John Hollas

John Hollas

is a co-founder and managing director of CUFTanalytics, a transfer pricing consulting firm headquartered in Calgary, Canada specializing in pricing intercompany financial transactions. He has over 20 years of transfer pricing experience during which he has assisted multinational entities, including some of North America’s largest energy companies, in analyzing, designing, documenting and defending their transfer pricing policies and procedures. John also has over 17 years of corporate banking and corporate finance experience involving credit risk assessment and pricing negotiations for financial transactions while working in senior positions at major Canadian financial institutions. He now uses this banking experience to assist his clients in determining the arm’s length charges for intercompany loans, financial guarantees, performance-related guarantees, cash pooling/house bank transactions, factoring, leasing and derivatives.

Tutorial: Country Risk Adjustment in Intercompany Financing

One of the most challenging transfer pricing issues regarding financial transactions is making a comparability adjustment for differences in country risk between the tested non-US borrower’s country and the comparable US borrower's country in pricing the intercompany loan interest rate.

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Tutorial: Benchmarking with the CUFT Loan Agreements Database in EdgarStat

Intercompany financing is a growing area of focus in transfer pricing. CUFT Analytics co-founder and managing director John Hollas provides guidance on using the EdgarStat CUFT Loan Agreements Database to benchmark an arm's length range of interest rates.

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