Cedar Hill offers a full service purchase accounting assistance approach to help financial profession in valuing and recording acquisitions. Cedar Hills services are lead with  Purchase Accounting Documentation Book that serves as a central depository of accounting methods and documents employed in recording the acquisition in accordance with GAAP.  The Book includes an executive summary explaining the valuation methods employed, all general ledger entries used to record the transactions, all valuation reports, purchase accounting amortization tables, and key acquisition documents (acquisition agreement, employment agreements, merger costs). 

The Purchase Accounting Documentation Book has been well received by Cedar Hills clients.  The book can be shown to companies internal auditors, external auditors and bank examiners to describe the transactions.  As part of this service, Cedar Hill will organize a purchase accounting committee of the bank and do weekly, or daily updates on issues as they arise and maintain a checklist of required activities/responsibilities.

Additional Services include:

• Intangible Asset Valuation
  - Core Deposit Intangible
  - Customer List Intangible
  - Non-Compete Intangible
  - Trade Name Intangible
  - Internally Developed Software Intangibles
• Loan Valuations
• Certificates of Deposit