Diligence rarely fails on the numbers being bad. It stalls because nobody can produce them: the schedule behind a balance, the contract behind the revenue, the reconciliation behind the cash. Getting that together after a term sheet arrives costs weeks at exactly the wrong moment.
Balances are right in total and have nothing behind them.
Documents are gathered in a fortnight, so they are inconsistent and incomplete.
The single most common request in diligence, and the slowest one to answer late.
What an engagement includes depends on scope. These are the parts that come up most.
We go through what a buyer or lender will ask for and tell you what is missing, before you need it.
Each balance carries its backup as a matter of routine, not as a project.
Financial statements, reconciliations, contracts and the cap table, in the structure a reader expects.
Three to six months is comfortable. A month is possible and it costs more, because the work gets done twice, once quickly and once properly.
Yes. We answer the finance requests directly so your team is not translating between the buyer and the books.
That is common and it is the honest place to start. We scope the cleanup separately so you can see what the readiness work actually costs.
We will say plainly whether this is work we should be doing for you, and what it would cost.