Financial audit
Accounts, ratios, prime cost, seasonality, consistency between declared sales and observed activity.
Buyers, investors, groups, and sellers too: CHR Consulting audits the business, the lease and the operation before signing, then supports the first months after the takeover.
Flattering sales can hide a drifting cost of goods ratio, heavy payroll, equipment at the end of its life or a restrictive lease. These points weigh directly on the price and on profitability after the takeover.
The acquisition audit links every finding to the buyer's projected P&L, to negotiate on concrete facts and prepare a realistic takeover plan.
Accounts, ratios, prime cost, seasonality, consistency between declared sales and observed activity.
Remaining term, rent and indexation, permitted use, service charges, works, assignment clauses: what the lease really allows.
Real profitability, investments to plan and risks, to put the asking price in context and prepare the negotiation.
Licences, fire safety and accessibility, food hygiene, extraction, condition of the kitchen and equipment.
Employment contracts transferred, organisation chart, rotas, productivity and HR points of attention.
Projected P&L, priorities for the first months, adjustments to the offer and organisation, ratio tracking after the takeover.
By starting from real profitability rather than sales alone: restated operating profit, cost of goods and labour ratios, weight of the rent, investments to plan, condition of the lease and installations. These elements put the asking price in context and support the negotiation.
The remaining term, the rent and its indexation, the permitted use and activities (cooking, extraction, terrace, opening hours), how service charges and works are split, and the clauses governing assignment.
When a business is sold, current employment contracts are in principle transferred to the buyer (article L1224-1 of the French Labour Code). The team, contracts and payroll must therefore be analysed before signing.
Consulting is tailored and quoted after a first conversation. For a first opinion, the Expert session (one hour by video with Florian Poirson) costs €150 incl. VAT.
Let's discuss the business, the lease and the figures, in confidence.