Welcome to Dupleix Consulting

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Expertise

Financial Services Advisory

Finance and Accounting Advisory

Accounting policy and complex accounting

We help clients understand, develop and implement the appropriate accounting policies for new business strategies and transactions. Our goal is to provide the technical expertise to help with:

• Evaluation of new standards and the implementation of accounting pronouncements.
• Accounting policies for individual transactions
• Acquisition due diligence in evaluating accounting policy risks.
• Training professionals on new or existing accounting pronouncements.

Finance operations support

Dupleix’s Finance Operations Support can assist you with all of your financial accounting and reporting needs. Our team is comprised of highly experienced professionals who have in many cases worked for the Big Four accounting firms and held financial accounting positions in private companies and public sector organisations. We have the proven ability to immediately bring high quality, experienced resources to projects, both large and small. Our services include project management, accounting support, and work stream execution. Some of the more common work streams our consultants have worked on include the following:

• Account reconciliations
• Assistance in preparing annual reports and financial statements
• Assistance in preparing for external audit
• Board of Directors and management reports
• Cash and risk management
• Compliance audits
• Cost accounting
• Financial planning and analysis
• General accounting
• Lease financing analysis
• Operational audits
• Payroll support
• Revenue accounting
• Shared services support
• Treasury and working capital analysis

Corporate Finance and Restructuring Advisory

Due Diligence Reviews

By combining our strategic, operational, and financial accounting capabilities, Dupleix consultants bring unique and integrated skill sets to potential investors by identifying value or highlighting potential issues and risks with a transaction. With deep industry expertise, our transaction-based teams can rapidly conduct high quality, fact-based, and comprehensive due diligence, including the following deliverables:

Strategic:

• Market attractiveness, key trends, and implications
• Key success factors to compete
• Potential target company screening and prioritisation

Operational:

• Operational due diligence and synergies estimation
• Pre-merger integration analysis
• Understanding and assessment of company performance

Financial:

• Quality of earnings and balance sheet reviews
• Business plan review and assessment of financial projections.

Financing:

Dupleix Consulting provides financing advisory services to small and middle-market companies, working closely with clients to devise the appropriate capital structure to support their ownership requirements and growth strategies. We offer capital-raising services for the following scenarios:

• Growth and acquisition financing.
• Black Economic Empowerment funding structure
• Management buy-outs
• Debt financing.
• Recapitalisations

Corporate Restructuring:

Dupleix’s financial and operating acumen help clients improve operating performance, restore and enhance profitability, and maximise recoveries. To assist companies that are either in distress themselves or affected by insolvent entities, we have the capability to address the comprehensive scope of restructuring, from front-end assessment, to effective decision-making support, to transaction solutions.

Capital Restructuring:

• In-court and out-of-court restructuring

Valuations

Financial valuations:

• Corporate valuations.
• Intangible asset valuations
• Investment valuations

Financial Reporting valuations:

• Business Combinations: IFRS 3
• Impairment Reviews: IAS 36
• Fair Value Measurements: IFRS 13
• Share-based payments: IFRS 2

Transaction-related valuations:

• Fairness Opinions
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Management buy-outs/ management buy-ins.
• Divestitures.

Legal, regulatory and taxation valuations:

• Litigation proceedings and shareholder disputes.
• Divorce proceedings.
• Exchange control approval valuations.
• Taxation valuations

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