Professional Effectiveness: Due Diligence

Catalog description

Due diligence is the process of evaluating a business’ key documents presented to current or potential stakeholders, such as business plans, SEC Form C filings, financial statements, business canvases and pitch decks. The evaluation process depends on a critical review of these documents, checking the assumptions, computations, and documentation of the businesspeople, asking questions of the businesspeople and doing additional research to test alternative hypotheses and assess the evaluator’s own ideas about the business. This course will help students understand how businesses present themselves to the world, and how to review these presentations to assess the firm's performance.