Edler Zain is an M&A focused CPA firm. We get you ready for a high value exit without getting burned in diligence, using our Buyer-Ready Earnings System, so you can put the business in the market without fearing what comes next.
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You have probably already tried a tax-only CPA to get the books in shape. Maybe you paid for a valuation, hoping for a better number than the first lowball you saw.
You got a report back, and the data still does not connect to the value you know the business has. The $500K in distributions from last year is not in the P&L cleanly. A buyer's team is waiting to use your own numbers against you. You need something that tells the story and cannot be picked apart.
There is good reason you are here. Most owners we work with spent years heads-down building the business, are brilliant at the product, are rainmakers in sales, and never once asked whether the P&L tells their story.
That is why we built the Buyer-Ready Earnings System. We recast your books, normalize owner comp, add back one-time items, and document a defensible adjusted EBITDA, so the real earning power of the business is on paper before you ever go to market.
His business went from a $3 million to a $6 million valuation after his financials were recast in our Buyer-Ready Earnings System.
That was after he had already tried hiring bookkeepers, CPAs and valuation specialists.
We cannot stand advisors who take a valuation fee without understanding how deals actually work, or brokers who list the deal and plug the financials into the listing blindly without knowing what a general ledger is. They put your business on the market. They do not get it ready for what comes next.
A documented, defensible earnings story, laid out the way a buyer's diligence team would build it, with every figure traceable to your own records.
You already know the business is worth more than the books show. This is how you prove it.
Get to your true, defensible valuation in about 30 days, without getting burned in diligence.
Every adjustment documented and traced back to the general ledger.
A databook a buyer opens, recognizes, and works from.
150+ deals of buy-side experience, on your side of the table this time.
Your price holds when the diligence team starts pressure-testing it.
We rebuild your financials into a clean, accrual-based picture and normalize owner comp so your real earning power shows up.
Adjusted EBITDA, add-backs, normalizations and cash-flow analysis go into a databook a buyer opens and recognizes.
Every adjustment is documented so the number holds up when a buyer's team pressure-tests it.
Includes the three objections owners raise most, answered.
See your real, defensible earning power documented
Walk into the market with a number a buyer cannot pick apart
Protect your price once diligence begins
We work a limited number of sell-side engagements per quarter, because the first 30 days are hands-on.