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Operations Due Diligence
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Operations Due Diligence

An M&A Guide for Investors and Business

James F. Grebey
McGraw-Hill, 2011

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

Operations consultant James F. Grebey shows you how to assess the operations and infrastructure of a firm, whether you’re an executive looking to increase the longevity and profitability of your company or a financier trying to evaluate the viability of a potential acquisition. This straightforward guide is packed with extensive checklists and 400 questions that will help managers and investors complete a thorough operational evaluation – and read between the lines when necessary. The information is extraordinarily well organized, and the author eschews jargon, preferring everyday language whenever possible, a habit that sets his book apart from many how-to manuals. getAbstract recommends this comprehensive work to investors and managers responsible for assessing a firm’s viability, and to employees whose firms are going through a due diligence evaluation because this basic understanding of the process will go a long way toward dissipating the clouds of unease that come with all those closed-door meetings.

Take-Aways

  • Due diligence is an evaluation method that investors and business managers use to determine a company’s risks, opportunities and overall potential.
  • “Operations Due Diligence” goes beyond the typical financial and legal examinations to investigate a business’s operational infrastructure.
  • The method has three phases: “planning for discovery,” conducting an “on-site assessment” and creating an “assessment report.”

About the Author

Veteran executive Jim Grebey heads Diligent Inc., an operations consultancy.

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