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Companies operating globally confront the challenge of making the right supply chain choices on an almost daily basis — from deciding where new products should be sourced and manufactured to determining how much should be charged for goods, services and intangibles. In this environment, the financial impact of trade flows is fundamentally shaped by transfer pricing.

Two-thirds of the world’s trade involves transactions among related entities. In an environment where the location of profits for tax purposes can have a dramatic effect on a company's financial and tax position, it’s easy to see why transfer pricing has become one of the top tax issues for multinational companies. Companies are working to realign their supply chains and move production to lower-cost countries with the hopes of reducing their effective tax rates, avoiding onerous fines, tumbling stock prices and intrusive audits — the cross-border movement of goods and services has become commonplace. But they’ve discovered that managing transfer pricing risk in a world where regulations are subject to conflicting interpretations and gray is the operative color is no easy task. However, there is a way out of the morass — a systematic transfer pricing strategy that allows companies to see the big picture.

In this Deloitte Insights podcast Jeff Neuenschwander, leader and managing partner and Mark Nehoray, partner, both within the U.S. Transfer Pricing practice for Deloitte Tax LLP, discuss what companies should do to plan and implement an effective transfer pricing strategy.

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many other vital signs of corporate health: the company’s reputation, employee commitment, the loyalty of its customers, the quality of its governance and its capacity for innovation. True, an intangible like customer satisfaction can’t be easily quantified in dollars and cents. But boards and senior management that fail to understand why these non-financial measures are so crucial to their company’s long-term success may find that they don’t have many dollars and cents left to measure, either.

In this Deloitte Insights podcast Sharon Allen, chairman of the board, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, Bob Go, global managing director, Industry Practices, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and Steve Wagner, managing partner, U.S. Center for Corporate Governance, Deloitte & Touche LLP, explain what companies need to do to achieve a better balance between financial and non-financial performance measurements.

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