Financial Due Diligence Meeting Agendas — Kick-Off and Management Discussion, Five Industries
Originally published: 05/09/2026 11:49
Publication number: ELQ-98527-1
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Financial Due Diligence Meeting Agendas — Kick-Off and Management Discussion, Five Industries

Ten documents: a kick-off and a management discussion, each written in five industry versions. 90 to 160 questions per document.

Description
Ten agendas: a kick-off meeting and a management discussion, each written in five industry versions — General, Healthcare Provider, Construction and Development, Manufacturing and Distribution, and Services and Recurring Revenue.

Between 90 and 160 questions per document, ordered the way the meeting actually runs. The kick-off covers objectives, transaction background, the business, ownership and related parties, the finance function, systems and data availability, management reporting, and the request list. The management discussion covers earnings quality, cost and margin, payroll, non-recurring items, working capital, debt-like items, capital expenditure and the forecast.

THE SECTION MOST AGENDAS ARE MISSING
Where a vendor due diligence report already exists, part of the meeting is an examination of that adviser's work rather than of the business — whether an update was a re-performance or a roll-forward, whether a trial-balance-level databook exists, and for each adjustment whether it was historically tracked or built for the process. That section is in every version.

EACH DOCUMENT CARRIES
  • A meta block and a purpose note
  • An attendees table
  • A numbered contents page
  • A follow-ups table

FORMAT
10 .docx files plus PDFs. Fully editable.
All original material and generic professional practice. No firm names, no client data, nothing proprietary. Yours to use on as many engagements as you like.
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Further information

Chair a kick-off or a management discussion without missing the questions that decide the adjustments, and circulate an agenda that lets management prepare.

You have a kick-off or management meeting coming up on a financial due diligence engagement, in any of the five industries covered or none of them.

You want a script. These are deliberately long and are meant to be cut down for the target — an agenda that has not been edited is an agenda nobody has thought about.


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