The Chapter 11 Pre-Filing Data Package: What the Accountant Must Provide

The Chapter 11 Pre-Filing Data Package: What the Accountant Must Provide

What the company's accountant must provide and check before a Chapter 11 filing: what the opening forms ask, the documents behind every sworn answer, and the tie-outs that protect management's credibility.

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Carlos F. Flores is a turnaround manager and fractional CFO at CFO Fractional, where he serves as financial advisor to the debtor or chief restructuring officer in Chapter 11 cases and leads out-of-court turnarounds for small and mid-sized companies. He is a former Partner at Booz Allen & Hamilton, Roland Berger and Adventis, a former scientist at AT&T Bell Labs and an angel investor with Golden Seeds, and he founded and exited an e-commerce health, beauty and pet products company.

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Chapter 11 Warning Signs: A Three-Step Early Warning System

Chapter 11 Warning Signs: A Three-Step Early Warning System

A three-step early warning system for financial distress: readings you can trust, six early warning metrics with clear thresholds and a DEFCON alert scale for management to act.

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About the author

Carlos F. Flores is a turnaround manager and fractional CFO at CFO Fractional, where he serves as financial advisor to the debtor or chief restructuring officer in Chapter 11 cases and leads out-of-court turnarounds for small and mid-sized companies. He is a former Partner at Booz Allen & Hamilton, Roland Berger and Adventis, a former scientist at AT&T Bell Labs and an angel investor with Golden Seeds, and he founded and exited an e-commerce health, beauty and pet products company.

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Chapter 11 Financial Reporting When the Accounting Books Are Unreliable.

Chapter 11 Financial Reporting When the Accounting Books Are Unreliable.

How CPAs and financial advisors produce reliable Chapter 11 reports when the client's books can't be trusted: splitting the balance sheet, cleanup, the 13-week budget and monthly reports.

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About the author

Carlos F. Flores is a turnaround manager and fractional CFO at CFO Fractional, where he serves as financial advisor to the debtor or chief restructuring officer in Chapter 11 cases and leads out-of-court turnarounds for small and mid-sized companies. He is a former Partner at Booz Allen & Hamilton, Roland Berger and Adventis, a former scientist at AT&T Bell Labs and an angel investor with Golden Seeds, and he founded and exited an e-commerce health, beauty and pet products company.

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Why Companies File Chapter 11, and How They Recover

Most companies don't file Chapter 11 because the business is dead. They file because cash ran out before the fix arrived.

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About the author

Carlos F. Flores is a turnaround manager and fractional CFO at CFO Fractional, where he serves as financial advisor to the debtor or chief restructuring officer in Chapter 11 cases and leads out-of-court turnarounds for small and mid-sized companies. He is a former Partner at Booz Allen & Hamilton, Roland Berger and Adventis, a former scientist at AT&T Bell Labs and an angel investor with Golden Seeds, and he founded and exited an e-commerce health, beauty and pet products company.

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