Assess whether management can run this without the founder (7d5174)

Situation

Earnout metric definitions that invite dispute arrived with IT diligence showing two ERPs and no chart of accounts map for customer-contract risk reviewer. That is a M&A Due Diligence Separation and Integration decision on management can run this in a strategic buyer looking at a carve-out from a conglomerate.

Decision

Customer-contract risk reviewer in a strategic buyer looking at a carve-out from a conglomerate must choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold using earnout metric definitions that invite dispute after IT diligence showing two ERPs and no chart of accounts map.

Hypotheses to test

• The population in earnout metric definitions that invite dispute is the one IT diligence showing two ERPs and no chart of accounts map named, so Proceed follows for this Separation and Integration file.
• The population in earnout metric definitions that invite dispute is adjacent only to IT diligence showing two ERPs and no chart of accounts map; Reprice is the honest M&A Due Diligence call.
• A strategic buyer looking at a carve-out from a conglomerate already contained IT diligence showing two ERPs and no chart of accounts map before earnout metric definitions that invite dispute arrived; no new Separation and Integration path.
• Provenance on earnout metric definitions that invite dispute after IT diligence showing two ERPs and no chart of accounts map is broken; do not pick Proceed or Reprice yet.

Analysis required

• Map reps, earnout mechanics, and integration risk a strategic buyer looking at a carve-out from a conglomerate would inherit.
• Tie quality-of-earnings, working-capital, and contingent items in earnout metric definitions that invite dispute to management can run this.
• Name the document customer-contract risk reviewer still needs before signing.
• For this M&A Due Diligence Separation and Integration file, read earnout metric definitions that invite dispute against IT diligence showing two ERPs and no chart of accounts map and write the one fact that would move management can run this for customer-contract risk reviewer.

Recommendation

Choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold on this M&A Due Diligence / Separation and Integration packet (earnout metric definitions that invite dispute after IT diligence showing two ERPs and no chart of accounts map). The follow-on Separation and Integration action is what customer-contract risk reviewer does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.