Staying ahead of the competition
Firms that are flexible and comprehensive in their approach to blockers and splitters can:
Fund Accounting
Gain a competitive advantage and increase profitability
Any firm or company with fund entities—private equity firms, asset management firms, hedge funds, and family offices—needs a platform that gives them a competitive advantage and increases profitability. But there are barriers that must be addressed:
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Ensuring accuracy of recoverable expenses and management fees
Correctly allocating revenues and recoverable costs among funds can be time-consuming and error-prone. Demonstrating compliance, profitability, and accountability can be nearly impossible with siloed data, manual processes, and lack of transparency. All too often, time is spent trying to resolve these issues using only Excel spreadsheets.
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Becoming more competitive
To attract more investors, you need to stay ahead of the competition by offering what they cannot, but you need to do it profitably. This requires the flexibility to handle everything from cost-effectively providing self-service options to managing complex fund structures.
HOW FUND ACCOUNTING BENEFITS YOUR FIRM
Investor Diversity
Appeal to a more diverse investor base, e.g, more conservative or mission-related investors
Tax Efficiencies
Gain tax efficiencies that benefit you and your investors
Reporting
Simplify reporting for investors
Flexibility
Have more flexibility in strategic planning
Risk Management
Adapt to changing laws and regulations, mitigating risk
Everything you need in a single, integrated solution
With HSO’s solution for Fund Accounting, you get support of complex fund family structures, enabling the management of the reimbursable expenses of those structures.
- Have a complete audit trail, from the fund entity through the fund structure, across to the management company to the original Accounts Payable transaction and invoice copy.
- Manage financial processes for expense allocation and/or fund accounting, depending on your requirements.
- Use it as a single, end-to-end solution for all your needs or integrate it with the fund accounting tools your management companies use.
The tale of two Private Equity firms
PE Firm Tames Complex Global Entity Relationships
One of the largest global timberland managers, with $3B+ in assets/1.7M acres under management, was struggling with a fund accounting system that was expensive to maintain and required complex consolidations and eliminations across a large number of entities, levels, and currencies, making it difficult to report across the entities.
With HSO’s Fund Accounting, fully integrated with key business applications, the firm’s system was optimized for global, complex entity relationships. The firm now has a fully automated financial consolidation process with visibility across all funds and entities.
PE Firm with Multiple Entities Gains Control Over Allocations and Disbursements
A global growth investor with $80B+ AUM and 21 PE funds invested $100B+ in 40 countries has a complex multi-entity structure that was causing challenges at all levels, like difficulty with securely extracting data from multiple sources, which slowed allocations and disbursements…and an aging ERP wasn’t equipped to meet the challenge.
HSO implemented a complete ground-to-cloud transformation with D365 Finance and HSO’s Fund Accounting, which streamlined muti-entity fund accounting processes with near real-time data access
and reporting.
Two solutions in one: Helping asset management firms maintain their books and their investments
For management companies
HSO’s Fund Accounting helps you:
- maintain books and records for your management companies,
- drive accurate allocations with complete transparency,
- and generate intercompany entries on fund and corporate accounting books.
By automating your processes, you can consolidate hundreds of entities on multiple levels in minutes, regardless of complexity. You get the flexibility to work more efficiently and offer more options to investors, like billing top-level fund families or managing down to each sub-fund company, integrated with your fund accounting tool.
For fund entities
Regardless of how complex your funds are structured, you have what you need with HSO’s Fund Accounting. Beyond a typical ERP:
- you get the tools you need to maintain books and records for your investment portfolio,
- perform capital calls and distributions to investors,
- and provide reporting to management on the performance of fund assets and allocations.
Visibility and transparency
Whether you’re using HSO’s Fund Accounting for management companies or fund entities, you get visibility and transparency into the end-to-end flow of all your transaction allocations:
Lower transaction costs, better margins
Improved security, compliance, and traceability
The ability to provide better, more proactive client service
Improved data accuracy, visibility, and transparency
Scalability and flexibility for growth and expansion of entities, currencies, taxation, and reporting requirements
Free your data, tear down the silos
If you’re using HSO’s Fund Accounting for both your management companies and fund accounting, you’re at an instant advantage. With one system, your data is always up to date and correct.
With confidence in your data and the ability to access it in near real time, you won’t have to worry about reconciliations between fund accounting, financials, and data warehouses, and you’ll get reports you can depend on.
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