Due diligence and audit - Cognition Shared Solutions LLC

Challenges

The success of many intra- or inter-company activities, be it large M&A deals, or everyday cross-departmental cooperation, depends on a thorough understanding of processes, values, and risk. Due diligence and audit are critical in ensuring decisions related to these activities are well-informed.
Whether you are trying to accurately assess another firm (e.g., in an M&A context) or your own (Internal Audit), you are likely to encounter similar obstacles, ranging from lack of expertise and communication issues to inadequate planning to lack of team buy-in.
Our Trilayer methodology serves as a unified framework for objectively assessing analyzed processes.

How do we help our clients?

Never buy a pig in a poke

In our experience, the key to any successful assessment is ensuring a ubiquitous language, allowing clear and transparent communication of both expectations and results.
With the help of our Trilayer Business Process Analysis™ framework we will provide:

complete planning and execution,
experts matched to the knowledge domains required by the scope,
structured communication with all stakeholders,
effective separation of sensitive information through the use of Chinese walls and segregated teams.

By employing the right people and tools, we can prevent:

using incomplete or inaccurate information to make an assessment,
loss of the trust of stakeholders,
sunk costs effects.

Particularly in the case of M&A deals, we can save our clients from:

overestimation of synergies, leading to failed integrations or unplanned costs,
missing the opportunity window.

Dilligence in the mother of good luck.

Benjamin Franklin

Supported processes

Corporate governance
Financial planning

If you require any assistance with due dilligence or audit, or would like to discuss how we can assist you in designing them, please do not hesitate to contact us.