accounting Manuals

Accounting manuals are the foundation for effective reporting processes and high-quality reports. We design, maintain, and ensure the quality of accounting manuals for use in the accounting and reporting processes of businesses.

Whether the accounting manual needs to be updated with new areas or created from scratch, our accounting advisors are ready to assist you.

Preparation of Annual Reports and Interim Reports

Whether the financial statements are prepared using IFRS or the Danish Financial Statements Act as the relevant financial reporting framework, we assist in preparing all elements of annual reports and interim reports, including the narrative, the financial statements, and any sustainability reporting.

We help with the financial statements, disclosure requirements, and note information, but we can also help enhance the value of the overall annual report by ensuring a strong presentation and storytelling of the company’s equity story through strategy, business model, goals, and results.

M&A accounting

When acquiring a company, a number of accounting considerations typically arise.

If control over an external company is obtained, the acquisition must be accounted for using the acquisition method, with the steps involved therein.

We can assist with the entire process or elements of it and ensure that considerations regarding the acquisition date, acquirer and acquiree, determination of purchase price, identification of acquired assets and liabilities, valuations, and allocation of purchase price (purchase price allocation) are correctly documented and reported.

In other situations, acquisitions are intra-group, or there may be acquisitions of minority interests, leading to other accounting issues. We assist with all areas.

Year-End Support

If you need support during the busy year-end season, or if a need arises at another time, we are happy to provide an experienced accounting advisor for a period to support the ongoing accounting process or specific accounting issues.

Courses and Training

If you need ongoing courses and training for employees, or if a specific topic becomes relevant, we offer tailored courses specifically for your company.

We have some of the industry’s most competent and experienced facilitators with extensive teaching experience from the SR Academy, Copenhagen Business School, the Sustainability Academy, etc.

Training is offered both physically at your location and virtually from our studio.

Accounting Advisory

Proactive and stratetic Accounting Advisory

By nature, financial reporting is about reporting historical events and transactions, and often the possibilities for accounting treatment are limited after transactions and events have occurred. For this reason, it is important to consider the accounting consequences before entering into contracts, etc., as it is often at this stage that the opportunities to influence the accounting effect in a strategic direction are best.

In many cases, even small changes to the wording in contracts, etc., can make a difference in whether leasing should be recognized on the balance sheet, whether an investment should be seen as a subsidiary, etc.

Therefore, we always want to be involved at an early stage, already in the agreement phase, so that accounting risks can be reduced and opportunities utilised.

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Should you use your own auditor as an accounting advisor?

A question we often get is whether there are advantages to using your own auditor as an accounting advisor.

It is important to understand that the auditor shall audit the financial statements, but not prepare them. For this reason, a number of independence rules apply, which mean that the auditor can explain rules, etc., at a very general level, but cannot actually support with calculations, assessments, estimates, etc.

The auditor’s ability to advise and help is therefore greatly limited by the auditor act. The auditor will often also have an interest in reducing the audit risk, which will lead to conservative assessments, even though you as a company may be able to argue for lower risks, higher values, etc.

With NORD advise as an advisor, we can better support your specific interests and wishes – of course within the framework allowed by law and regulation. Finally, it should be considered that most auditors are generalists and do not have experience with technical accounting issues. For this reason, we advise a number of audit firms on technical matters.

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