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• Should total sales and/or total purchases reported on Schedule A and/or B under service code 4, financial management services, equal the amounts reported under Question 14 on page 10, or Question 17 on page 11?

• Are profit allocations reportable as financial management fees?

• Do the equity partners in a U.S. fund have to file the BE-180?

• Does each fund manager in a U.S. fund with covered transactions file a separate BE-180?

• I am a U.S. custodian. Do I need to report payments of brokerage fees and commissions?

• If the country amount is less than $500, do I list the country and $0.00 or do not have to list the country at all?

• How should I interpret the terms "sales" and “purchases?” Many organizations and transactions types are really not related to sales or the organization is not involved in sales.

• Should I report profit sharing on the BE-180 between U.S. parents and their foreign subsidiaries & with U.S. subsidiaries and their foreign parents?

• At what level should data reported on the BE-180 be consolidated?

• We provide financial services to our foreign parent or a foreign affiliate of our foreign parent. Should we report them on the BE-180?

• We provide financial services to one of our foreign affiliates. Should we report them on the BE-180?

• Should I report all services not otherwise listed on the BE-180 under service code 10, other financial services?

• When reporting data by country on the BE-180, can regions be used instead?

• Are the purchases or sales of goods reported on the BE-180?

• We provide financial services to a U.S. affiliate of a foreign company. Is this transaction applicable to the BE-180?

• We purchased financial services from a company in Country A, but we sent the payments to a bank or different entity in Country B. How should we report this transaction on the BE-180?

• How should I account for mergers and acquisitions on the BE-180?

• How do I report more than one transaction type or more countries than the Schedules allow?

• How do I file the BE-180?

• I file the BE-185 Quarterly Survey of Financial Services Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services Providers and Foreign Persons. Do I still need to complete the BE-180?