Investment & Fund Accounting

Investment & Fund Accounting

Fund accounting is a method that allows to separately follow multiple organizational activities. It can also be used to refine the monitoring of your organization, as well as ensure complete transparency in the use of certain sources against your budget.

Every company – whether it’s a not-for-profit or private equity investment manager – must track its business's financial inflows and outflows. All businesses must capture in some accounting ledger how many purchases they made, how much money came in, and other essential financial events.

Not for Profits

Whether operating Private Foundations or traditional mission-driven NFPs also have investment activities these types of activities must be recorded following special regulatory guidance issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). For NFPs a fund is any area of your organization where activity must be accounted for separately. It becomes like a small organization with its own independent accounting system. Yet in the end, all of the fund’s accounting will be consolidated into the overall accounting of the nonprofit. It is a system within a system.

Private Equity & Alternatives

The distinctive characteristics of private equity fund accounting give rise to rare challenges and make the need for experts in the field clear.

Some of the responsibilities of fund accounting in private equity have technicalities that integrate, corporate accounting – such as classifying income and expenses on an accrual basis and verifying accounting records against external sources – but others are exclusive to investment funds.

Investment Accounting

Financial Accounting

Financial consolidation
Multi-currency operation
Investment fee calculation
Capital account allocations
Capital calls & distributions

Reporting

Financial Statements
Fund performance metrics
Regulatory reports
Consolidation
Equity method reporting
Fair value reporting
Roll-forward report creation
Accounting framework review, and selection
 

From more basic strategies to highly sophisticated and complex investments and fund structures.

Take the operational burden away from you in an ever-changing investment environment, with increasingly complex regulatory requirements.

Save time and reduce errors with automated financial consolidation accounting tools.

Save hours to days creating, troubleshooting, and reconciling inter-entity transactions.

Get your reports at your fingertips and ensure timely tax and regulatory filings for proper compliance.