Acquisition Essentials, 2nd Edition

Publisher’s acknowledgements

The original versions of the following appear in Due Diligence by Denzil Rankine, Mark Bomer and Graham Stedman, FT Prentice Hall, 2003:

Figure 6.1 ‘The acquisition process’; Figure 6.5 ‘Primary information sources’; Table 6.3 ‘Different key purchase criteria amongst customers of removals firms’; Table 6.4 ‘Relationship between KPC, CSFs and KPIs in the bicycle market’; Table 6.5 ‘A CDD report format’; Figure 6.7 ‘How CDD and FDD combine to build a view of forecasts’; Appendix A ‘Checklist for a financial due diligence investigation’; Appendix B ‘Checklist for legal due diligence’.

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