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Consolidating Operations
Consolidating Operations Plan your strategy, facilitate the change and follow through diligently
Businesses shrink for a variety of reasons, and consolidation requires planning to ensure short- and long-term business success. AccuVal is the SingleSourceSolution® able to assist with all aspects of downsizing businesses.
AccuVal Assists During All Phases
Plan
- Validate business consolidation is essential and prepare the plan
- Gain perspective with a review of management’s consolidation plan and determine its feasibility
- Study market and competitive considerations
- Assess the profitability of current customer relationships and determine if changes are needed
- Identify the cost and timing to move assets to a new location, if applicable
- Identify key personnel needed to ensure success of the downsized operations
- Consider the impact of employment contracts and pension liabilities
- Identify lenders and/or investors interested in funding the consolidation
- Generate cash to fund the consolidation by evaluating non-critical assets that can be sold
- Locate facilities to house new operations
- Review the adequacy of business systems
- Prepare an inventory buildout schedule to ensure uninterrupted shipments during the transition period
- Identify ways to improve productivity through improved asset management
- Maximize investment recovery by considering the sale of business divisions and/or the bundling of intellectual property with other dedicated or specialized business assets
Consolidation Support
Follow Through
- Maximize investment recovery through the disposition of surplus machinery, inventory and real estate
- Reduce the tax burden by updating the property records, appraising the current fair market value and eliminating any ghost assets carried on the books
- Recover overpayments by appealing taxes for previous tax periods, when applicable
- Reduce insurance premiums by right-sizing coverage and reassessing business interruption risk
- Comply with annual financial reporting requirements by testing for impairment of Goodwill (FAS142) and Long-Lived Assets (FAS 144)
- Accurately report the value of business assets by reconciling property records to the general ledger
- Resolve disputes regarding the value of the business assets or the plan of consolidation with support from valuation experts
