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Description of Financial Due Diligence

The huge growth in mergers and acquisitions means that typically 1 in 7 senior managerswill find themselves involved in an acquisition. Dealing with such a complex and high-riskenterprise can be daunting for the inexperienced. Effective financial due diligence iscrucial to success. You'll find all the guidance you need to successfully oversee the financial duediligence process in Financial Due Diligence: A guide to ensuring successfulacquisitions. It offers practical tools and techniques, along with sampledocumentation, to enable you to conduct an effective investigation and gives guidance onhow to instruct and brief external consultants. You will gain a comprehensive overview offinancial due diligence and how it fits into the wider acquisition process. Contents include: * Instructing investigating accountants * How to brief investigating accountants * Format of the financial due diligence report * Starting the investigation * How to conduct an investigation into: organisation structure and employees, cash flows, trading result, accounting policies, taxation and financial projections

Title Information

ISBN:

9780273642244

Pages:

160 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

12756

Publisher:

Pearson Education Limited

Published:

07/12/1999

Edition:

1st Edition

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About Stephen Bourne

Stephen Bourne is the London lead partner at BDO Stoy Hayward Corporate Finance. Stephen studied English Literature at Reading University before joining Pannell Kerr Forster in 1978. In 1983, two years after qualifying as a chartered accountant, he transferred to the corporate finance department, becoming a partner in 1988. He subsequently became National Director of Corporate Finance before leaving to join BDO Stoy Hayward in 1997. He was appointed lead corporate finance partner in 1998 and sits on BDO's national and international corporate finance committees. Stephen has advised a wide range of public and private companies on over 200 UK and international acquisitions over the last 16 years. While at PKF he developed a comprehensive corporate finance manual and is the author of BDO's internal investigations guideline. Stephen is a regular conference speaker on the subject of financial due diligence. BDO Stoy Hayward Corporate Finance BDO Stoy Hayward Corporate Finance is a rapidly growing adviser to entrepreneurial public and private companies. With around 50 corporate finance staff at the Central London office, additional specialists in a number of offices in the Home Counties and corporate finance departments in major regional centres, BDO advises on all aspects of corporate transactions, including the following: * acquiring public and private companies; * selling businesses; * raising private equity; * strategic reviews; * investigating investment targets; * reporting on flotations, rights issues and material acquisitions by PLCs.

Contents of Financial Due Diligence

- Instructing investigating accountants

- How to brief investigating accountants

- Format of the financial due diligence report

- Starting the investigation

- How to conduct an investigation into: organisation structure and employees, cash flows, trading result, accounting policies, taxation and financial projections