Audit and Contingencies Sample Clauses

Audit and Contingencies. 3.1 As provided for in the Preliminary Agreement, on January 27, 2003 Purchaser started an accounting, financial, legal, tax and operating audit in TCO and its controlled companies, as well as in all the documents and other elements related to SellersFinancial Obligations (the “Audit”). Said Audit shall be carried out in accordance with the usual market practices, Seller being required to make available to Purchaser, within a reasonable time, any and all documents reasonably requested by Purchaser for such purpose. With due regard to the procedures provided for in Section 3.2.2 below, by the end of the Audit, (a) the Actual Obligations (as defined in Section 2.2 above) shall cause adjustments to be made to the Price in accordance with the provisions of the referred Section 2.2, and (b) the contingent obligations, the undisclosed liabilities and the assets shortfall or differences ascertained in the Audit which have not given rise to the Price adjustment under the terms of Section 2.2 and which are defined as Contingencies in Section 4.2 below, shall be the subject matter of the Guaranty, as defined in Section 4.4 below and within the limits provided for therein. 3.2 For the purposes of this Section 3.2 and of Section IV below, the Contingencies shall be ranked as “probable”, “possible” and “remote”, in accordance with their probability of occurrence, and shall be valued at the rate of (i) one hundred per cent (100%) of their estimated loss value for those considered to be probable; (ii) fifty per cent (50%) of their estimated loss value for those considered as possible; and (iii) zero per cent (0%) for those considered as remote. In case, during the course of the Audit, Contingencies may be detected, in an amount ascertained in accordance with the referred ranking parameters, exceeding, either individually or in their aggregate amount, forty per cent (40%) of TCOPar’s total net worth as of December 31, 2002, based on the audited financial statements as of that date (copies of which are included in Annex 2.2 of this Final Agreement), Purchaser shall be entitled either to choose to go ahead with the Purchase, being guaranteed under the terms and with due regard to the limits of this Section III and of Section IV, or to terminate the Purchase, with consequent termination of this Final Agreement and not having, in this case, any obligation whatsoever in connection with the Purchase, including as far as it concerns the purchase of the Controlling Shares or an...

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  • Financial Statements and Condition (a) Prior to the execution of this Agreement, Seller has delivered to Purchaser true and complete copies of the audited consolidated balance sheets of the Company and the Subsidiary as of December 31, 1994, 1995 and 1996, and the related audited consolidated statements of operations, stockholders' equity and cash flows for each of the fiscal periods then ended, certified by Seller's Accountant. All such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP and fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial condition and results of operations of the Company and the Subsidiary as of the respective dates thereof and for the respective periods covered thereby except, in the case of the unaudited financial statements, for the absence of footnotes and normal year end adjustments which an audit would reveal. (b) Except for the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the transactions to take place pursuant hereto on or prior to the Closing Date, since the Audited Financial Statement Date there has not been any material adverse change in the Business or Condition of the Company, other than those occurring as a result of general economic or financial conditions or other developments which are not unique to the Company and the Subsidiary but also affect other Persons who participate or are engaged in the lines of business in which the Company and the Subsidiary participate or are engaged. (c) Since the Audited Financial Statement Date, neither the Company nor the Subsidiary has incurred any liabilities of a kind required by GAAP to be set forth on a balance sheet and which in the aggregate are material to the Business or Condition of the Company, other than liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business. (d) Except as expressly authorized or required by this Agreement, since December 31, 1996 neither the Company nor the Subsidiary has, and Seller covenants and agrees that from the date of this Agreement until the Closing Date neither the Company nor the Subsidiary will have,: (i) amended its certificate of incorporation or by-laws or comparable instruments or merged with or into or consolidated with any other Person, or changed or agreed to rearrange in any material respect the character of its business (except that the Company may amend its certificate of incorporation to change its name as contemplated by Section 12.16); (ii) issued, sold or purchased options or rights to subscribe to, or entered into any contracts or commitments to issue, sell or purchase, any shares of its capital stock; (iii) entered into, amended or terminated any (x) employment agreement, (y) adopted, entered into or amended any arrangement which is, or would be, a Company Plan or (z) made any change in any actuarial methods or assumptions used in funding any Company Plan or in the assumptions or factors used in determining benefit equivalences thereunder; (iv) issued any note, bond or other debt security, created, incurred or assumed any indebtedness for borrowed money, or guaranteed any indebtedness for borrowed money or any capitalized lease obligation, in each case in excess of $25,000 individually or in the aggregate; (v) declared, set aside or paid any dividends or declared or made any other distributions of any kind to its stockholders, or made any direct or indirect redemption, retirement, purchase or other acquisition of any shares of its capital stock other than cash distributions to its stockholders; (vi) knowingly waived any right of material value to its business; (vii) made any change in its accounting methods or practices or made any changes in depreciation or amortization policies or rates adopted by it or made any material write-down of inventory or material write-off as uncollectible of accounts receivable; (viii) made any wage or salary increase or other compensation payable or to become payable or bonus, or increase in any other direct or indirect compensation, for or to any of its officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents or other representatives, or any accrual for or commitment or agreement to make or pay the same, other than increases made in the ordinary course consistent with past practice; (ix) entered into any transactions with any of its Affiliates, stockholders, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents or other representatives (other than employment arrangements made in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice), or any Affiliate of any stockholder, officer, director, consultant, employee, agent or other representative; (x) made any payment or commitment to pay any severance or termination pay to any Person or any of its officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents or other representatives, other than payments or commitments to pay such Persons or its officers, directors, employees in the ordinary course of business; (A) entered into any lease (as lessor or lessee), (B) sold, abandoned or made any other disposition of any of its assets or properties other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice; or (C) granted or suffered any Lien on any of its assets or properties other than Permitted Liens and sales of inventory in the ordinary course of business; (xii) except for inventory or equipment acquired in the ordinary course of business, made any acquisition of all or any part of the assets, properties, capital stock or business of any other Person; (xiii) paid, directly or indirectly, any of its liabilities before the same became due in accordance with its terms or otherwise than in the ordinary course of business, except to obtain the benefit of discounts available for early payment; or (xiv) made any capital expenditures or commitments for capital expenditures in an aggregate amount exceeding $25,000.

  • Annual Operating Budget and Financial Projections Within sixty (60) days after the end of each fiscal year of Borrower Representative (and promptly and within five (5) days of any material modification thereto), an annual operating budgets, on a consolidating basis (including income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements, by month) for the upcoming fiscal year of Borrower Representative, as approved by Borrower Representative’s Board, together with any related business forecasts used in the preparation of such annual financial projections.

  • Financial Condition of the Borrower The Loans may be made to the Borrower without notice to or authorization from any Guarantor regardless of the financial or other condition of the Borrower at the time of such grant. Each Guarantor has adequate means to obtain information from the Borrower on a continuing basis concerning the financial condition of the Borrower and its ability to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents, and each Guarantor assumes the responsibility for being and keeping informed of the financial condition of the Borrower and of all circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Guaranteed Obligations.

  • Financial Conditions (a) The Recipient shall maintain or cause to be maintained records and accounts adequate to reflect in accordance with sound accounting practices the operations, resources and expenditures in respect of the Project of the departments or agencies of the Recipient responsible for carrying out the Project or any part thereof. (b) The Recipient shall: (i) have the records and accounts referred to in paragraph (a) of this Section including those for the Special Account for each fiscal year audited, in accordance with appropriate auditing principles consistently applied, by independent auditors acceptable to the Bank; (ii) furnish to the Bank as soon as available, but in any case not later than six months after the end of each such year, the report of such audit by said auditors, of such scope and in such detail as the Bank shall have reasonably requested; and (iii) furnish to the Bank such other information concerning said records and accounts and the audit thereof as the Bank shall from time to time reasonably request. (c) For all expenditures with respect to which withdrawals from the GEF Trust Fund Grant Account were made on the basis of statements of expenditure, the Recipient shall: (i) maintain or cause to be maintained, in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section, records and accounts reflecting such expenditures; (ii) retain, until at least one year after the Bank has received the audit report for the fiscal year in which the last withdrawal from the GEF Trust Fund Grant Account was made, all records (contracts, orders, invoices, bills, receipts and other documents) evidencing such expenditures; (iii) enable the Bank’s representatives to examine such records; and (iv) ensure that such records and accounts are included in the annual audit referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section and that the report of such audit contains a separate opinion by said auditors as to whether the statements of expenditure submitted during such fiscal year, together with the procedures and internal controls involved in their preparation, can be relied upon to support the related withdrawals.

  • Financial Statements; Financial Condition; Undisclosed Liabilities; Projections; etc (a) The audited annual and unaudited interim financial statements (as to the Borrower and as to its Subsidiaries on a combined basis) delivered to the Banks pursuant to Section 5.14(i) or Sections 8.01(b) and (c), as applicable, present fairly in all material respects the financial condition of the relevant Persons at the dates of said statements and the results for the periods covered thereby. All such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied and the financial statements as of and for the fiscal years have been audited by and accompanied by the opinion of Ernst & Young LLP, independent public accountants, or such other independent certified public accountants of recognized national standing reasonably acceptable to the Agents. (b) Since September 30, 2001, after giving effect to the Transactions, nothing has occurred that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. (c) On and as of the Effective Date, after giving effect to the Indebtedness (including the Loans) being incurred and Liens created by the Borrower in connection therewith (assuming the full utilization of all Commitments on the Effective Date), (a) the sum of the assets, at a going business value (i.e., the amount that may be realized within a reasonable time, considered to be six months to one year, either through collection or sale at the regular market value, conceiving the latter as the amount that would be obtained for such assets within such period by a capable and diligent businessman from an interested buyer who is willing to purchase under ordinary selling conditions), of the Borrower will exceed its debts; (b) the Borrower has not incurred and does not intend to incur, and does not believe that it will incur, debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as such debts mature; and (c) the Borrower will have sufficient capital with which to conduct its business. For purposes of this Section 7.05(c), "debt" means any liability on a claim, and "claim" means (i) right to payment, whether or not such a right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured or (ii) right to an equitable remedy for breach of performance if such breach gives rise to a payment, whether or not such right to an equitable remedy is reduced to judgment, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured or unsecured; provided that to the extent any such "claim" is not fixed, liquidated and contingent, the amount thereof shall equal the Borrower's good faith estimate of the maximum amount thereof.