QoE on LMM Companies

I am currently in what feels like a tough spot, working with a small company (EV < $40mm)that has several subsidiaries and our team opt'ed to not get a QoE preformed. No one at the company was/ever has been an auditor. This company does not prepare budgets or get monthly/quarterly audited financials. I am now being asked to combine the internal monthlies and as I go through them, Revenue doesn't tie to the annual audits, expenses don't tie to the audits, they have a ton of equity investments across the board that pay irregular dividends. It is hard for me to comfortable say what the financial outlook of the company is to my seniors and I feel like this would be solved by having a QoE preformed. Is this normal in the LMM

For those that work in the LMM, How often do you get QoEs for your sell side engagements? 

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Messy financials are not uncommon in the LMM. In my experience, when I encountered a discrepancy and thought there was some accounting error or something didn't tie I would usually just keep digging  and eventually everything would make sense. 

Dumb question but, have you checked the adjusting journal entries?

 

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