COMPANY REVIEW & DUE DILIGENCE IN THE NETHERLANDS
Understand the company before the decision
Altroverso™ helps entrepreneurs and owner-led companies review the fiscal, financial, bookkeeping, governance, operational, and structural condition of a company before buying, selling, merging, investing, restructuring, or continuing under pressure.
A company can look active, profitable, and functional while carrying hidden exposure. The purpose of a review is to make the company readable before commitment becomes consequence.
This page is for decisions such as:
- buying or taking over a company;
- selling a company or preparing it for sale;
- entering a partnership or shareholder structure;
- investing in a small or owner-led business;
- merging, restructuring, or reorganising control;
- checking whether the company is still financially and structurally sound.
WHY REVIEW MATTERS
A company does not need to be visibly broken to carry risk.
In micro and small companies, exposure is often hidden in ordinary places: incomplete bookkeeping, unclear VAT treatment, undocumented loans, missing contracts, weak shareholder records, payroll tax issues, informal agreements, supplier dependency, or decisions made without proper evidence.
The numbers may not be reliable
Revenue, costs, debt, tax liabilities, and margins may look acceptable until the bookkeeping and supporting records are tested.
The structure may not match reality
Ownership, decision rights, director duties, contracts, roles, and operational control may not reflect how the business actually works.
The decision may carry hidden consequence
Buying, selling, investing, merging, or continuing may expose obligations that were not visible at first contact.
WHEN TO REQUEST A REVIEW
Review the company before the pressure becomes personal.
Due diligence is not only for large corporate transactions. In small companies, the financial, fiscal, operational, and personal consequences can be sharper because ownership, management, money, and responsibility are often very close to each other.
Before investing
Read the company beyond the pitch, including financial reliability, tax exposure, role clarity, contracts, and operating discipline.
Before continuing
Use a review when the company is still active but the founder no longer fully trusts the numbers, records, structure, or direction.
WHAT WE REVIEW
We read the company across the areas where exposure usually hides.
A useful review does not look only at the final balance or a single tax matter. It connects the documents, numbers, decisions, obligations, roles, and practical behaviour of the company.
01
Fiscal position
VAT, payroll tax, corporate tax, filings, payment pressure, corrections, fines, correspondence, tax debt, and visible or potential exposure.
02
Bookkeeping reliability
Completeness, consistency, invoice logic, bank matching, missing documents, unreconciled balances, document storage, and whether the books can be trusted.
03
Financial readability
Revenue, costs, margins, open liabilities, debt, cash pressure, creditor exposure, continuity signals, and whether the financial story is explainable.
04
Governance and control
Ownership, director roles, shareholder records, decision habits, approval logic, internal controls, documentation discipline, and accountability structure.
05
Contracts and obligations
Supplier contracts, customer commitments, loans, leases, employment obligations, informal arrangements, renewal risks, termination exposure, and missing agreements.
06
Operational and transaction risk
Client concentration, supplier dependency, founder dependency, process weakness, handover risk, integration issues, and risks created by the intended decision.
DUE DILIGENCE FOR SMALL COMPANIES
Small-company due diligence should not imitate large corporate theatre. It must be sharper, more practical, and closer to where the real exposure sits.
In owner-led companies, the numbers, founder behaviour, documents, tax history, contracts, informal decisions, and operational habits often sit very close together.
That is why a useful review must read the company as a living structure, not only as a folder of documents.
HOW THE REVIEW STARTS
1. Decision intake
You explain the decision, the company, the urgency, and what you need to know before acting.
2. Document and context review
We identify what is available, what is missing, what is inconsistent, and what requires deeper reading.
3. Exposure and priority map
We separate what is critical, what is material, what is unclear, and what can be handled later.
4. Direction for next steps
The outcome may support negotiation, cleanup, deeper due diligence, restructuring, tax work, legal coordination, or no-go decision-making.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
The output is designed for decision, not decoration.
The review should help you decide what to do next, what to request, what to correct, what to negotiate, what to avoid, or what to escalate to specialised support.
Priority map
A structured view of what matters first, what can wait, and what requires further professional attention.
Red flags
Identification of visible risks, inconsistencies, missing evidence, weak controls, or exposure areas.
Missing documents
A clear view of what information, contracts, records, filings, or supporting documents must be requested or reconstructed.
Exposure areas
Practical reading of fiscal, financial, governance, operational, transaction, and continuity pressure points.
Next-step direction
Guidance on whether the matter should move to cleanup, deeper review, negotiation, restructuring, tax work, legal support, or closure planning.
Decision support
A more disciplined basis for deciding whether to proceed, pause, renegotiate, repair, restructure, or walk away.
RELATED ROUTES
A review often leads
to a practical next route.
Once the company becomes readable, the decision may move toward cleanup, transaction preparation, restructuring, tax response, closure planning, or a decision not to proceed.
BOUNDARIES
What this service is not.
- It is not a valuation promise.
- It is not a guarantee that a transaction should proceed.
- It is not a cosmetic business scan.
- It is not a substitute for formal legal representation where required.
- It is not designed to confirm a decision already made without evidence.
- It is not a report based only on what the seller, buyer, or founder prefers to show.
- It is not useful when documents are intentionally withheld.
- It is not comfort language for avoidable exposure.
The review is useful when the decision requires reality, not reassurance.
COMPANY REVIEW INTAKE
Tell us what decision
depends on this review.
Use the intake form to explain the company, the decision, the documents available, the deadline, and whether the review concerns acquisition, sale, investment, merger, restructuring, continuation, or internal company health.