North America and Latin America differ in almost everything: reporting standards, how far tax documents have been digitised, how stable the currency is. This page groups them for presentation, not because they share a regime.
The four axes below cover the platform mechanics and the distance between the two halves of the continent; the per-country compliance cells are still empty.
Parallel ledgers: one posting produces the local statutory report and the group report side by side — nothing is booked twice.
The two halves work from different families of standards, and many groups have to file into both. That is exactly the case parallel ledgers were designed for: one posting, two recipients.
Issuing, archiving and reconciling documents sits in the configuration and integration layer — never a code branch per country.
How far tax documents have been digitised differs enormously between the two halves, so the scope of this axis has to be established country by country rather than continent-wide.
Pay cycles, mandatory contributions and contract records follow each jurisdiction, on the same data layer as finance.
Employment cost and mandatory contributions vary widely inside the same region; payroll is configuration per entity, and the cost model in management reporting has to keep up.
Three deployment models decide where the data sits; permissions and access logs are one shared design across every legal regime.
Personal-data rules across the region are not uniform, and a group operating in both halves usually adopts the strictest as its common baseline. The three deployment models let you choose where the data sits instead of accepting a default.
4 of 33 countries in this region carry source-verified facts on this page.
| Country | Accounting standards | Tax & e-invoicing | Data protection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | IFRS · BR GAAP (CPC) | NF-e · NFS-e · SPED | LGPD (Lei 13.709/2018) |
| Canada | IFRS · ASPE | no verified source yet | PIPEDA |
| Mexico | IFRS · NIF (CINIF) | CFDI 4.0 (SAT) | LFPDPPP |
| United States | US GAAP | no verified source yet | no verified source yet |
The rest of the region — no verified source yet:
An empty cell means Apus has not verified a source for that country — not that the country has no rules. Deployment is still possible; the exact compliance scope is agreed during discovery.
Not localization bolted on afterwards — these mechanisms live in the data core and are shared by every market.
Headquarters and each subsidiary are separate legal entities inside one system — not one installation per country reconciled by hand.
A single posting produces reports under IFRS and under the local standard in parallel — nothing is booked twice.
Transact in each market's currency; consolidate into the group's reporting currency as part of the close process.
Country differences live in the configuration layer — standards, document templates, tax — so every market runs the same maintained core.
Vietnamese companies almost always reach the Americas through exports first and set up a trading entity later to shorten the distribution chain. On Apus the first stage already has a home — cross-border orders, receivables and landed cost sit on the same data layer as domestic production — so incorporating is not the moment you change systems.
Served directly from Vietnam together with regional partners — discovery and delivery remote or on-site, scoped per project.
Through a clearly bounded handover, complete operating documentation and the service level in the contract — not through a promise of round-the-clock cover. The overlapping hours for live working sessions are fixed in the project plan itself.
That pair is exactly what parallel ledgers handle: the same transaction feeds the local statutory report and the group standard, and the difference between the two is managed inside the system rather than in a spreadsheet at period end.
Apus serves customers globally: the platform runs in ten languages, local accounting standards are handled in configuration, and delivery combines remote work from Vietnam with partners — projects outside Vietnam run in English by default. Tell us about your market.
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