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What is Due Diligence?
Due diligence is an essential process utilized by individuals, companies and investment firms to evaluate a potential merger, acquisition, or investment. Business buyers will conduct due diligence on a target company to confirm the accuracy of the seller’s claims, mitigate risk, and garnet deeper insight into the operations – prior to committing to the deal. While the due diligence process can be extensive and time consuming, it can help prevent costly surprises later on.
SME vs. SMB
An SMB is a small-to-medium sized business, while an SME is a small-to-medium sized enterprise. Depending on whom you ask, there are several definitions and key differentiators that influence the classification. A widely accepted definition of SMB and SME is based on the number of employees and annual revenues – and even those classification ranges can vary. At DueDilio, we consider any business with annual revenues of $1-$10 million to be an SMB. Any business with revenues larger than $10 million we classify as an SME.
When conducting due diligence, an SME will typically have a more complex process. Our SME Due Diligence Checklist is specifically tailored to address those areas.
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SME Due Diligence Checklist
This SME Due Diligence Checklist contains some of the most common items related to evaluating a potential SME (small and medium enterprise) acquisition.
Items included in this due diligence checklist:
- Corporate Matters
- Finance
- Operations
- Labor Relations
- Tax
- Regulatory & Legal Matters
- Environmental Matters
- Intellectual Property
- Real & Personal Property
- Industry
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