The Finance Team That Makes the Numbers Hold Up
Start the deal conversationDeals don't usually die in the first meeting. They die in diligence, when the buyer's team starts asking for support behind the numbers and the answers come back slow, inconsistent, or not at all. On the sell side, every gap in the books becomes a discount on the price or a reason to walk. On the buy side, the risk runs the other way: the seller's financials look great in the deck, and the real question is whether the earnings are actually there once you look underneath. Either way, the deal is decided by whose numbers survive scrutiny.
Precision Financial is the finance team on your side of that scrutiny. We're not investment bankers and we're not lawyers, and you'll want both of those in a serious deal. What we do is the financial work underneath the transaction: proving out earnings, preparing the books and the data room, testing the other side's numbers, and supporting the model your decisions rest on. Our CFOs have sat in the seat through ownership changes at over a hundred companies, so when the diligence requests start arriving, they land on a team that has answered them before.
What's Included
Sell-side financial preparation
We get your books to the standard a buyer's diligence team expects: reconciled, consistently classified, and supported, ideally starting well before the business goes to market. Clean books are negotiating power.
Quality-of-earnings-style analysis
A hard look at what the business really earns: normalizing owner expenses, one-time items, and accounting quirks so the earnings number in the conversation is one that survives diligence.
Buy-side financial due diligence
On an acquisition, we dig into the target's financials on your behalf: testing revenue, margins, working capital, and liabilities so you learn about the problems before the wire transfer, not after.
Data-room preparation and diligence response
We organize the financial documents buyers ask for and manage the response process, so requests get answered quickly and consistently instead of stalling the deal.
Deal-model support
Financial modeling for the transaction itself: purchase scenarios, working capital targets, earnout mechanics, and what the combined business looks like after close, in numbers you can defend.
Post-close integration of the books
After the deal, we merge accounting systems, align charts of accounts, establish opening balances, and get the combined entity to a reliable close, so ownership changes on paper and in the books.
Who It's For
M&A support fits owners a year or more from a planned sale who want the financial house ready before buyers look at it, sellers already in a process whose diligence requests are outrunning their bookkeeper, operators acquiring a competitor or complementary business without a finance team sized for diligence, and buyers who want the target's numbers independently pressure-tested. If a transaction is on your horizon in either direction, the financial preparation should start now.
Why Precision
Deal scrutiny is a different altitude of scrutiny, and Precision has worked at it. Our CPA, CMA, and CGMA credentialed team has guided companies through ownership transitions, built reporting for companies up to $400 million in revenue, and untangled hundreds of company files, which is exactly the experience that matters when someone else's accountants start pulling threads in yours. We stay in our lane, working alongside your attorney and any banker or broker on the deal, and we own the lane completely: when the numbers are questioned, they hold.
Success Stories
“Helped to guide us through a recent ownership transition... helping us understand our numbers and improve our business practices.”Jayme Chapman
Get Started on Your Financial Journey with Us
Whether you're buying, selling, or just getting ready, the numbers decide more of the deal than anything else. Let's make yours solid.
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