Estimate an Engagement
What Would This Cost?
Tell us roughly where you stand, tick what you need, and we will show you which posture fits, what each part comes to across your entities, and what the work would actually be. It takes a minute and commits you to nothing.
With You. $4,999 one-time.
- Selling Your CompanySelling Your CompanyThe Full Internal Audit, per entity, once, at the introductory rate; the multi-entity taper applies to it. Support is per live process, per month, while it runs — one buyer’s review or one audit is one process, and two buyers looking at once are two.the Full Internal Audit, per entity, once, at the introductory rate
- $4,999 once
What this work is, and is not
We do not value your company, and the buyer's quality-of-earnings work belongs to the buyer's own advisers — the analysis we prepare is yours, before they start. What we remove is the part of a sale that destroys value for no reason: the weeks spent proving that the books are right.
A Full Internal Audit is our own examination of your books, your schedules and your evidence, on your side of the table, so that the independent audit or a buyer’s diligence finds what it needs. It is not the audit itself — an audit, a review or a compilation is an attest engagement and comes from your independent accountants; we get you ready for it and support you through it, and we do not perform it.
What the engagement would be, and who does what
With You, across a single company. The work is shared, inside your process: part of it is your team's and part of it is ours, and your team signs off as we go.
Selling Your Company
Shared — we build the diligence package and run the request list; your team fetches what we ask for and approves what goes out.
The Full Internal Audit, per entity, once, at the introductory rate: the schedules built and tied, prior periods cleaned, the evidence filed under the question it answers.
| At With You | Who |
|---|---|
| Write down what a buyer's diligence team will ask for, what is missing, and what it would take | Us |
| Build the diligence package and keep it current: statements, trial balance, ledger detail, agings, reconciliations, fixed assets, the journal listing | Us |
| Prepare your own quality-of-earnings analysis: trailing-twelve-month earnings, the net-debt bridge, working capital, customer concentration, related parties | Us |
| Fetch the evidence and the documents | You |
| File each document in the data room under the question it answers | Us |
| Answer the request list while the process runs, and the second list after the first | Us |
| Speak to the buyer's analysts | You |
| Approve what goes out; what reaches the buyer is what your management has signed off | You |
If you are not sure where your books should live, that is a normal thing not to know yet, and it is part of the first conversation rather than a decision you make now.
We will put this in writing, with the scope named, before you decide anything.
The final sign-off is your management’s on every posture; we never sign off on the books or on any engagement.
What you could take off
- Autopay takes 3% off and paying by bank transfer 2%: with both, $4,749 once.
This estimate: https://accounting-advisor.com/estimate?entities=1&situation=short-handed&cats=selling-your-company
An estimate, not a quote. The engagement letter is the quote, and it comes after we have seen your books. Every figure is from the published price list.
What This Is, and What It Is Not
This is an estimate built from our published rates — the same ones on the pricing page, applied to what you told us. It is arithmetic, not a proposal.
A quote comes after we have looked at your books, and it arrives as an engagement letter naming what we do, what stays with your team, when it is due and what it costs. A web page is not one, and we would rather say so here than let a number on a screen do work it cannot do. What happens after you write to us →
If what you described does not fit any of the three postures, or if the honest answer is the software with Review rather than a bigger engagement, we will tell you. Sometimes the answer is no.
The first conversation is a look at your books and an honest answer about whether we are the right firm.