Part 5 of 6 — What Your Bookkeepers or Accountants Should Be Doing—but Aren’t

By the time you're ready to sell or borrow, it's too late to fix this. Growth & Transaction Readiness 🚫 No adjusted EBITDA / add-back tracking — buyers and lenders want this, and most groups find out too late 🚫 De novo location budgets and ramp tracking missing — no way to know if a new location is on pace 🚫 Quality-of-earnings blind spots — related-party transactions, management fees, and owner perks not cleanly documented Diligence doesn't wait for you to get organized. The groups that scramble during a sale are the ones who never tracked this along the way. 👉 Access the guide here: https://resources.accrudent.com/accru...