Section 1
The diligence window
Plan the review, owners, deadlines, dependencies, and extension decisions.
Course
Due diligence
The demand list, and the framework for walking away. Killing a bad deal early is a result.
Course purpose
Who this course is for
This course is for a buyer entering formal diligence after an accepted offer. It is designed to keep the process tied to the facts that support price, financing, legal structure, and a workable transition.
Due diligence is an attempt to prove or disprove the acquisition case while the buyer can still change terms or walk away. A long document list is not enough. The records have to reconcile with each other and with what the seller said during evaluation.
The course organizes financial, tax, customer, employee, operational, contract, asset, liability, and transition questions into a controlled review. Missing access and repeated refusal are findings. Buyers do not need to diagnose the seller's motive before deciding that an unsupported material claim cannot carry the price.
A completed diligence process can support closing, a revised structure, an extension, or a decision to stop. Walking away from a deal that fails verification is a successful use of diligence.
Every open item receives an owner, source, due date, materiality judgment, and closing consequence. That turns diligence from a shared document folder into a decision system the buyer and advisers can review together.
Course outcomes
What you should be able to do
- Organize a diligence process around material acquisition claims.
- Reconcile financial statements, tax records, bank activity, and operating data.
- Track missing documents, conflicting explanations, and open decisions.
- Write a proceed, revise, extend, or walk recommendation with reasons.
Section 2
Document requests
Request the evidence needed to test earnings, ownership, obligations, assets, and transferability.
Section 3
Verification
Compare records with the tour, the CIM, seller statements, and the buyer's operating assumptions.
Section 4
Transaction structure
Identify liability and transfer questions for qualified legal and tax advisers.
Section 5
The stop rule
Define which unsupported claims, access problems, or economic changes require a pause or exit.
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The course deliverable
The paid course includes the complete diligence workflow and a documented proceed-or-walk decision. The public diligence kit provides a useful starting checklist without replacing the course or professional review.
Before you start
Complete Negotiating or bring an accepted offer with written contingencies and a defined diligence period.
Continue the work
Related guides, tools, and courses
Due diligence checklistRead the complete public checklist and document-request guide.Download the free diligence kitOrganize requests, questions, red flags, and closing readiness.Address history in Market ScoutPermits, inspections and licence history at the address where coverage is deep, with record ids to verify.Continue to financing and closingCarry verified facts into the funding package.
What you are and are not buying
Before you open a course you can have all of your money back, for any reason. Opening it delivers it, and after that the purchase is final.
That guarantee covers the instruction. It does not cover whether you buy a business, or what any business you buy earns or sells for. Nobody can honestly promise that, and anyone who does is selling you something.
There is no time limit on the first half of that and no exception to the second. Open nothing and ask, and you get everything back. Open it and it is yours.
Results vary. Nothing here is financial, legal, or tax advice.