Planning & Productivity Due Diligence Checklist

Conduct thorough due diligence on acquisition targets with a comprehensive checklist covering financial, operational, legal, and cultural dimensions critical to deal success. This prompt generates a customized assessment framework specific to your deal type and industry context, ensuring you don't miss critical evaluation areas. The checklist ensures you systematically evaluate critical areas including financial health and accounting practices, customer concentration and retention, technology dependencies and technical debt, integration complexity, regulatory compliance, employment matters, and cultural fit. Output includes specific assessment criteria for each area, red flags and deal-breakers to watch carefully, and a standardized scoring methodology to evaluate and compare multiple targets objectively. Effective due diligence surfaces deal-breakers early, quantifies integration risks and costs accurately, identifies value creation opportunities that influence purchase price negotiation, and informs integration planning and timelines significantly.