What do you look at in the 3 statements on a deal?

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Everything.

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You need to determine the EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, & amortization) and the value multiple, so you use the financial statements to build out those calculations

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Look up Aswath Damodaran on youtube. Valuation professor at NYU. He posts his lectures which will give you everything you could really find on youtube on it.

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*Adjusted EBITDA

Too open ended a question for a reply beyond “potentially everything”

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Depends on what the adjustments are

Depending on what you're trying to determine, the answer can be any number of things. So yeah, everything

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EBITDA margin and FCF conversion rate are the two big ones

Depending on the industry. For growth companies I spend more time with I/S. On a real/likely deal, I’d try to hire big 4 to put together a QoE to save some time on the more granular things.

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