Business

A DCF draft that used to take a team three days to build can now be scaffolded in a few hours. Comparable-company searches that meant digging through databases by hand now run faster through AI screening tools. That’s the real change AI has brought to Indian valuation work — not…

If a large chunk of your company’s fixed asset register is a building, a plant, or heavy machinery, chances are a single depreciation rate for the whole asset is quietly overstating or understating your numbers. Fixed assets componentization solves exactly this problem. In simple terms, it means splitting a single…

Every M&A deal has two advisors sitting on opposite sides of the table, and they are not doing the same job. A buy-side M&A advisor works for the company writing the cheque. A sell-side M&A advisor works for the company being sold. Confuse the two roles, and a promoter can…

Every year, hundreds of Indian companies discover too late that an incorrect business valuation report can trigger tax penalties, stall an IPO, or unwind an entire acquisition. Business valuation is the process of determining what a company, its shares, or its assets are actually worth. In India, this is far…

Most acquisitions fail after the deal closes, not before it. A widely-cited KPMG study found that 83% of acquisitions fail to boost shareholder returns, and Harvard Business Review’s long-running research puts the broader M&A failure rate at 70–90%. Post-merger integration, not deal structuring, is usually where that value gets destroyed.…