Quality of Earnings

As a lender, you need confidence that the earnings and cash flow will be sufficient to service your debt. Lenders rely on Keystone Financial Services (‘KFS‘) for Quality of Earnings reports and related due diligence. Our professionals look beyond the reported financial statement numbers and help identify potential issues.

For lenders to rely on operating cash flow and EBITDA figures, they must have a thorough understanding of borrower’s accounting procedures as well as its method for documenting changes in revenues, expenses, and balance sheet accounts. While Field Examinations focus on the balance sheet, the QE report is designed to provide a professional, third-party analysis of revenues and cash flows. Our QE report helps lenders evaluate the recurring nature and quality of the operations and cash flows, as well as the underlying assets and liabilities of the business.

KFS’s Quality of Earnings report identifies the impact of items that don’t reflect a business’ actual or normalized performance and cash flow, or are not repeatable or sustainable over time. Some of these might result from accounting choices, others from the business climate or management decisions made regarding operations.

KFS’s QE report also considers the company’s control systems and important elements of its business operations including by client, industry, product line or other relevant metric.

KFS provides QE services to lenders who offer products ranging from fully secured and cash flow term loans to subordinated loans and equity investments. Our team of professionals asks the difficult questions to gain an understanding of the borrower’s accounting processes and tests the strength of the client’s balance sheet and quality of earnings.