Goodwill Impairment and Fair Value Measurement: Hewlett-Packard’s Acquisition of Autonomy Abstract In today’s business environment‚ mergers and acquisitions are becoming increasingly common. Mergers and acquisitions create many accounting challenges including issues of fair value measurement and the associated topic of goodwill impairment. The fair value measurement of an acquired company usually entails using a Level 2 fair value estimate‚ or using a market or income approach‚ both level three
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Cumulative amount of FDI in India from April 2000 to April 2011 has reached US$ 197‚935 million. INDIAN AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR Automotive Industry‚ globally‚ as well in India‚ is one of the key sectors of the economy. Due to its deep forward and backward linkages with several key segments of the economy‚ automotive industry has a strong multiplier effect and acts as one of the drivers of economic growth. Indian automotive industry produces a wide variety of vehicles: passenger cars‚ light‚ medium and heavy
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Reaching The Real India Distribution strategies for FMCGs in the rural Indian landscape A paper byAnurag Kumar (10) Bhuvan Deep Dua (20) Himanshu Goyal (30) Nitika Gupta (38) Pramod Kumawat (40) Sahil Jain (50) CONTENTS TITLE Abstract Introduction The FMCG Sector in India Challenges Distribution Channels Various Distribution Strategies Haat Activation Use of Affinity Groups Co-operative Institutions Mobile Traders Hub and Spoke Distribution Syndicated Distribution Conclusion
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FMCG firms in a fix over pricing strategy | | | | Some relief is on the way for fast-moving consumer goods( FMCG) companies‚ with prices of crude oil‚ wheat‚ milk and palm oil either on the decline or stabilising. Even as flexible packaging prices — which had become a new headache for FMCG companies — may come down on the back of stable crude oil prices‚ the verdict on production costs is still unclear. While palm oil prices have crashed by almost 40 per cent‚ wheat and milk rates are
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HUTCH & VODAFONE MERGER A brief study on Voodafone’s purchase of stake in Hutchison Telecom International GLOBSYN BUSINESS SCHOOL HUTCH "Hutch" is the GSM mobile network of Hutchison Teleco Limited‚ which is a fully owned subsidiary of Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited (HTIL)‚ a listed company in the New York and Hong Kong stock markets. HTIL is a leading provider of telecommunications services‚ operating or rolling out mobile telecommunications services in 9 countries‚ offering
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previous competitor‚ and should use this information to their ultimate advantage‚ maintaining the most effective practices of each airline while discarding those that are no longer viable. (Wheelen 27-3) On a positive note‚ the merger with Northwest did reduce
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KPMG Scott London: Insider Trading Krystal Johnson 521/MGT - Management October 6‚ 2013 Mr. Kevin Stone KPMG Scott London: Insider Trading Background Scott London was the audit partner at one of the largest accounting firms in the United States‚ KPMG. Between October 2010 and May 2012‚ London gave confidential information regarding several firms to his golfing friend Bryan Shaw‚ who was a jewelry store owner‚ then traded stocks with the information provided. The firms that were compromised included
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Brief History Market share of Ranbaxy Background of Daiichi Sankyo Brief History Market share of Daiichi Sankyo SPOT Analysis of the Indian Pharma Industry Resaons for the Deal Why Ranbaxy did it Why Daiichi Sankyo did it Disadvantages of the deal The Deal Shareholding Pattern Interpretation of the Shareholding pattern Financing the Deal Effects of the Acquisition Benefits for Ranbaxy Benefits for Daiichi Sankyo Benefits for the combined company Impact on the Stock Market Shortcomings of the Deal
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Steel Tata Steel Limited (NSE: TATASTEEL‚ BSE: 500470) (formerly Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited (TISCO)) is an Indian multinational steel-making company headquartered in Mumbai‚ Maharashtra‚ India‚ and a subsidiary of the Tata Group. It is the 12th-largest steel producing company in the world‚ with an annual crude steel capacity of 23.8 million tonnes‚ and the largest private-sector steel company in India measured by domestic production. Tata Steel has manufacturing operations in 26 countries
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consumer market. Sprint Nextel merger took place in 2005 when sprint acquired a large stake in Nextel communication and wanted to become the third biggest telecommunication provider after the AT&T and Verizon. Reason to Fail Merger The major reason behind the failure of the merger was the differences between the culture of both companies Sprint was bureaucratic and Nextel was entrepreneurial .Due to these differences within short period of time after the merger Nextel executive and middle level
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