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The transaction was the result of several prior transactions and required a detailed technical analysis to ensure all the appropriate entries were made for the preparation of year-end reporting and the subsequent audit. Another result of the recapitalization was that one of the client’s investors became the controlling interest, which now required additional reporting and disclosure requirements for their financial statements and the financial statements of that investor.
We reviewed all the agreements related to the recapitalization and summarized the many aspects of the transaction into a technical paper that highlighted those aspects which most significantly impacted the accounting. In addition, we provided all the necessary entries needed both in the client’s general ledger as well as their equity reporting platform, Carta.
Their external auditors noted that the clean, concise summary of the transactions we provided and the mapping of the entries flowing through the general ledger significantly reduced the amount of time they spent trying to understand and audit the transaction.
The client realized several positive outcomes:
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