A Practical Guide to Financial Due Diligence
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Edition: 1st
- ISBN: 9789390176625
- No.of Pages: 457
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 the constituents.
This book will equip you with the knowledge, practical tools and techniques you need to enable you to conduct an effective financial due diligence. It also discusses aspects of corporate restructuring including the possible impact of the ongoing pandemic on the target organization.
Key Features
- A curtain raiser on corporate restructuring.
- Impact of the ongoing pandemic on the financial due diligence exercise on the target organization.
- Broad commentary on the due diligence approach with broad emphasis on financial due diligence.
- The seller side approach to financial due diligence and the pitfalls leading to proverbial black hole of valuation.
- Deep dive into the buyer side approach to financial due diligence.
- Financial modelling as an important tool use for financial due diligence.
- Financial statement analysis and use of financial ratios with illustrations to support the conclusions of financial due diligence.
- Various methods used in Business Valuation with illustrations.
- Risk Analysis and Management as an integral part of financial due diligence exercise.
- Distress Analysis of target entities.
- Illustrations and case studies picked up from practical experience of the author.
- Contains a questionnaire for guideline on how to carry out a financial due diligence exercise.
B D Chatterjee is a finance leader with CA, CMA, CS and Dip IFR (UK) qualifications having 35 Years rich experience in overall business and finance function.
He possesses expertise in CFO solutions having specialization in areas which include commercial accounting and audit, management accounting and MIS, developing budget and business plan and implementing budgetary control, business strategy and structuring and business valuation, financial management and debt syndication through banks and financial institutions.
He has rich experience in Mergers & Acquisitions including financial due diligence and handling negotiations between investors and target companies, managing implementation of many ERP projects in SAP and Navision, including change management and re-engineering of business processes.
He has handled many high profile leadership positions like CFO/VP/Director Finance assignments in global MNCs (BOC Gases, DuPont, Kelly Services) and large Indian conglomerates (Mother Dairy group, Max India) and possesses years of experience in industries like industrial gases, engineering polymers, agro chemicals, FMCG and dairy products, health care and manpower services among others. Currently he is associated with an International Think Tank as their Global CFO.
Apart from his consulting assignments, he has also authored books on Corporate Financial Reporting, Corporate Governance, Risk Management, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs), Indian Accounting Standards (Ind ASs) and Business Valuation to name a few.
Bloomsbury Professional India brings out quality content on tax, accounting and law for professionals in India. Bloomsbury Professional is part of Bloomsbury, a UK based company with offices in London, Oxford, New York, Sydney and New Delhi. The New Delhi based office of the publisher, have over the past few years of operations in India, brought out several market leading books and aims to be the first choice of professionals.
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- Year of Publication: 2020
- Edition: 1st
- ISBN: 9789390176625
- No.of Pages: 457
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 the constituents.
This book will equip you with the knowledge, practical tools and techniques you need to enable you to conduct an effective financial due diligence. It also discusses aspects of corporate restructuring including the possible impact of the ongoing pandemic on the target organization.
Key Features
- A curtain raiser on corporate restructuring.
- Impact of the ongoing pandemic on the financial due diligence exercise on the target organization.
- Broad commentary on the due diligence approach with broad emphasis on financial due diligence.
- The seller side approach to financial due diligence and the pitfalls leading to proverbial black hole of valuation.
- Deep dive into the buyer side approach to financial due diligence.
- Financial modelling as an important tool use for financial due diligence.
- Financial statement analysis and use of financial ratios with illustrations to support the conclusions of financial due diligence.
- Various methods used in Business Valuation with illustrations.
- Risk Analysis and Management as an integral part of financial due diligence exercise.
- Distress Analysis of target entities.
- Illustrations and case studies picked up from practical experience of the author.
- Contains a questionnaire for guideline on how to carry out a financial due diligence exercise.
B D Chatterjee is a finance leader with CA, CMA, CS and Dip IFR (UK) qualifications having 35 Years rich experience in overall business and finance function.
He possesses expertise in CFO solutions having specialization in areas which include commercial accounting and audit, management accounting and MIS, developing budget and business plan and implementing budgetary control, business strategy and structuring and business valuation, financial management and debt syndication through banks and financial institutions.
He has rich experience in Mergers & Acquisitions including financial due diligence and handling negotiations between investors and target companies, managing implementation of many ERP projects in SAP and Navision, including change management and re-engineering of business processes.
He has handled many high profile leadership positions like CFO/VP/Director Finance assignments in global MNCs (BOC Gases, DuPont, Kelly Services) and large Indian conglomerates (Mother Dairy group, Max India) and possesses years of experience in industries like industrial gases, engineering polymers, agro chemicals, FMCG and dairy products, health care and manpower services among others. Currently he is associated with an International Think Tank as their Global CFO.
Apart from his consulting assignments, he has also authored books on Corporate Financial Reporting, Corporate Governance, Risk Management, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs), Indian Accounting Standards (Ind ASs) and Business Valuation to name a few.
Bloomsbury Professional India brings out quality content on tax, accounting and law for professionals in India. Bloomsbury Professional is part of Bloomsbury, a UK based company with offices in London, Oxford, New York, Sydney and New Delhi. The New Delhi based office of the publisher, have over the past few years of operations in India, brought out several market leading books and aims to be the first choice of professionals.
