Hourly Rate & Service Cost Base Calculations 

The IC Tool calculates internal service rates using accounting-based cost data combined with relevant operational inputs. These calculations are embedded directly within the intercompany pricing framework, ensuring that intercompany service charges are based on a consistent, transparent, auditable, and policy-aligned cost foundation, while reducing reliance on standalone rate spreadsheets and enabling repeatable service pricing outcomes across entities, periods, and transaction types. 

What the IC Tool does?

Defining cost pools based on accounting data

Incorporating operational inputs

Calculating cost-based service rates

Applying mark-ups where required

All reconciliation logic is based on the same accounting-based dataset used for intercompany pricing and financial impact analysis. 

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Why use Hourly Rate & Service Cost Base Calculations?

The IC Tool supports the calculation of internal service rates by combining accounting cost data with operational drivers to produce repeatable, transparent, and consistently applied service rates aligned with the group’s transfer pricing and internal pricing policies, enabling service rates to be refreshed systematically as cost bases, activity drivers, or volume assumptions evolve over time across reporting periods and service categories. 

  • Defining cost pools based on accounting data, including personnel costs, overheads, and service-specific expenses, ensuring a consistent and auditable cost base for internal service pricing. 
  • Incorporating operational inputs, such as hours worked, capacity measures, or other activity-based drivers relevant to the services provided. 
  • Calculating cost-based service rates, including hourly, daily, or unit rates, reflecting the underlying cost structure of internal services. 
  • Applying mark-ups where required, in line with applicable transfer pricing or internal pricing logic to achieve arm’s length outcomes. 
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Integration with Intercompany Pricing

Calculated service rates are fully integrated into the intercompany pricing engine, enabling service charges to be applied consistently across entities and reporting periods and automatically updated when underlying cost data or operational inputs change, reducing manual intervention and ensuring that changes in cost bases, rate drivers, or service volumes are reflected promptly and consistently in intercompany pricing outcomes. 

Service Charge Calculations

Using calculated rates directly in intercompany service charge calculations without manual intervention or standalone rate models. 

Service Rate Application

Applying service rates consistently across entities and accounting periods to support comparability and policy compliance. 

Service Rate Automation

Automatically refreshing service rates when underlying cost data or operational inputs are updated. 

Compare transfer pricing options

Manual calculations vs iVC (Excel IC Tool) vs Enterprise ERP — at a glance.

# Feature Manual Recommended iVC (Excel IC Tool) Enterprise ERP
1 Price £ £££
2 Time to launch (setup complexity) Medium Long setup
3 Results speed Manual effort Fast
4 Dedicated account manager No Available
5 Accuracy Low High
6 Transparency Full Black-box logic
7 Customisability Fully customisable Low
8 Audit trail Low Low
9 Financial impact No Available
10 Automatic reconciliation No No
11 TP consultancy add-on No Software only
12 Best for Startups, <2 entities Large firms (€1b+ revenue, 50+ entities)

Manual

Baseline option

Price
£
Time to launch
Medium
Results speed
Manual effort
Account manager
No
Accuracy
Low
Transparency
Full
Customisability
Fully customisable
Audit trail
Low
Financial impact
No
Auto reconciliation
No
TP consultancy add-on
No
Best for
Startups, <2 entities

Enterprise ERP

Enterprise platform

Price
£££
Time to launch
Long setup
Results speed
Fast
Account manager
Available
Accuracy
High
Transparency
Black-box logic
Customisability
Low
Audit trail
Low
Financial impact
Available
Auto reconciliation
No
TP consultancy add-on
Software only
Best for
Large firms (€1b+ revenue, 50+ entities)

Hourly Rate & Service Cost Base Calculation uses

The IC Tool is typically used to support structured internal service pricing and cost base management, enabling consistent pricing of intercompany services, alignment with transfer pricing policy, and review of service pricing outcomes over time, while ensuring transparency of assumptions and providing a repeatable approach to maintaining service cost bases and validating comparability across entities and reporting cycles. 

Internal pricing of management and support services, including administrative, technical, and operational services provided across entities. 

Calculation and maintenance of service cost bases, supporting intercompany service arrangements such as cost-plus transactions. 

Review and validation of service pricing consistency, ensuring alignment across entities and reporting periods. 

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