Financial Due Diligence Services:
Our financial due diligence services help the potential buyers or investors to assess and
evaluate the factors which could have affected the past performance, and which will enhance
the future results of the company. Here are some of the inclusions that are necessary for
financial due diligence.
Examination of availability of assets and liabilities:
- Analyzing the structure of assets as well as liabilities.
- Examining the current and non-current assets of the company or business, ascertainment of
their value and availability.
Analysis of quality of assets and liabilities:
- Examining the condition of the assets.
Economic analysis:
- Examining the financial independence of a company.
- Analysing the profits and loss of a company of profits of the enterprise.
- Examining a company’s financial solvency.
Tax analysis:
- Testing a company’s tax accounting system.
Review of cost and management accounting system:
- Examining policies related to accounting adopted by a company.
- Ensuring the correctness and veracity of financial statements.
Scope of work within Financial Due Diligence Services
- Analysis of a company’s financial and operational performance.
- Determining the company’s value and potential risks.
- Assessing the company’s accounting policies.
- Reviewing financial statements.
- Analyzing revenue and cost structure.
- Identifying and assessing potential risks, such and regulatory compliance and litigation.
- Check the operating cash cycle for Working Capital (shorter is better).
- Examine Receivables Aging and Payables Aging report (overdue period).
- Examine Related party transactions
- Evaluating assets, liabilities and cashflow.
- Year on year comparisons of Balance sheet and investigate in case of huge variation in the
trend.
- Examining historical financial performance and assessing current and future prospects.
- Check any exaggeration in Inventory, Fixed Assets, or Receivables, and any trivialization in
Payables.
Why Financial Due Diligence is required?
- Issues that could come up later on during the transaction can be dealt with in advance with
the help of financial due diligence.
- An informed decision/negotiation can be taken when both the parties are in tune with the
financial position of each other.
- Financial due diligence provides flexibility in the use of deliverables.
- An unbiased opinion from third party helps in enhanced trust for both the parties.
- The potential future position of the entity can be ascertained which will be a crucial deal
maker or breaker for both the entities.
Investigative Due Diligence
Thought our close tie ups with Corporate Investigators we offer Investigative Due Diligence ion
the target company. Information is typically gathered in a discreet way through partners, social
media, journalists, investors, friends and family, litigation records, corporate records, etc.
This involves the following
- Reputational due diligence on the target company, promoters, etc. in a discreet way
- Due diligence which is aimed at anti-bribery, corruption, ethics and integrity.
- Anti-bribery, corruption, ethics and integrity of the target companies are the biggest
concerns for foreign acquirers.
- Post-transactional issues are investigated as well.
We also conduct due diligence on Start-ups for Venture Capital Funds.