Buy-side Financial Due Diligence
- Quality of Earnings Analysis including normalized EBITDA adjustments
- Working Capital Analysis to assist in determining a Peg
- Analysis of Fair Value considerations for seller notes as purchase consideration
- Net Debt and Debt-Like Items Analysis
- Reconciliation of earnings to net changes in cash
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