Pricing Tool for Cash Pool Borrowing & Deposits

What is cash pool pricing?

The Cash Pool Pricing Tool applies a structured methodology to determine arm’s length borrowing and deposit rates within the group cash pool. First, each participant’s creditworthiness is assessed using defined quantitative and qualitative criteria. Based on this assessment, appropriate market benchmarks are identified. For borrowing positions, relevant corporate bond yield data is used and adjusted to reflect the short-term liquidity nature of the pool. For deposit positions, central bank overnight facility rates serve as the base reference. The tool then applies consistent pricing logic to ensure that rates reflect market conditions while remaining aligned with OECD transfer pricing guidance. The result is a transparent and defendable pricing framework applied consistently across all cash pool participants.

• Significantly reduces costs by eliminating the need for separate cash pool benchmarking analyses and integrating creditworthiness assessment and market data in one framework.

• Ensures arm’s length borrowing and deposit rates aligned with OECD guidance and applied consistently across all cash pool participants.

• Strengthens centralised treasury control by standardising pricing across the group while supporting efficient liquidity management and financing strategy.

Who uses a transfer pricing cash pooling tool?

Tresury Departments

For treasury teams managing group liquidity and daily cash pool operations who require consistent, market-based borrowing and deposit rates.

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Tax Departments

For tax teams responsible for ensuring cash pool transactions comply with OECD guidance and are supported by defendable arm’s length pricing.

Multinational Groups with Centralised Cash Pools

For multinational companies operating cross-border cash pooling structures and seeking standardised, transparent pricing across all participants.

Improves accuracy in cash pool borrowing and deposit pricing through a consistent market-based methodology. Enhances compliance with OECD transfer pricing guidance and creates a transparent audit trail, supporting defensible documentation and reducing risk during tax authority reviews.

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Why finance automation is key for scaling?

Our Excel-based tools optimise financial management by automating inter-company transaction flow, risk monitoring, and price setting. Seamlessly integrated with your existing systems, automation reduces manual errors, boosts transparency, and elevates overall financial performance.

Finance automation is essential for scaling as it streamlines financial processes and handles increasingly high transaction volumes efficiently. It ensures accuracy, compliance, and real-time reporting, freeing up time for strategic tasks and accelerating decision-making to drive growth.

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Intercompany transaction calculation tool

Our Intercompany Transaction Calculation Tool is designed to automate and simplify the complex process of managing intercompany transactions, starting from cost / revenue allocation, through transfer pricing policy application and down to monthly invoicing. It offers a comprehensive solution for companies dealing with high volumes of related-party transactions by standardising the process, integrating well with accounting systems, reducing manual work and error, as well as providing clear audit trail.

Transfer pricing policy application

Apply your established transfer pricing policies to automatically calculate intercompany invoice amounts.

Real time TP adjustments

Make live adjustments to inputs within the transfer pricing policy, allowing flexibility and adaptability.

Automatic import and export

Seamlessly import your accounting data, have the tool calculate, review outputs and proceed to automatic import back to your accounting system.

Have comprehensive overview of all invoices between entities, with relevant breakdowns to such for audit trail.

Invoice overview and audit trail

Accounting software integration

Generate import files tailored for your accounting software, ensuring smooth integration.

Cost breakdown reporting

Conduct year-end or periodic reconciliations of inter-company amounts and local entity results to ensure accurate financial reporting and adherence to TP policy.

Reconciliations

Produce detailed cost breakdown reports for local management, audit and compliance purposes.

Permanent establishment monitoring tool

The Permanent Establishment (PE) Monitoring Tool provides businesses with a powerful solution for monitoring and managing permanent establishment risks. It leverages your company’s data to assess the presence of PEs in various jurisdictions and helps manage potential tax exposure and compliance risks.

Risk weighting

Analyse and rank jurisdictions based on risk factors to determine where the further legal substance or risk mitigation may be needed.

Local presence assessment

Evaluate your company’s local presence against key risk thresholds for permanent establishment to identify potential risks and compliance issues.

Quantify potential corporate tax exposure in high-risk locations to understand financial implications and help prioritise risk mitigation strategies.

Tax exposure quantification

Risk monitoring heatmap

A visual heatmap tracks and monitors permanent establishment risks, offering recommended actions based on risk weighting.

Reflecting different risks

Structured way to assess PE risk based on two aspects: strength of your tax technical position (how likely are you to withstand scrutiny) and detectability (how likely is it for local tax authorities to see and flag the risk)

Ease of use

Build on standard, easily accessible company data, which can be easily uploaded to the tool to give up-to-date views and recommendations.

Interest rate setting tool

An interest rate-setting tool is used to calculate and determine appropriate interest rates for related-party financing transactions. This tool takes into account factors such as the borrower's creditworthiness, market interest rates, the type of financing, and regulatory guidelines. It helps ensure that interest rates comply with the arm’s length principle, meaning that the rates charged between related entities are comparable to what would be charged between independent parties in the open market.

Market data integration

Use of current interest rate market data, combined with standardised policy updates for consistency and reliability.

Creditworthiness assessments

The tool leverages robust, market tested methodology to establish the borrower's creditworthiness, as one of the key parameters influencing the rate to be established.

The tool aligns the interest rate with external benchmarks (e.g. third party lending), to ensure that financing between related parties reflects market conditions, is in compliance with tax regulations and helps avoid penalties.

Arm's length adjustments

Tailored for the industry, financing structure, asset type

The tool is tailored to work for you. It includes choices for types and stages of investment projects, is fit for multiple industries, including real estate, energy, varying investment funds structures.

Intermediary financing

Flexible to also facilitate the establishing of spread for intermediary financing activities.

Audit trail & documentation

Includes a dashboard & output view for audit trail, serves as a basis for documentation, do-it-yourself benchmarking.

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Your transfer pricing journey

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We guide you through the challenges regarding crossborder scaling with support calls that deliver.

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Here's what our clients think of the work we deliver for them. We deliver positive and profitable outcomes for C-Level executives across cross-border expansion and transfer pricing.

The team at iVC Consulting is young but nevertheless very experienced and knowledgeable. They quickly obtained a good understanding of our quite complex global structure and resulting needs in relation to a global transfer pricing policy. They approached the problem as if they were internal employees of Docplanner - in a very pragmatic and efficient way. I was also impressed by their modeling skills. Highly recommend, especially for high-growth tech companies.

Peter Bialo
CFO and Board Member
DocPlanner

Transfer Pricing and Beyond! If you are looking for a quality service and advice that works in practice, iVC Consulting should be your choice. Extensive professional knowledge, knowing its client, practical approach - that's what makes a difference.

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Director of Tax
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Frequently asked questions

What tools does iVC Consulting offer for accounting and tax?

We provide tailored solutions for tax compliance, accounting automation, and benchmarking, designed to enhance accuracy and streamline operations, e.g. inter-company invoicing tool, interest rate setting tool, permanent establishment (PE) monitoring tool.

How can benchmarking tools benefit my business?

Our benchmarking tools help you set competitive, compliant prices by comparing your transactions with industry standards, reducing audit risks. All done real time, enabling do-it-yourself documentation.

What industries benefit from iVC’s tax and accounting tools?

Our tools are valuable for sectors with complex compliance needs, like fintech, healthtech, e-commerce, as well as fund and asset management, supporting efficient, compliant growth.

How do I start using iVC’s tools?

You can reach us by booking a meeting with us or just write an email to hello@ivc-consulting.com. We’ll discuss your needs and recommend the best tools for your business.

Can iVC’s tools integrate with existing systems?

Yes, our tools are designed to integrate seamlessly with most accounting and ERP systems, making implementation smooth and cost-effective.

How does iVC ensure compliance with its tools?

Our tools are built to comply with local and international regulations, reducing errors and enhancing audit-readiness for multi-jurisdictional operations.