R&D MANAGER™

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Making research and development less taxing

Research and development presents opportunities and challenges. That's why PwC created R&D MANAGER™, a Web-enabled, tax-intelligent and self-checking software.

R&D MANAGER™provides an integrated central repository for all your research and development information, and supports concurrent, multi-user capability on an Intranet/Internet platform. It delivers robust research and development project management and tax intelligence in three areas:

Scientific and Engineering Project Management

  • Capture and allocate all direct employee hours incurred on R&D and non-R&D projects
  • Consolidate multiple divisions or sites
  • Contemporaneously track R&D expenditure, time and activities on a project basis
  • Capture R&D information in real-time
  • Link projects and capture expenses or reports in a hierarchical presentation
  • Provide a browser-based interface for exchanging data with Microsoft® Project
  • Support multiple entity/multiple group use, allowing for more than one entity or work group to record R&D expenditures
  • Produce management and budgeting reports
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Finance and Administration

  • Import and export general ledger data without the need to re-key
  • Produce audit and cost reports
  • Convert and present information and reports in any currency
  • Capture all direct expenditures incurred on R&D and non-R&D projects
  • Allocate overheads to eligible projects
  • Provide central control and monitoring for recording R&D information
  • Archive data at year-end
  • Generate both custom-built and user defined reports
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Taxation

  • Tag eligible and non-eligible projects
  • Allow for review of project eligibility and reclassification of all related expenditures
  • Compare investment tax credits using proxy or traditional methods
  • Prepare project specification documentation and prescribed tax forms required by federal and provincial governments
  • Transfer R&D tax information electronically into corporate tax software packages
  • Automatic calculation and allocation of R&D tax costs

Contact a professional in your area to discuss your unique taxation concerns.