1. Finance Assessment
24 questions covering ownership, closing, liquidity, reporting, planning and systems. Excel fields for findings, priorities, owners and evidence.
Acquisitions, due diligence and exit
The data room for financial due diligence
Folder structure by review module, access levels and the three mistakes that make a sale process expensive.
EBITDA normalisation
Which adjustments a buyer accepts, which ones get struck out and how the bridge is evidenced.
Carve-out finance up to day one
A standalone balance sheet, your own accounting entity and payment operations by the first day of independence.
Consolidated accounts after buy-and-build
How several acquired entities turn into one consolidated set of numbers.
Purchase price allocation after an acquisition
The process, how intangible assets are valued and the effect on future earnings.
Liquidity, crisis and financing
The 13-week liquidity forecast
How to build it, a template, and the typical mistakes that make a liquidity forecast useless.
Preparing a going concern forecast
When it becomes necessary, which period it has to cover and what belongs in it.
Subordination and letters of comfort
The two instruments against balance-sheet over-indebtedness – effect, wording and limits.
Covenant reporting to banks and debt funds
The metrics, the deadlines and the right approach when a breach is looming.
Preparing for the bank meeting
Which documents and metrics are expected, and how to build the argument.
Accounting, closing and finance organisation
What does outsourced accounting cost?
Pricing models, cost drivers and the question of when an in-house team starts to pay off.
Switching your accounting provider
The process, the data migration and the moment at which a switch costs the least.
Accounting backlogs and fast close
Identify bottlenecks, choose the right role and clear backlogs with agreed acceptance criteria. Guide in German.
Moving from German GAAP to IFRS
What triggers a change of accounting framework, what it takes and how long it runs.
Your first statutory audit
Who is required to be audited, how it runs and the preparation that keeps the timetable.
CFO handover and vacancy
Internal cover, interim CFO, accounting or FP&A: choose the role and review six handover packages. Guide in German.