Financial Due Diligence

About The Book

It is known that an effective Financial Due Diligence exercise is the cornerstone of a successful Merger & Acquisition deal between a prospective buyer and a seller willing to carry out an arm’s length deal throwing up a win-win situation for both. A robust Financial Due Diligence is even more necessary in today’s business environment to critically assess the health and hygiene of the target entity to drive a proper valuation acceptable to both constituents.

Key Features:

The book professes to address the following areas:

1. It starts with a curtain-raiser on corporate restructuring including the possible impact of the ongoing pandemic on the target organization.
2. It provides a broad commentary on the due diligence approach.
3. The seller-side approach to financial due diligence and the pitfalls leading to a proverbial black hole of valuation has been explained.
4. A deep dive is carried out into the buyer side approach to financial due diligence including a detailed checklist to review and evaluate each section of Financial Statements.
5. It delves into the tools used to handle financial due diligence, which is:

• • Financial modeling.
  • Financial statement analysis and use of financial ratios.
  • Various methods in use in Business Valuation with illustrations.
  • Distress Analysis of target entities.

6. It discusses in detail Enterprise Risk Management through control environment, mitigating and detective controls, and its impact on Financial Due Diligence approach.

Pages: 456 pages

Author: B D Chatterjee

Published on (Date): 30 September 2021

Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional India

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9390358841

ISBN-13  :  978-9390358847

Format:  Paperback

Keywords/Tags/Book Categories: ‘Financial Accounting’, ‘Law’, ‘Analysis & Strategy’

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