Your Friend Susan Is Considering Purchasing an Existing Business

question 14

Essay

Your friend Susan is considering purchasing an existing business. How would you explain to her what due diligence is, why it is important, and the critical areas of it?

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Definitions:

Violence

The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation.

Sexuality

A complex integration of biological, emotional, social, and psychological factors that influence an individual's sexual feelings, thoughts, and behaviors.

Cleaning Compulsion

An obsessive need to clean or perform cleaning rituals, often related to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Cognitive-behavioral

Pertaining to a type of psychotherapy that combines cognitive and behavioral techniques to change patterns of thinking or behavior that are causing people's problems.