Questions about the future prospects and the resulting corporate values are often at the heart of economic transactions but also affect the interests of the company’s owners, executives and investors, or its stakeholders, such as potential investors, the tax office, suppliers, employees and customers of the company. Owners need an assessment of the value of the company in the context of inheritance or gift situations, but also in the case of disagreements among shareholders and to indicate a potential purchase price in the context of company sales or acquisitions. Investors need a full company analysis for a well-founded risk assessment. Is a company in financial difficulties capable of being restructured? What can be said about over-indebted companies in crisis? For conducting a well-founded communication with the tax office, company executives need to have clear information on the corporate values of individual group companies, for example in the case of restructurings that sometimes have significant potential tax implications. Suppliers often base their decisions as to whether they wish to continue supplying the company with essential goods for production on its short to medium-term solvency.

As an independent and expert appraiser, NAUST HUNECKE prepares company evaluations, business reviews, insolvency audits and restructuring opinions.