SERVICE

A 25-day close isn't a process problem.
It's an architecture problem.

Unified chart of accounts, intercompany discipline, multi-currency consolidation under US GAAP — financial architecture for companies running US and India operations, built by someone who closes both sides every month.

Engagement model
Outcome-based engagement
Scope
Defined together in a scoping call
Who does the work
Founder. Every deliverable.

THE PROBLEM

Entities built in isolation. Consolidated in agony.

Cross-border operations break finance functions in ways domestic companies never see. The local accountant builds the India books for Indian compliance. The US team builds for US GAAP. Nobody designs for consolidation — and month-end becomes a multi-week exercise in frustration.

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The chart of accounts was built in isolation. India set up for local statutory compliance, the US for GAAP, no coordination from day one — so every close starts with manual remapping and ends in reconciling spreadsheets nobody trusts.

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Intercompany balances never match. The same variance gets investigated every month, written off at quarter-end, and never root-caused — until the auditor asks the one question you can't answer.

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Transfer pricing sits at one of two bad extremes: aggressive enough to invite scrutiny on either side of the border, or so conservative it carries tax cost the company never needed to bear.

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Nobody can see true economics by geography. Management runs a multi-country business on consolidated totals that hide which operations create value and which consume it.

WHAT WE DO

Architecture first. Then execution.

The work starts with a financial architecture that serves both local compliance and US GAAP consolidation — then fixes the close, the intercompany, and the reporting on top of it. Already operating and already in pain? It starts with a diagnostic, not a re-implementation.

Consolidation architecture. A unified global chart of accounts — or an automated mapping layer over the ones you have — so local books and consolidated reporting stop fighting each other.

Intercompany protocols. Transaction protocols, settlement cadence, and a reconciliation process that keeps balances matched within materiality every month — not patched once a year for the audit.

Multi-currency consolidation. Functional currency analysis, translation, and CTA mechanics under ASC 830 — documented so your auditor reviews the work instead of rebuilding it.

Transfer pricing framework. Defensible and efficient, coordinated with your US and India tax advisors — a working framework your close actually follows, not a study that sits in a drawer.

Close-cycle compression. A close calendar with named owners and escalation paths across time zones — designed to take month-end from weeks to days, and keep it there.

Reporting by geography. Management reporting that shows true economics per entity and per country — what each operation earns, what it consumes, and what it returns on the capital it uses.

First-entity setup. Planning your first international entity? Structure, sequencing, and architecture designed before the first transaction is booked — the cheapest moment to get this right.

WHY US

Built by someone who works both sides of the border.

The founder is a US CPA and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad — an operator with ten years inside US-listed public companies who has consolidated US and India operations month after month. Zero restatements, zero late filings, zero audit qualifications.

~5 days
Target month-end close, multi-entity US–India
10
Years in operational finance, spanning US and India
30+
Consecutive on-time SEC filings

How we work: every engagement passes the 4-Gate model — document intake, source reconciliation, independent cross-check, deliverable review — before anything reaches your auditor or your board. See the model.

QUESTIONS

Cross-border questions, answered straight.

We're already live in both countries and the close is a mess. Do we have to re-implement our ERP?
Usually not. The engagement starts with a diagnostic to find the root causes of consolidation pain — which are almost always architectural, not system-level. In most cases an automated mapping layer over the existing charts of accounts fixes the close long before a re-platforming would, and the remediation proceeds in phases: mapping layer first, then intercompany reconciliation, then a unified global chart of accounts. A re-implementation gets recommended only if the existing architecture genuinely cannot carry the company — and you'll see the evidence before you see the recommendation.
Can you work with our existing accountants in India?
Yes — that's the design, not a concession. Your local team keeps statutory compliance; the engagement adds coordination protocols, a shared close calendar, and one set of numbers both sides reconcile to. The founder works across US and India time zones and speaks both rulebooks — US GAAP as a CPA, Indian standards as a US CPA — so nothing gets lost in translation between your controller in the US and your accountant in India. Unfolding Values is not an audit firm and provides no attest services — we work on your side of the table.
We haven't set up our first international entity yet. Is this premature?
It's the cheapest possible moment. Designing the chart of accounts, intercompany protocols, and transfer pricing framework before the first transaction is booked costs a fraction of remediating five years of isolated books later. The scope gets right-sized at Gate 1 — a first-entity architecture engagement is much smaller than a full consolidation rebuild, and it prevents the rebuild entirely. Fees are fixed to the outcome, not the hour. You see the full scope, deliverables, and fee in writing before any work begins.
You hold a full-time finance seat. What happens when your 10-Q week is my 10-Q week?
Fair question — it's the first one we'd ask. Engagements are capped at two new per quarter, and your filing calendar is mapped against existing commitments at scoping. Filing deadlines are knowable months ahead; if the peaks collide, we build the buffer into the timeline or we don't take the engagement.
START HERE

Tell us where the close hurts.

Email rohit@unfoldingvalues.com with your company name, ticker, and one sentence on the pain point. You'll hear back from Rohit — not a junior, not a form-response — within one business day.

Email rohit@unfoldingvalues.com