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Best Practices for Due Diligence and Valuation in M&A

Sun Acquisitions

Due diligence and valuation are critical to any successful merger and acquisition (M&A) deal. Due Diligence: A Deep Dive Due diligence is a comprehensive investigation of a target company’s financial, operational, and legal aspects. Identify any potential financial risks or liabilities.

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5 Questions with Stuart Gilson: Creating Firm Value

JD Supra: Mergers

Professor Gilson is an expert on valuation, credit and financial statement analysis, and corporate transactions. We interview Professor Stuart C. Gilson of the Harvard Business School to gain his insights on how firms create value. He has developed several Harvard Business School case studies for teaching MBAs and executives.

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M&A Blog #15 – valuation (tools and data preparation)

Francine Way

Just as any home appraiser or credit officer does before going through the analytical exercise to produce a score for a home or a borrower, valuation professionals go through several steps of preparation before the actual exercise of producing a number that can be used as a value of a company.

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M&A Blog #16 – valuation (Discounted Cash Flow)

Francine Way

As I mentioned in my last post, Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) is a valuation method that uses free cash flow projections, a discount rate, and a growth rate to find the present value estimate of a potential investment. Add back / remove the extraordinary, unusual, non-recurring items to historical income statement to normalize the statement.

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M&A Blog #24 - Merger Relative Valuation

Francine Way

To pick up where we last left off with valuation, I will cover the topic of a Merger Relative Valuation in this blog post and move on to other non-valuation topics from here. Both tests detect the likelihood of earnings manipulation presence in financial statements through metric evaluations.

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What adjustments would you make to the financial statements of the comparable companies to ensure a

Wizenius

When performing a valuation analysis using comparable companies, it is essential to make certain adjustments to the financial statements of the comparables to ensure a meaningful comparison. This ensures consistency in financial reporting and facilitates a more accurate comparison. Thanks, Pratik S

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Grenke's audit statement

Bronte Capital

The key audit matters presented below contain manifestations of the risk of misstatements in the financial statements presented here in the introduction, which we address in greater detail in connection with the specific circumstances. Not least, there is also uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lease receivables’.