A funding round or PE entry brings new backers. They want answers now.
The forecast assumptions have not been tested. The board pack does not explain cash. Diligence questions get answered late and inconsistently.
My reporting harness runs six steps: source snapshot, transformation, reconciliation, source-linked explanation, exception owner, publication gate. Agents prepare, I review every figure as CPA and sign it; no figure is released until every entity ties to its source row.
The method