Industry
Recurring revenue, IP structuring and investor-grade reporting.
Software and platform businesses are judged on recurring revenue quality and unit economics. Structure and reporting need to survive a funding round or a trade sale.
5 practices most relevant to technology
Discuss your positionWhat we get asked
The questions we get from technology.
Recognisable problems rather than a capability list. Each one has a route through it.
Recurring revenue recognition and deferred income
IP ownership and cross-border structuring
Investor and board reporting packs
Financial modelling for funding rounds
Market context
Software and platform businesses are judged on the quality of recurring revenue and on unit economics, both of which have to be presented on a basis an investor will accept. Structure and reporting need to survive a funding round or a trade sale without being rebuilt.
How we help
What we are actually engaged to do.
- Recurring revenue and deferred income
- Revenue recognised on a basis that stands up in diligence.
- IP ownership and cross-border structure
- Structuring that reflects where the IP is developed and held.
- Investor and board reporting
- A reporting pack investors read without asking for a reconciliation.
Relevant services
Ranked for this sector, not alphabetically.
The order reflects where the work usually starts.
Business Advisory
Decisions on growth, cost and structure, backed by numbers.
Tax
UAE Corporate Tax, VAT and transfer pricing, handled end to end.
Corporate Services
Entity set-up and ongoing corporate compliance in the UAE.
Transactions
Diligence, valuation and deal support from signing to integration.
Accounting & Finance
A finance function that reports on time and holds up to scrutiny.
Where we get the call
Situations we are brought into.
These describe work we are engaged to do. Named engagement notes publish only where a client has approved them.
A funding round is approaching and revenue recognition has never been reviewed independently.
IP is being developed in one jurisdiction and licensed from another with no supporting basis.
Related
Technology, in context
Next step
Talk to someone who knows technology.
Bring the specific problem. The first conversation is about establishing whether there is one, and what it would take to resolve.
Not ready for a meeting? Ask one specific question instead.
What follows
- A person in the relevant practice reads it, not a routing queue.
- One reply that already contains a view, not a request to book a call.
- A written scope and fee basis, or a straight answer that there is no work to do.
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