Acquisition due diligence
Financial due diligence is at the heart of any business review and helps to protect you by identifying red flags and value issues that may affect the price paid.
Challenges
Where Deloitte can help
Understanding the key risks to business models
Understanding underlying profitability of the target
Converting diligence findings into value
Impact of accounting policies and financial reporting process
Quality of management and information
Deloitte solutions
How Deloitte can help
Perform the analysis of the historical and forecast figures consisting out of:
- Identification through review historical figures of:
- Key business drivers and business trading model
- Quality of Earnings Assessment
- Price negotiation options
- Quality of Balance sheet
- Working Capital requirements
- Cash generation review
- Net Debt and Debt like items
- Value upside identification
- As well as the evaluation of forecast in terms of:
- Robustness
- Consistently with past trends
- Sensitivity analysis
Contact
Lieve Creten
Partner
M&A Transaction Services
+32 2 600 62 13
maservices@deloitte.be
Hilde Wittemans
Partner
M&A Transaction Services
+32 2 600 62 13
maservices@deloitte.be
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