CLOSING THE DEAL - COMPANION FILES
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WHAT IS IN THE ARCHIVE

1. The book's five workbooks, the first four corrected
   The_Equity_Bridge.xlsx                    Chapters 3 to 9
   Locked_Box_or_Completion_Accounts.xlsx    Chapters 10 to 13
   Working_Capital_and_the_Peg.xlsx          Chapters 14 to 19
   The_Earn_Out.xlsx                         Chapters 20 to 27
   Eighty_Questions_on_the_Price.xlsx        Appendix A, kept as it was
   00_START_HERE.md                          what changed is at the end
   Each model workbook closes on a Checks sheet: 69 checks in all, ALL OK.

2. Blank_Model_Set/  (new)
   The four model workbooks with their 64 inputs emptied, for your own
   deal. 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. The eighty questions
   are already blank and are not repeated here.

3. Working_Documents.pdf  (new)
   Thirteen printable pages: the two bridges side by side, the net debt
   schedule, the cash statement, twelve months of working capital, five
   definitions of the peg, the completion-date grid, the two mechanisms on
   identical terms, the locked box file, completion accounts and the
   dispute route, the earn-out term sheet, the six buyer actions, the rest
   of the consideration, and the price memo. 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_Ticker_Against_the_Box.xlsx          Chapters 10 to 13
   Case_2_The_Band_Against_the_Volatility.xlsx     Chapters 20 to 27
   Case_3_The_Vendor_Note_at_Its_Ranking.xlsx      Appendix A, section eight
   Each case: the note on the first sheet, the model after it, checks at the end.

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