Description
Bloomsbury India A Practical Guide To Financial Due Diligence by B D Chatterjee
About the Book
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.
About the author
B.D. Chatterjee [ACA, ACMA, ACS, Dip IFR (ACCA - UK)]
Mr.Chatterjee is a finance leader with over 35 years of rich industry experience in overall business and finance functions. He is a Chartered Accountant with CS and CMA qualifications and holds a diploma in IFRS from UK.
He possesses expertise in the implementation of best practices in finance, corporate governance, change management through business process and financial re-engineering, and Enterprise Risk Management. He has rich experience in Mergers and Acquisitions including financial due diligence and business valuation.
He has extensive knowledge and experience in industries like industrial gases, engineering polymers, agrochemicals, FMCG and dairy products, health care, and manpower services, among others.
Apart from consulting practice, he has handled many high-profile leadership positions like CFO/VP/Director Finance assignments in global MNCs (BOC Gases, DuPont, and Kelly Services) and large Indian conglomerates (Mother Dairy group, Max India).
Currently, he is associated with a reputed International Think Tank - ACCESS Health International Inc as their global CFO.
He is also an established author and his books are on contemporary business and finance topics like International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS), Enterprise Risk Management, Corporate Governance, and Business Valuation published by reputed publishers.