M&A and corporate transactions

When a third party looks at your figures

High-stakes situations, where the figures are examined line by line by outside parties looking for reassurance, and for grounds to trust them.

First case

Preparing for a shareholder change or refinancing

Feed a due diligence straight from the monthly reporting, with no heavy preparation project; record normalization and pro forma at every close.

Normalization and pro forma: Normalization adjustments, non-recurring items, and the pro forma of an older acquisition are recorded at every close, at configurable levels, with their justification — and kept current, rather than frozen at the date of the deal.
Limited preparation: What a review asks for is largely covered by the monthly reporting process, not by a project opened for the occasion: there is no rebuilding to do before opening the figures to third parties.
Audit trail: Traceability runs from the aggregate down to the journal entry, and it is kept end to end: that is what most makes the figures you circulate worth trusting.

Second case

Consolidate a simulated scope with the mechanics of a statutory consolidation; quantify several outlines and compare them before settling on one.

Pro forma consolidation: A simulated scope is consolidated with the mechanics of a statutory consolidation — levels, eliminations, top-side consolidation entries — and not in a spreadsheet kept alongside.
Audit trail preserved: It does not stop at the edge of the simulated scope: traceability runs from the aggregate to the journal entry, as it does on actuals.
Scope simulations: Outlines are drawn and replayed quickly, and compared with one another before one is settled on.
Updating: The scope keeps trading month after month. There is no need to redo everything each month: the update rests on the rules already set and on refreshed data.

Third case

Bring a target into the group closing process from the first month; read the consolidated reporting as though the acquisition had always been there.

The closing process comes with it: The target steps into a process that is already defined — collection, checks, approval, period lock — rather than into a harmonization project to be run first.
Connecting an entity: A standard account mapping framework, with automated detection and enrichment under supervision and approval. No prior harmonization.
Pro forma from the first close: Views with and without the acquisition scope are native: the period reads as though the acquisition had always been part of the group, and organic growth holds up from one quarter to the next.

Describe the transaction and its timetable. We will tell you what the platform changes about it, and what it does not.