Due Diligence Reports
We scrutinize the variables that affect a company’s future performance, financial reporting, and credit quality. With experience that covers a broad spectrum of unusual and unexpected situations, our team enhances each client’s risk management efforts. In fact, when we encounter unexpected outcomes, we propose alternatives to enable the parties to achieve an agreeable transaction structure and may provide advice to implement necessary financial or operational changes.
Cash Flow Transactions
VaughnCPA assesses the likelihood that a company will generate sufficient cash flow to meet its obligations. Our examination includes projected and historical cash flows, assumptions for financial projections, accounting and reporting systems, internal controls, reporting compliance, business trends, managerial depth, and change of control provisions.
Asset Based Loans
Vaughn CPA analyzes a company’s cash flow and collateral support for lenders. We evaluate collateral eligibility and value, asset performance, historical trends, pro forma borrowing bases, borrowing base structures, internal controls, and reporting compliance.
Portfolio Company Reviews
Timely information is mandatory for capital providers to ensure their loans and equity investments remain sound. VaughnCPA Portfolio Company Reviews help debt and equity participants monitor individual companies and entire portfolios. We test the key drivers of cash flow, collateral value, compliance, and investment requirements. Our clients depend on us to uncover the facts behind the financial statements and related reports. VaughnCPA thorough analysis includes: actual performance vs. budgeted performance, validity of operating assumptions and financial projections, business trends, reporting compliance, internal controls, EBITDA calculations and adjustments, collateral eligibility and quality, dilution of collateral and advance rates against collateral value.
Pre-Sale
Planning
Business owners can improve the chances of a successful sale of their company, and mitigate the chances of post-closing disputes, by thoroughly assessing the areas that buyers consider in due diligence prior to going to market. VaughnCPA Pre-Sale Planning Services involves a thorough assessment of the financials, operations and management, greatly improving the company’s ability to pass a prospective buyer’s scrupulous due diligence. We apply experience gained from conducting hundreds of due diligence and dispute resolution engagements on behalf of financial and strategic buyers. Working in conjunction with our client’s investment banker/broker, or before an intermediary is retained, we thoroughly assess and are available to help remedy deficiencies.