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FDD checklist organized by QoE, NWC, net debt, tax, contingencies; deal-type aware.
Format & standard
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What good looks like.

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What it must include

Criteria
  • 01Quality of earnings (QoE) adjustments and normalized EBITDA
  • 02revenue recognition and customer concentration
  • 03working-capital peg/normalization
  • 04net-debt and debt-like items (deferred rev, accrued PTO, earnouts)
  • 05tax exposures (nexus, sales tax, payroll)
  • 06off-balance-sheet/contingent liabilities
  • 07forecast assumptions vs historicals
  • 08deal-specific (asset vs stock, reps)
  • 09data-room request list
  • 10key risks and adjustments to purchase price
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Signals of expertise

Quality
  • ★QoE/EBITDA-bridge adjustments, working-capital-peg mechanics, debt-like-items concept, customer-concentration risk, net-working-capital true-up
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Common mistakes

Pitfalls
  • ×Treating reported EBITDA as normalized
  • ×ignoring working-capital peg
  • ×missing sales-tax/nexus exposure
  • ×no add-back scrutiny
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