Know which financial gaps to address before investors ask.
LNB Accounting helps founders prepare the financial information they expect to share during a funding round, sale, or lender review. Our CPA-led assessment compares reports with supporting records, identifies missing evidence, and gives your team a prioritized plan for addressing the gaps.
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An investor may ask for monthly financials, support for a key metric, and an explanation of cash burn at the same time. When those figures do not agree, the response becomes a reconstruction exercise.
LNB helps you identify missing support and reporting inconsistencies early, so your team knows what to address before sharing the financial package.
Identify accounting questions and reporting gaps within the agreed scope.
Compare figures in financial reports and investor materials with the records behind them.
See which missing records and unresolved items need attention first.
Focus on the transaction ahead, your current records, and the work your team needs to complete.
What We Assess
Financial reporting
Consistency of statements, ledgers, and reconciliations.
Cash burn and runway
Support for cash balances, spending, burn, and runway.
Supporting evidence
Missing records, unreconciled accounts, and open questions.
Revenue and customers
Revenue, margins, and customer concentration, where relevant.
Investor metrics
Definitions and support for metrics in investor materials.
Data-room readiness
Financial records and gaps to address before sharing.
What You Receive
When to use startup due diligence readiness
This is an advisory readiness assessment. It does not provide assurance and does not include a financial-statement audit, review or compilation; agreed-upon procedures; a valuation; a legal or tax opinion; investment recommendations; or a formal quality-of-earnings report.
Bookkeeping cleanup, cap table verification, and investor-side diligence are separately scoped where needed. Your team remains responsible for its records and decisions. Readiness work does not guarantee funding, a valuation, or a transaction outcome.
Need broader transaction analysis?
Agree the transaction goal, records to assess, and expected deliverables.
Assemble statements, ledgers, reconciliations, and reports using a tailored request list.
Compare reports and investor metrics with supporting records; document gaps and questions.
Discuss findings and the action plan. Agree any separate cleanup or deeper diligence scope.
Planning a funding round, sale, or lender review? Tell us what you are preparing for, when diligence is expected to begin, and where your financial records stand. We will discuss the priorities and propose a scope suited to your company’s stage.
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It is a review of the financial information a startup expects to share with investors or buyers. LNB examines whether reporting, supporting records, and key metrics are organized and consistent, then identifies gaps to address before an external review begins.
The investor or buyer usually requests financial statements, supporting records, performance metrics, and explanations of unusual trends. Our readiness work happens before that external process: we assess available records, test consistency, document open questions, and help your team prioritize preparation.
Start with recent monthly financial statements, the general ledger, bank reconciliations, revenue and customer reports, debt or financing records, budgets, and forecasts. The exact request list depends on your stage, business model, and the type of transaction.
Yes. The emphasis may shift toward cash use, runway, funding records, expense classification, forecasts, and the assumptions behind the business model. LNB scopes the assessment around the information that exists, rather than assuming every startup has established revenue.
No. Readiness work helps founders find reporting and documentation gaps ahead of diligence. An audit, financial statement review, or formal quality-of-earnings engagement follows its own scope and procedures and, if needed, must be commissioned separately.
Start before you share a data room or receive a large investor request list. That gives your team time to reconcile accounts, collect support for important figures, and explain differences between financial statements and investor materials. LNB can also help scope urgent preparation if a process has already started.
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