Charles Haines

Executive summary

Charles is a Director in BDO’s Advisory team in Brisbane. With over 20 years’ experience, he advises clients across a range of industries on corporate and debt issues.

His extensive experience has led to boards, financiers, and government engaging him to undertake financial viability assessments, pre-lend reviews, investigating accountant’s engagements, and due diligence reviews.

Expertise

• Developing risk-adjusted capital models
• Three-way forecasting
• Data analytics
• Financial statement analysis
• Developing and analysing cashflow and identifying key business levers and the impact of key contract terms
• Business finance arrangements
• Impacts of a broad range of legislative frameworks (e.g. Personal Property Securities Act 2009)
• Legislative and judicial rulings on solvency and the relevant tests the courts implement in undertaking these assessments
• Developing action-oriented plans to help clients undertake dynamic business change, with a view to promoting growth and profitability

Experience

• Financial assessments of not-for-profit organisations on behalf of a state government, and assessing financial and operational impacts associated with NDIS implementation
• Financial and operational review of COVID-19 impacts for an ASX-listed entity
• Investigative accountant’s and due diligence assignments for global accounting firms and major regional banks
• Pre-lend financial review reports for financiers
• Ongoing financial analysis of multiple national and international specialist invoice financiers, including bi-annual client reviews and pre-lend reviews
• Financial viability assessments and solvency reviews to support litigation-voidable transactions and insolvent trading.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Business (Banking & Finance)
• Master of Business (Accounting)
• Graduate Diploma of Chartered Accounting
• ARITA Graduate Certificate
• Member, CA ANZ
• Member, Turnaround Management Association