Analysis

Knowing what you don't know is often more important than
knowing what you do. Asking the right question or getting to an
answer then becomes far less important than knowing the
solution - especially when there's more than one.

Analysis
- Performance (income stmt)
Profitability
Asset management
Operational
- Condition (balance sheet)
Liquidity
Capitalization
- Cashflow, free cashflows
- non GAAP restatements
- Valuation all major entities
- Post-transaction integration
- Ownership & control
- Historical use effects
- Lease alternatives
- Capital market factors
- Refinance
- Franchise purchase
- Replace or repair
- Overhead expense
reduction
- Manufacturing cost
reduction

Models
- All M&A and related
transactions
- Analysis of net synergies
- Securities underwriting:
IPO
Secondary
Sr. bank loans
Bonds (all structures)
Private placements
- Joint ventures, partnerships
- Cost benefit analyses
- Changes of control
- Operational capacity
- Capital investment for:
Expansion
Improvement
Compliance
- Process improvement &
control
- Market-driven costs of
capital
- Manufacturing costs

Due Diligence
- All M&A and related
transactions
- Receivables risk exposure
- Letter of credit processing
- Credit limit determination
- Earnings quality
- Net liability exposure
- Nonsystematic risk
- Estimated useful asset life
- Inventory risk analysis of
obsolescence,
demurrage,and loss
- Salvage value analysis
- Asset revaluations
- Asset impairments (tang.
and intang.)
- Shareholder composition
- Small business purchases
- Large equipment
purchases
- Expansion investments
- Land acquisitions