• 90% feel comfortable recommending AM&AA membership to others in this field
• 88% see international connections with other M&A professionals as important
• 86% see educational webinars as important
• 84% see a buy and sell deal listings & exchange (Deal Exchange) as being important
• 70% feel the M&A professional credential (CM&AA) is important to them and the organization
• 65% feel that it is important to have AM&AA represented locally and regionally in chapters

WHY READ THIS:

� A business' IT systems pose significant risk in an acquisition of a small to mid sized company.

� It is important to define and manage realistic expectations for all parties.

� Companies have mitigated this risk through effective IT due diligence.

� It makes sense in an acquisition to have the IT systems cost effectively assessed by a professional with 40 years of experience in doing this work.

� The author has 40 years of experience in resolving systems problems in healthy and troubled firms with the charge - installing or fix it FAST, fix it RIGHT and fix it CHEAP.