Investigating Entrepreneurial Opportunities

Two CPAs who have personally bought and sold multiple businesses wrote this 2000 SAGE textbook specifically to teach the due diligence process for evaluating and acquiring companies. The step-by-step coverage is thorough — markets, products, facilities, assets, insurance, short- and long-term liabilities — and the practitioner credentials give the guidance real applied weight. For entrepreneurship students or aspiring business buyers, the framework is a genuine asset. The limits are real: a 2000 publication date means the deal structures and digital business realities of today are not reflected, the format is dry academic prose without much narrative pull, and the audience is narrow. Still, within its lane, it delivers exactly what it promises from a credible publisher with credible authors.