Transactions, EOTs and ownership change

Financial support for businesses preparing for a sale, EOT, investment or other ownership transition.

Transaction readiness

  • Management reporting

  • Forecasts

  • Cash flow

  • Working capital

  • Profitability

  • Customer concentration

  • Normalisation adjustments

  • Quality of financial data

  • Reconciliations

  • Controls

  • Systems

Core service areas

Preparing the numbers

One reliable version of the truth gives management and advisers a consistent basis for transaction discussions.

  • Management information

  • Maintainable earnings analysis

  • Working-capital analysis

  • Debt and cash analysis

  • Financial modelling

  • Supporting schedules

  • Reconciliations

  • Financial information requests

EOT support

  • Valuation

  • Maintainable earnings

  • Affordability

  • Vendor consideration

  • Deferred consideration

  • Debt repayment modelling

  • Cash-flow forecasting

  • Sensitivity analysis

  • Working-capital requirements

  • Post-transaction reporting

EOT trustee director experience

Adil currently serves as a director of EOT trustee companies, providing practical experience of EOT governance as well as transaction and valuation work.

This includes exposure to:

  • Business performance

  • Cash generation

  • Deferred consideration

  • Trustee reporting

  • Management oversight

  • Employee ownership governance

Where appropriate, Adil may also be able to act as an independent EOT trustee director for future clients, subject to the circumstances of the engagement and appropriate independence and conflict considerations.

Sale preparation

  • Improve reporting

  • Identify adjustments to underlying earnings

  • Understand working-capital trends

  • Build credible forecasts

  • Establish relevant KPIs

  • Anticipate due-diligence questions

  • Improve the finance function before going to market

Due diligence support

  • Coordinating financial information

  • Preparing schedules

  • Reconciling key balances

  • Explaining movements

  • Reviewing responses

  • Identifying inconsistencies

  • Supporting management discussions

Working capital

  • Historic trends

  • Seasonality

  • Debtor days

  • Creditor days

  • Accrued and deferred income

  • Payroll timing

  • Contractor funding

  • Invoice finance

  • Normal working-capital requirements

Financial modelling

  • Forecasts

  • Acquisition scenarios

  • EOT structures

  • Seller repayment profiles

  • Funding requirements

  • Ownership changes

  • Downside scenarios

  • Cash-flow sensitivities

Experience from both sides of the table

Adil co-founded and grew Azuki Accounts before its acquisition by a top 20 UK accountancy firm in 2026.

This gives Quintiva insight from both an adviser and business-owner perspective.

Start a conversation

Whether you need ongoing fractional FD support, a business valuation, help with an EOT or transaction, or a more effective finance function, the first step is a straightforward conversation.