Exit Readiness Assessment
A structured questionnaire, completed online with a private link from BCP, that shows where your company stands before a sale or an investment and what to fix first.
Preparation shortens the process, keeps competitive tension and avoids value leakage between offer and signing. The assessment tells you, in a buyer’s terms, how far your company is from that point.
Nine areas, one score
Your answers are scored across the nine areas a buyer examines in due diligence. Each area carries its own weight in an overall score out of 100.
Shareholder alignment & objectives
Buyers need one clear counterparty. Misaligned shareholders stall processes and erode price late in negotiations.
Financial reporting & quality of earnings
Price is a multiple of EBITDA buyers can verify. Every unverifiable unit of profit is discounted, escrowed or deferred.
Financial performance & growth story
Growth, margins and predictability drive the multiple. A credible, documented plan lets buyers pay for the future, not only the past.
Management & owner independence
If the business depends on the owners, the buyer is buying the owners. That means earn-outs, long lock-ins or a lower price.
Customers, suppliers & market position
Concentration and weak contracts are the most common reasons for price chips in commercial due diligence.
Legal & corporate structure
Clean title, a clear perimeter and valid permits are preconditions to signing. Gaps become conditions precedent, indemnities or deal-breakers.
Tax & regulatory compliance
Historic tax exposure stays with the company. Buyers price it through specific indemnities, escrows or lower valuation.
Operations, IT & ESG
Deferred investment, weak systems and ESG gaps translate directly into capex and integration costs the buyer deducts.
Transaction preparedness
Whether advisors (M&A, legal, tax) are in place and a data room covering financial, legal, HR and commercial documents could be assembled within four weeks.
What your report shows
A readiness band
Your overall score places the company in a readiness band. Red flags on key buyer issues limit the band whatever the overall score, because a buyer would treat them as conditions or price adjustments.
Red flags a buyer would raise
Each red flag with its typical consequence in a deal: a price reduction, an escrow, an earn-out, special warranties, or a buyer walking away.
Prioritised actions
Every improvement action, ranked by the score points it would recover, with extra weight on key buyer issues.
A preparation roadmap
The actions grouped by the time they usually take: quick wins in 0 to 3 months, medium-term work in 3 to 12 months and structural changes in 12 to 24 months, with an indicative preparation time.
How it works
A private link from BCP
A BCP advisor opens your assessment and sends you a private link and an 8-character access code. The link names no company and is never indexed by search engines.
Answer at your own pace
The questionnaire is available in English and Romanian. Your answers save as you go, so you can continue later on any device with the same code. Upload supporting documents by stage, from the assessment to preparing the sale and due diligence, and download one package with your responses, your report and every document.
See where you stand
Your answers are scored out of 100 across the nine areas a buyer examines, and your overall score places the company in a readiness band.
Walk through it with BCP
Your advisor reviews the report with you and proposes how to close the gaps before a buyer finds them.
Start with where you stand.
Assessments are opened by a BCP advisor. Tell us about your company and we will send you a private link and access code.