Growing, getting into new markets, knowing competitors, determining the most appropriate partnerships, company mergers and acquisitions are among the indispensable elements in the business life where competition and progress constitute the basis. Sales, mergers, and initial public offering transactions that reach the expected targets depend on accurate determination for pricing of those transactions, similarly, selling of companies, attempts for fund-raising from the capital market or practising strategies that minimize value losses with the rightest timing in capital increases. Where the pace factor in the strategic financial management of companies is critical, the possibility of making mistakes also rises.
Through defining the key factors, improving the sales transaction structure, reducing risks, questioning the projected financial performance assumptions, companies that have powerful financial structure, look for new opportunities in the market, have got into financial difficulty and/or want to improve the cash flow and minimize their risks are provided with consultancy services.
As PLATON, we focus on the success of our customers and provide consultancy for the following areas:
Strategic Financial Management
– Increasing the solvency capacity through methods such as revaluation, working capital management, asset sales, etc.
– The capital increase, reducing financial expenses and improving indebtedness ratios
– Preparing short and long-term business plans
– Creating projections for budgets, cash flows, balance sheets, and income statements and determining the primary financial ratios
– Managing relations with banks, determining credit limits, risks, and other credit performance indicators
– Managing exchange rate risks and setting targets
Financial Check-up
– Assessing financial position, analyzing financial liabilities, determining areas of development
– Determining KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and forming the corporate strategy
– Market, trend, and competition analysis, status quo, and future projection
– Preparing growth plans according to alternative scenarios
– Performing financial and operational analysis of companies and determining potential problems or opportunities
Corporate Risk Analysis and Management
The service covers determining exchange rate, interest, and liquidity risks within the financial operating cycle and utilizing the most appropriate financial instruments to keep those risks at the required level. Particularly the exchange rate risk is among the primary risks that companies definitely manage due to great volatilities in prices.
– Forming risk maps to determine financial risks.
– Determining interest, liquidity, and exchange rate risks through financial analysis and credit evaluation reporting and managing them with financial instruments (Derivatives Exchange, SWAP, Forward, etc.)
– Determining the capital need compatible with the liquidity risk and providing sources of finance
– Determining interest risks and minimizing by using finance instruments
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)
PLATON’s mission is to provide its corporate customers with quality financial services. We serve our partners in process preparation, management, and post-merger and acquisition integration issues in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) field by means of customer-oriented and scientific approaches. With our dynamic and experienced team, we find answers to questions and requests of our customers and support them in corporate finance and long-term planning issues through our consultancy in strategic matters.
PLATON provides consultancy services as the consultant of the acquiring or selling party during the merger and acquisition process by managing the process on behalf of our customers and assisting them in finding potential investors/partners as well as process, due diligence, financial issues, company valuations, tips and strategies on buying/selling.
Under our process consultancy services, we also focus on evaluating strategic compliance, analyzing target companies/potential buyers, maintaining corporate communication, evaluating proposals, making negotiations, performing transactions on mergers or acquisitions, post-merger and acquisition integration.
Using our company valuation service, we blend valuation techniques accepted in the finance theory and experiences of our team of experts with different methodologies and create objective evaluations. Through corporate finance consultancy for M&A, we provide consultancy on answering questions of companies about source creating/finding, evaluating and proposing inorganic growth strategies, the importance of company values in long-term planning, and preparations for evaluating M&A options.
Company Valuation
The valuation must be performed, adopting a transparent, reliable, and realistic approach in order to increase the efficiency of corporate finance transactions and fulfil legislation requirements. However, the justification of asset and liability values might be very complicated and critical for some companies. The principal element in acquisitions, share sales, and partnerships are the company value. Company values and risks have to be determined objectively and independently. Values are supported by comparisons, global evidence, and market modelling types and presented to investors as an actual-value report.
Services that PLATON offers within this scope are as follows;
– Determining operational numbers
– Analyzing the previous-year information
– Forecasting cash flows
– Utilizing other assumptions
– Calculating assets and company value
Tax Audit
Under tax audit and consultancy services, we aim to help our customers to manage tax as an operating cost. Wherever we do business, locally or globally, we always encounter tax. Today’s decisions determine the weight of your future tax burden. In our country, like other countries in the world, continuous amendments in the financial legislation complicate tax laws more than ever before, which leads companies to need active tax planning.
PLATON finds special solutions for taxes that customers consider as costs, supports them with national and global points of view and approaches, and provides tax efficiency in both short and long terms. It must be remembered that the accurate planning of tax strategies yields profit, investment, and labour for companies.
