Services

To be successful in the energy market, a company needs to be well prepared for future market developments and understand what its clients want and expect. KPMG can help you master current and future challenges successfully.

The range of services provided by KPMG's Audit, Tax and Advisory functions comprise auditing, tax and advisory as well as regulatory and process, growth and transaction-oriented topics with a specific focus on the issues affecting the energy industry.

We can advise you on the following sector-specific topics:

  • Unbundling
  • Incentive/yardstick regulation
  • Grid usage fees
  • Emissions trading
  • Sustainability
  • Restructuring
  • Cooperation
  • Mergers
  • Acquisitions
  • Standardization and harmonization of business models


Below you will find a range of services and sample strategies designed to tackle specific subject areas:

Compliance

  • Advice on energy-related accounting issues, e.g. Accounting for financial instruments, exploration costs, emissions rights, etc.
  • Identification and accounting for hidden leasing agreements
  • Advice on extraction laws
  • Sustainability reports
  • Environmental due diligence
  • Compliance reporting
  • KPMG's own enterprise risk management framework


Performance

  • Planning and support in finding optimum energy-contracting methodologies
  • Information life-cycle management
  • IT performance/IT sourcing
  • Shared services
  • Professional project and program management
  • Control enhancement - integrated process and control enhancement


Growth

  • Support with the privatization of communal power utilities


Tax

  • Holistic advisory services for local authorities within the context of PPPs (tax issues, public procurement law, subsidy rights)
  • Full/partial privatization of state-run power utilities
  • Global tax services (renewable forms of energy, funding options)
  • Global tax services (law on renewable energy, remuneration for renewable forms of energy)
  •  Fiscal aspects of unbundling

 

 

Contact

Orlando Lanfranchi

Partner, Sector Head Energy & Natural Resources, Switzerland

KPMG AG
Badenerstrasse 172
P.O. Box
8026 Zurich

+41 44 249 20 45 | olanfranchi@kpmg.com