Mert Ilter Budget Planning 2027: What the Group Template Doesn't Ask Your German Subsidiary It usually arrives in the second week of September. An email from group finance, a spreadsheet attached, a deadline in the subject line. Twelve months by cost centre, growth rates pre-filled, a curren...
Mert Ilter When the Group Moves Accounting to a Shared Service Center — What Stays Behind in Germany It's a familiar sequence. The group decides to consolidate finance operations. Bookkeeping for the German entity moves to a shared service center — often in Poland, the Czech Republic or Portugal. The...
Mert Ilter What Banks Want to See in 2026 — And Why Most German SMEs Can't Show It The financing climate in Germany has changed, and the numbers are not subtle. The first quarter of 2026 brought 4,573 corporate insolvencies — the highest quarterly figure since 2005. Al...
Mert Ilter Year-End Close Preparation: The 3-Month Deadline Most Companies Get Wrong Most German companies know they have twelve months to file their annual accounts. Far fewer know that the deadline to prepare them is a completely different — and much shorter — clock. F...
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...
