Big 4 FDD
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on 8/8/12 at 9:01pm
What exactly does the FDD (Financial Due Diligence) Group at Big 4 firms do? Specifically how is the FDD group at PwC considered? Lastly, what are your exit opps?





It's your standard due
It's your standard due diligence work. People typically transfer to a different position related to deals, move to another professional services firm doing the same or similar work, or move to the M&A department in industry.
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/group/big-4-accounting
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/group/entrepreneur
From
From :http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/ts-financial-due-diligence-vs-business-due-diligence
The job descriptions are as follows:
FINANCIAL DUE DILIGENCE
Financial Due Diligence (FDD) services provide support throughout the transaction life cycle on both the "buy side" and "sell side," to both strategic and financial buyers. This support includes pre-bid assessments, financial, tax, commercial, and information systems due diligence, integration risk assessments, and accounting and tax transaction advisory services.
BUSINESS DUE DILIGENCE
Business Due Diligence (BDD) services provide strategic advisory services to clients on matters throughout the Mergers and Acquisitions (M and A) deal life cycle. The BDD team helps clients evaluate acquisition candidates based on the achievability of managements’ future business forecasts and creates value from M and A transactions. The team helps clients make informed decisions on whether to proceed with the deal, how to value it, and how to develop thorough execution plans to maximize value. Clients are primarily private equity houses and strategic buyers.
Hope this helps, FDD is more popular of the two I believe.