THE ASSET-BASED FINANCE HANDBOOK - COMPANION FILES
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WHAT IS IN THE ARCHIVE

1. The book's four workbooks, corrected
   Borrowing_Base_and_Advance_Rate.xlsx              Appendix C, Chapters 5 and 22
   The_Meridian_Transaction.xlsx                      Chapter 22
   Trigger_Design_and_Stress_Testing.xlsx             Appendices A, E and G
   Segment_Reference_and_Diligence_Checklists.xlsx    Appendices A, B, D, F, H, I
   00_START_HERE.md                                   what changed is at the end
   The first three close on a checks sheet that ends ALL OK.

2. Blank_Model_Set/  (new)
   The first three workbooks with every input emptied, for your own
   transaction. The checklists workbook already arrives empty. Each checks
   sheet counts what is still missing and tests what holds for any inputs.
   The book's figures are in book_inputs.txt: type them back in and the
   book's results come back.

3. Working_Documents.pdf  (new)
   Twelve printable pages: screening and the four numbers, originator
   diligence, the file review log, the borrowing base certificate,
   eligibility drafting, advance rate and stress cases, the trigger grid and
   headroom, servicing and the backup servicer, the ten clauses to read
   first, the monthly composition report, the five-question structure review
   and the allocator questions. A4, fits Letter.

4. Forty_Questions.xlsx  (new)
   Forty questions across the book, marked by the file as you type.

5. Cases/  (new)
   Case_1_The_Book_That_Grew_Out_Of_Its_Problems.xlsx   Chapters 4 and 21
   Case_2_The_Redress_Scenario.xlsx                      Chapter 8
   Case_3_The_Dilution_That_Was_Not_Reserved.xlsx        Chapters 6 and 21
   Each case: the note on the first sheet, the model after it, checks at the end.

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