Reported profit taken apart and rebuilt as the earnings a buyer will actually pay for. Before they find it.
Diligence-grade analysis, not an audit or an assurance opinion
Selected clients across the US, GCC and Europe
The analysis is the same discipline pointed in opposite directions. One protects your price, the other protects your capital.
Every adjustment is evidenced, quantified and traceable to source.
Need the multiple as well as the earnings? Business valuation is priced separately.
See business valuation
Each normalisation carries the schedule, the invoice and the reason it was made, so a buyer’s advisor can follow the same trail.
The clock starts when access and the data request are answered, not when the calendar allows.
A written data request, then a working session on how revenue is earned and where the books are weakest.
Monthly trial balances rebuilt, revenue tested to source, and every candidate adjustment quantified.
We walk the adjustments with you and argue the ones a counterparty will contest, before they get the chance.
A written report with the databook behind it, plus a session so you can hold every line in a live call.
The adjustments needed to turn reported profit into a defensible number were larger than the reported profit itself.
A number is only worth what the independence behind it is worth.
We are answerable for finding what the records contain and evidencing it properly. We are not the auditor, and we do not decide the deal.
The fee tracks how much work the records need, never a percentage of the transaction.
Single entity, clean-ish books, run ahead of a process rather than inside one. Names what would fail diligence while there is still time to fix it.
Sell-side or buy-side inside a live process. The report a counterparty and their advisers will read line by line.
Multi-entity or multi-currency groups, carve-outs, roll-ups, or books that need rebuilding before they can be tested at all.
These are the published figures, fixed in writing before work begins. Every other fee we charge sits on one page.
Compare with every other feeFees are fixed before work begins and never a percentage of the transaction. This is diligence-grade analysis, not an audit: no opinion, no assurance. Rebuilding books first is quoted separately.
No. An audit opines on whether statements are fairly stated. A QoE asks how much of that profit is real, repeatable and worth paying for.
Buyers accept evidence, not letterheads. Every adjustment is quantified and traceable to source, which is what their advisers test. Some will still run their own; ours shortens that work.
Six to 12 months before going to market if possible. Found early, an issue gets fixed. Found in diligence, it gets priced against you.
Monthly trial balances for the period, the general ledger, bank statements, the customer revenue detail and any contracts that matter. We send a written data request on day one.
It is the normal starting point, and exactly what a buyer will find. If the records need rebuilding before they can be tested, we quote that separately.
Never. The fee is fixed before work begins and does not move with the transaction, because an adviser paid on completion has a reason not to find things.
Mostly document gathering, around 6 hours spread across 3 weeks. We chase the detail ourselves once we have access.
The report and the databook, including every adjustment and the evidence behind it.
Not always. It removes the surprises that would justify a re-trade, which is the part anyone can control. A buyer who wants a discount will still ask for one.
Book a call and get a fixed-fee scope within 24 hours. Tell us which side of the table you are on and how soon the process starts.
Which side you are on, the period involved, and the state of the records.
Scope, period and price in writing within 24 hours, never a percentage of the deal.
50% deposit and a written data request start the 15 business days.
The written report, the supporting databook, and a session to defend every line.
