Your Loan has Been Assigned to Special Assets...What Now?
The bank will likely also increase the frequency of field exams, physical inventory counts, appraisals, and testing of receivables to estimate the probable percent of recovery in the worst-case scenario, should the company cease operations and have to liquidate. Even if the company has not been asked to provide these reports in good times, expect that the Special Assets credit officers will ask for them, all of which will be at the company’s expense. Prepare your accounting staff for additional reporting to the lender.
• Prepare yourself and top managers to hear terms that may be upsetting, such as GOB (Going-Out-of-Business) analysis, OLV (Orderly Liquidation Value) appraisal, bankruptcy and foreclosure.
Mark Hahn is a managing director and founder of Graphic Arts Advisors, a boutique strategic financial advisory and consulting firm focused exclusively on the printing, packaging, mailing, marketing services, brand management, and related graphic communications industries. With more than 35 years of graphic communications experience in the areas of finance, operations, sales, M&A, and general management, Hahn has served as chief financial officer, chief operating officer and other senior positions with several commercial printing companies, as well as founding and eventually selling his own printing company.The firm assists company owners and management, as well as their lenders, investors and shareholders in the following areas: mergers and acquisitions, sale of business, strategic and financial advisory, capital structure and funding, financial analysis, interim and turnaround C-level management, business valuations and serving as consulting experts. Hahn is the author of The Target Report and is regularly published and quoted in printing industry trade and management journals. Mark Hahn can be reached at (973) 588-7399 or mark@graphicartsadvisors.com