Startup Finance

Why does the shareholder current account cause problems in due diligence?

Unrecorded cash movements — money the founders take out of or put into the company — accumulate in the shareholder current account. As the balance grows, an investor asks two questions: did this money leave the company, and was it taxed? If those cannot be answered, the transaction can stall or the valuation can drop materially.

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