The Situation
The brief.
The owners of a boutique resort — recently acquired with seller financing, mid-expansion — needed exit and recapitalization options. But the five years of financial statements underneath the decision didn't reconcile: the balance sheet was out of balance in every year on file.
Before any exit scenario could be trusted, the numbers had to be rebuilt from source records.
The Work
What we shipped.
- Ran a phase-one financial audit across five fiscal years: data extraction, normalization, currency reconciliation.
- Documented 26 findings — 3 critical, 6 high — each routed through a structured management-response process.
- Rebuilt NOI from source records and pressure-tested the $5.5M appraisal down to a supportable $4.0–4.5M range.
- Modeled recapitalization and exit scenarios on the corrected numbers and delivered a gated, web-based confidential memorandum.
The Outcome
The result.
The refinance-and-distribute scenario was shown not to pencil — before the owners committed to it. Management is resolving findings through the response process, and every decision now runs on numbers that reconcile.