I'm kind of astonished that the buyer isn't requiring audited financials. Is this normal business practice? Perhaps this is why the TA was gagged, to do an audit? Maybe they're doing an audit now and if the buyout doesn't go through they'll say, "Hey, but look at these audited financials!"
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
