Accelerating DD of financials during valuation

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by a searcher from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
in San Francisco, CA, USA

1yr ago

Accelerating DD of financials during valuation

I've received multiple sets of financials for multiple years for various businesses to really dig into locaiton-specific performance and comps

I appreciate this may sound naive (!) but is there a way to collate large numbers of multi-year financials to calculate SDE without having to simply brute force manually myself?

What approaches have you taken to gathering financials to analyse and easily compare valuations?

Thanks in advance!

Dan

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reply by a searcher 1yr ago
from Binghamton University, State University of New York in New York, NY, USA

Thank you for the tag^redacted‌, I highly recommend hiring a CPA or FDD provider to help navigate this process. In Phase 1 of QoE, we’ve worked with businesses that have multiple divisions or branches to ensure an accurate combined EBITDA/SDE. Happy to chat if you'd like to learn more about our approach. redacted

reply by a professional 1yr ago
from University of Minnesota in Laguna Niguel, CA, USA

Typically find that, given multiple formats, manual entry is most efficient. On occasion you can streamline it by only itemizing key expenses like payroll, marketing, and professional fees, etc... while leaving other SG&A as a bucket number. Feel free to reach out if you want support, we offer a pre LOI due diligence and can operate as a thought partner to evaluate your deals. redacted