Thunderbird Advisory Group LLC - Business Performance Improvement

Transaction Assessment & Analysis.

Thunderbird Advisory Group provides comprehensive business optimization and financial advisory services to companies across the globe. Below is an introduction to our transaction services:

Merger & Acquisition Services
Transactions that have been through a comprehensive due diligence process are ultimately the most successful. Determining the effectiveness of processes, infrastructure, systems and financial reporting as well as identifying areas of future capital requirements are essential to conducting effective due diligence and will ultimately allow an organization to maximize value. Our firm provides solutions to assist clients for buy-side financial, tax, information technology, compliance and overall organizational due diligence. Looking at the optimal timing for potential mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures is highly relevant to many internal and external factors as well as the corresponding economic plan for specific transactions. Solutions include:

M&A strategy assessment and consulting
Financial analysis and sensitivity modeling
Target company due diligence
Capital structure and financing strategy development

Quality of Earnings
As part of the due diligence process surrounding either a buy or sell side transaction, a quality of earnings assessment can help a company determine the financial and operational performance of an organization. Quality of earnings is just that, determining the quality of what ends up in a company’s financial statements and help to determine how best to structure a transaction and what should be further vetted.

Divestiture Services
There are times when a company really has to consider when a change is needed and a potential divestiture is warranted. Any type of change is disruptive at best; however, the cost of a wrong change or poor execution could be the difference between success or failure. Companies typically need assistance in navigating a potential divestiture as these transactions are complex across many dimensions. Our firm believes in a holistic approach to these types of transactions is essential so that planning for contingencies can occur. Solutions include:

Separation management office support
Transaction and deal structure review
Entity structure planning post-transaction

Post Integration Services
A well-structured acquisition integration plan (both pre and post transaction) provides a process for ongoing monitoring and assessment of an acquisition’s integration into the company and compliance with integration initiatives. Organizations need to appropriately plan for, execute, monitor and assess the success of acquisition integration. Solutions include:

Integration financial planning consulting
System assessment consulting
Organizational integration services
Synergy identification, planning and execution

Business Plan Development
Part of any sound business is a overall plan that both outlines how a company is put together as well as how to be sustainable. Our firm provides solutions for companies looking to develop a business plan or optimize one that currently exists using our commercial business expertise and in-depth knowledge of operations, systems and risk management. We provide recommendations that take into consideration what is at stake and who is impacted by these strategic decisions.

Startup/Structure Development
Taking an idea to an actual commercial venture takes a considerable amount of time, effort, planning and ultimately structure. No two companies are the same so simply using another organization’s plan and structure doesn’t typically make sense. Our firm provides a platform for startups to conceptualize what a business really looks like, how it will operate and to both support an sustain it. From strategy and planning to organizational design and management, we assist our clients in getting to the next level. Solutions include:

Business strategy development and planning execution
Governance and risk management policy development
Organizational design consulting services
Change management consulting

Thunderbird Advisory Group provides comprehensive business optimization and financial advisory services to companies across the globe. Below is an introduction to our business performance and finance services:

Finance Optimization Services
Finance optimization services help businesses identify areas within their finance and accounting group that are inefficient, under or oversized, duplicative and/or redundant (in many cases due to decentralized operations or recent acquisitions), ineffective in being able to provide timely, relevant information and reporting and ultimately do not provide any sort of value-add. Solutions to combat these issues include:

Process redesign/automation
Finance team reorganization and training
System(s) review and optimization

Corporate Performance Management
Corporate performance management focuses on a company’s overall performance (both operational financial) and gives management a view of how well these two sides to the success equation are working together. Solutions include:

Performance dashboards
Profitability analysis and revenue enhancement
Project management and change management

Strategic Cost Reduction
Strategic cost reduction includes the concept of identifying drivers of costs and how to effectively mitigate the risk of eroding profitability and lack of visibility. Solutions include:

AP/Contract Cost Recovery
Sourcing/Ordering Optimization
SG&A Reduction

Working Capital Optimization
Working capital is the combination and interplay of Current Assets and Current Liabilities which drive cash flows, ability to fund operations, effective credit management and inventory control. Solutions include:

Increasing Days Payables Outstanding (DPO); optimizing payment structures
Decrease Days Receivables Outstanding (DSO); reduce uncollectible A/R
Decrease Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO); reduce excess or obsolete inventory