The Workshop provides participants with an insight into and an understanding of the nature, role and operation of the transfer pricing process within organizations. As such, it provides the requisite knowledge, understanding and skills to recognize issues inherent within transfer pricing, and a range of potential solutions. It equips managers with the ability to make appropriate decisions and operate effectively in the context of transfer pricing. It emphasizes the international context, and the associated exchange value issues.

·        The nature, role and purpose of transfer pricing;

·        Ideal transfer prices;

·        Techniques used in the determination of transfer prices;

·        Limitations of transfer pricing;

·        Case scenario;

·        The international transfer pricing context;

·        The exchange value issue;

·        Case scenario.

This Workshop helps participants to understand and manage in an environment impacted by both national and international transfer pricing mechanisms. It provides insights into the advantages and disadvantages, and associated practical applications, of transfer pricing. It goes beyond core principles to explore the challenges presented by the international context.

Specifically, the intended outcomes are to:

·        understand the nature, role and purpose of transfer pricing;

·        identify and apply a range of techniques commonly used in transfer pricing;

·        recognise the advantages and disadvantages of transfer pricing techniques, and the implications for management;

·        understand the managerial behavioural dimensions of transfer pricing;

·        recognise the challenges presented within the international pricing transfer context;

·        understand how the foreign exchange value issue is managed.

This one day Workshop is for all managers who need to understand, control and apply the theory of the process of transfer pricing, particularly in an international context: particularly CFOs, CPAs, CEOs of subsidiaries, Internal Auditors, Government tax officials.

Alan is a qualified accountant (FCCA and ACMA) with a Doctorate in Education (Institute of Education-IOE, University of London), a Masters Degree in Business (City University Business School, London). He is Director of Studies in the Department of Management Science and Innovation at University College London (UCL), and Visiting Professor in Managerial Accounting on the SIMBA Program at Tongji University, Shanghai. In the past he has been Head of The Centre for Financial Management at The Open University Business School, Head of School of Accounting & Taxation at South Bank Polytechnic, and Director of Accounting Studies at Hatfield Polytechnic. Alan has a wealth of experience of real world finance issues and solutions and communicating them to managers.

 

Dates: November 8, 2013 from 8;30 a.m to 5;30 p.m.

Fees: 4,500 RMB (covers tuition, case materials and lunches)

Language: English (with Chinese translation)

Venue: Tongji University EDP Center, 1 ZhangwuLu, Shanghai

Deadline for registration: September 21, 2013. You should register as soon as possible heresince the number of participants is limited and demand is high.

Payment: No payment is due until you have received confirmation of your admission. Payment is due 15 days before the Workshop and refund in case of non-show is limited to 50% of the fees.