Introduction
The programme “Tax Planning in Multinational Companies” develops professional practice in Finance. It connects the subject with workplace challenges by examining existing evidence and practices and choosing methods appropriate to the organization and its available resources.
The learning progresses from tax obligation, audit, and documentation management to cash, liquidity, and working capital management, with practical work on legal analysis, research, and memorandum drafting, strategy formulation and prioritization, financial statement and report analysis. Participants prepare outputs to support workplace application and review the quality and results of implementation.
Learning objectives
- Build a tax compliance file defining obligations, deadlines, documents, and matters requiring verification in an application related to “Tax Planning in Multinational Companies”.
- Analyze a legal issue and write a memorandum distinguishing facts, rules, and alternatives.
- Translate strategic direction into actionable objectives and initiatives.
- Interpret performance, financial position, and cash flows using documented analysis with clear limitations.
- Prepare a cash forecast and options for addressing liquidity and working capital gaps.
Learning areas
1. Tax Obligation, Audit, and Documentation Management
- Identify the country, activity, taxpayer type, transaction, and period, then identify relevant laws and instructions currently in force rather than assuming a fixed tax or rate.
- Link transactions to records, invoices, and supporting documents, checking completeness, timing, and correct accounting and tax classification.
- Prepare a training reconciliation between accounting profit and the taxable base, or between amounts payable and recoverable, according to the relevant tax type.
- Organize deadlines, authorities, and reviews for returns, payments, and responses to audit requests, documenting disputed matters.
- Prepare a tax audit file and a memo on treatment alternatives and evidence gaps, referring the final opinion to a specialist under applicable local law. The application examines a case related to “Tax Planning in Multinational Companies”.
2. Legal Analysis, Research, and Memorandum Drafting
- Define the legal question, facts, documents, and parties, separating established facts from accounts and untested assumptions.
- Identify the relevant legal system, jurisdiction, and sources, and verify the law currently in force, its effective date, and amendments before applying it.
- Analyze the relationship between the rule and facts and areas of interpretation and disagreement, documenting arguments and evidence supporting each alternative.
- Draft a memorandum covering the issue, facts, analysis, options, and risks in clear language that preserves precise legal terminology.
- Review the memorandum for consistency, confidentiality, and citation accuracy, and identify matters requiring specialist advice or additional documents.
3. Strategy Formulation and Prioritization
- Analyze the internal and external environment using available data, and distinguish opportunities from assumptions that require verification.
- Define a specific strategic problem and connect it to the organization's mission and the value sought by beneficiaries and stakeholders.
- Set measurable objectives with a baseline, target, and time horizon, and assign a clear owner to each objective.
- Prioritize initiatives according to impact, feasibility, resources, risks, and interdependencies, explaining the reasons for the trade-offs.
- Build an implementation roadmap covering phases, owners, resources, review gates, and a mechanism for adjusting priorities when circumstances change.
4. Financial Statement and Report Analysis
- Read the relationships between the statements of financial position, performance, and cash flows and the notes, identifying the effects of accounting policies and estimates.
- Perform horizontal and vertical analysis and compare profitability, liquidity, efficiency, and leverage indicators, considering the nature and size of the business.
- Examine earnings quality, cash flows, and nonrecurring items, and identify differences between accounting results and actual liquidity.
- Test the sensitivity of results to changes in sales, costs, collections, and financing, stating the assumptions and constraints in each scenario.
- Write a financial report linking indicators to management's question and available alternatives, presenting risks and additional data needed for the decision.
5. Cash, Liquidity, and Working Capital Management
- Analyze the cash cycle from purchasing to collection, identifying the effects of inventory, receivables, and payment terms on financing needs.
- Forecast receipts and payments by maturity, and document data sources and the likelihood of delays in expected cash flows.
- Classify receivables and debt aging, track collections and settlements, and connect follow-up actions to approved authorities and policies.
- Compare options for addressing deficits or deploying surpluses according to cost, liquidity, risk, and contractual constraints requiring review.
- Test a cash stress scenario, set alert thresholds and escalation actions, and update forecasts based on actual results.
Practical outputs
- A tax obligations calendar, documentation and reconciliation file, and review checklist.
- A legal research memorandum, source list, and issues requiring verification.
- A strategy map and a priority matrix for proposed initiatives.
- A comparative financial analysis report and a memo of findings and assumptions.
- A cash flow forecast and a plan to improve collections and the cash conversion cycle.
Who should attend
- Practitioners, specialists and supervisors whose work relates to the programme subject.
- Managers and teams working in finance, according to their practical responsibilities.
- Professionals responsible for applying the outputs of “Tax Planning in Multinational Companies” within their organizations.
Prerequisites
- Working familiarity with the programme field and the ability to discuss a professional case or challenge.
- Confirm the suitability of your experience and any specialist prerequisites with the Union before participation.
Conclusion
The programme “Tax Planning in Multinational Companies” brings together concepts, case review and a practical application. Participants prepare steps that can be adapted to their responsibilities and organizational resources, with an indicator to follow application and review results after returning to work.
Participation arrangements and any special requests are specified in the confirmation issued by the Union.