Careful due diligence can play an important role in negotiations between parties. The specific procedures to be performed should be tailor –made to fit the facts and circumstances of a particular situation and the desires of the parties involved. GSG’s Due Diligence services may be comprehensive or they may be narrow in scope, and include:

• analyzing budgets and historical financial statements
• determining trends impacting the business
• analyzing key financial ratios and trends
• examining supporting documentation for specific transactions
• verifying the existence and valuation of specific assets
• identifying unrecorded liabilities assessing the quality of accounting or other management personnel
• determining the consistency of accounting principles utilized