Financial Due Diligence
Adams Harris professionals have proven to identify risks and opportunities for all businesses involved with an acquisition.
How Adams Harris Can Help
Adams Harris tailors a customized due diligence strategy for each client. Expertise includes evaluating and assessing the following:
- Accounting policies and procedures
- Capex requirements
- EBITDA and unusual or nonrecurring transactions
- Federal, state and local taxes
- Financial reporting and information systems
- Financial trends
- Key assets and related reserves or allowances
- Key assumptions and drivers to projections
- Loan covenant compliance
- Personnel trends and requirements
- Unrecorded liabilities
- Working capital trends
Benefits You Receive
The benefits of working with Adams Harris are categorized from the perspective of a buyer or seller below:
Buyer
- Providing purchasers with greater certainty and transparency over the nature of the business and the characteristics of their cash flow; assisting in pricing decisions and structuring the contract.
- Enhancing the understanding of the target business and therefore increasing the likelihood of the deal achieving its objectives.
- Assisting in identifying and understanding critical success factors, so that informed decisions can be made.
- Identifying and focusing attention on the factors in the business that will be critical to its future success.
Seller
- Assisting in properly positioning the company strategically pursuant to a deal by identifying and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of their business or assets.
- Assisting with the early identification of critical issues for the option to “regroup and fix” outside the glare of publicity.
- Providing rapid execution of the divestment from the point of announcement for vendors; reducing the business disruption and accelerating the transfer to the new owners.
Why Adams Harris?
We call it the Adams Harris Experience. It is who we are, what we do, and how we operate. We want to be the only call you need to make.
