5Si utilizes a best-of-breed methodology with respect to its corporate due diligence that includes but is not limited to a review of:
- Corporate history and organization
- Corporate books and records
- Operations
- Financial information: assets, liabilities, equity, profitability, cash flow
- Financing
- Tax matters
- Insurance
- Employee information, records and benefits
- Management information, records and benefits
- Policies and procedures, internal controls
- Agreements and other arrangements
- Employee information, records and benefits
- Legal issues, litigation, red flag events
- Real property
- Personal property
- Intellectual propriety rights
- Regulatory oversight and filings, licenses and permits, compliance
- Plant and equipment
- Inventory
- Products and/or services, brands, warranties
- Market information
- Customer information
- Supplier information
- Competitor information
- Sales and marketing
- Environmental issues
- Information technology
- Disaster recovery and contingency planning
- Environmental issues
- Third party resources: lawyers, accountants, auditors, consultants
The review includes not just a cost benefit analysis, but also a risk based assessment.