Mert Ilter Transfer Pricing Documentation: The 30-Day Rule Most German Subsidiaries Can't Meet A rule change that got surprisingly little attention has made life considerably harder for German subsidiaries of international groups: the deadline for producing transfer pricing documentation to the...
Mert Ilter E-Invoicing in Germany: The 2027 Deadline Most Companies Aren't Ready For Germany's mandatory B2B e-invoicing regime has been phasing in since 2025, and the next hard step is close: from 1 January 2027 , companies above €800,000 in prior-year revenue must issue domestic B2B...
Mert Ilter SKR03 vs SKR04: Which German Chart of Accounts Should Your Company Use? Every company that keeps books in Germany runs into this decision exactly once, usually in week one: SKR03 or SKR04? The two standard DATEV charts of accounts contain broadly the same accounts — but t...
Mert Ilter Management Reporting Pack: What Actually Belongs In It — and What Gets It Ignored Most companies above a certain size produce a monthly management reporting pack. Far fewer produce one that gets read. The failure mode is always the same: the pack grows page by page, quarter by quar...
Mert Ilter Bundesanzeiger Disclosure: Deadlines, Fines and Exemptions for German Companies Every German limited-liability company — GmbH, UG, AG — is legally required to disclose its annual financial statements. Not just to the tax office, which happens anyway, but publicly: filed electroni...
Mert Ilter SaaS KPI Framework: How to Define MRR, ARR, CAC and LTV for Startups and Scale-Ups Almost every SaaS company tracks MRR, ARR, CAC and LTV. Far fewer can explain exactly how they calculate them. That gap is where funding rounds get uncomfortable. Here's the thing most metric guides s...
Mert Ilter DATEV Setup: A Step-by-Step Guide for New Companies and German Subsidiaries Almost every German company keeps its books in DATEV, usually alongside a tax advisor who handles the statutory filings. When DATEV is set up correctly from day one, it runs quietly in the background ...
Mert Ilter Financial Due Diligence Checklist: Get Deal-Ready in 30 Days Roughly one in three signed letters of intent never reach closing — and financial due diligence findings are the leading cause. Quality-of-earnings and financial diligence findings together account fo...
Mert Ilter AI in Controlling: 5 Practical Use Cases for German SMEs in 2026 Two years ago, most conversations about AI in finance were speculative. That's no longer true. According to Bitkom's 2026 AI study, 41% of German companies now actively use AI — up from 20% in 2024 — ...
Mert Ilter HGB vs IFRS: The Key Differences for German Subsidiaries in Practice Every German Kapitalgesellschaft — GmbH, AG, and most subsidiary structures — has to file a statutory annual account under HGB , the German Commercial Code. There is no opt-out. It's the legal basis f...
Mert Ilter 13-Week Cash Flow Forecast: Liquidity Planning for the German Mittelstand in 2026 Allianz Trade expects around 24,500 corporate insolvencies in Germany in 2026 — the highest number in twelve years. Per the KfW Mittelstandspanel, roughly 11% of German SMEs already rate their own liq...
Mert Ilter Interim CFO vs Interim Controller: Which One Does Your Company Need? "Interim CFO" and "Interim Controller" often get typed into the same search box by someone with the same problem: a finance function that isn't working, a departure nobody planned for, or a board that...
