Readiness Self-Check
Is your finance line ready for a US listing?
Ten questions, two minutes. You get a score and a straight read on which part of the finance line will break first — no email required to see the score.
1. Do you have a finance lead who can hold their own in English with auditors, counsel and bankers?
2. Have your books been converted to US GAAP with traceable adjustment workpapers?
3. Has a PCAOB-registered auditor started fieldwork?
4. Is the listing timetable fixed to a month, with finance actions reverse-scheduled?
5. Is your cap table clean — options, VIE, ESOP platform included?
6. Do you have three years of financial data plus the KPIs a prospectus needs?
7. Where are you on internal controls and SOX 404?
8. Can your finance team run the business and the listing project at the same time?
9. Do you have the beginnings of an equity story for investors?
10. If you hired a CFO now, what is your budget based on?