securities through corporate restructuring Types of Corporate restructuring : 1. Mergers or amalgamation The words mergers and amalgamation are always interchangeable but there is slight difference in mergers and amalgamation. Merger is fusion of two or more entities and it is a process in which the identity of one or more entities is lost (as is often seen when political parties merge). In the case of a merger‚ the assets and liabilities of a company get vested into the assets and liabilities
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Excellence in Financial Management Course 7: Mergers & Acquisitions (Part 1) Prepared by: Matt H. Evans‚ CPA‚ CMA‚ CFM This course (part 1) provides a concise overview of the merger and acquisition process‚ including the legal process‚ federal regulations and due diligence. The purpose of the course is to give the user a solid understanding of how mergers and acquisitions work. This course is recommended for 2 hours of Continuing Professional Education. In order to receive credit‚ you will need
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On the Importance of Managing Intangible Assets as Part of Corporate Strategy Abstract: Given that a high number of companies return value to investors via acquisition rather than a public offering the development of intangible assets is the bait that sets up the acquisition. This paper discusses how companies can fast track to high valuation by strategic growth of certain intangible assets such as customer tribes‚ brands‚ and intellectual property‚ comparing those strategies to larger companies
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Story 1 – Facebook buys Whatsapp Facebook has bought instant messaging service Whatsapp for £11bn‚ giving Facebook access to Whatsapp 450 million users. The deal was split into £2.4bn in cash‚ £7.2bn in Facebook shares and £1.8bn in restricted stock awards for the Whatsapp founders and employees. Facebook has also paid a break fee of £1.2bn (Rushton 2014). Facebook’s acquisition of Whatsapp can be described as a hostile takeover in effort for Facebook to monopolize on the Internet market
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ual MERGER & ACQUISITION IN INDIA: An Analytical Study by Harpreet Singh Bedi Sr. Lecturer‚ Department of Management Lovely School of Business Lovely Professional University Mobile no- 9855267392 Harpreet.bedi_lim@yahoo.com Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1618272 MERGER & ACQUISITION IN INDIA: An Analytical Study Abstract The process of mergers and acquisitions has gained substantial importance in today’s corporate world. This process is extensively used for restructuring
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Corporate Restructuring: Corporate restructuring is one of the most complex and fundamental phenomena that management confronts. Each company has two opposite strategies from which to choose: to diversify or to refocus on its core business. While diversifying represents the expansion of corporate activities‚ refocus characterizes a concentration on its core business. From this perspective‚ corporate restructuring is reduction in diversification. Corporate restructuring is an episodic exercise‚
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The term “Affirmative Action” originated from the United States of America to prohibit unfair discrimination against certain groups of people because of non job related characteristics in terms of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 . Canada was not far behind in this movement‚ “Affirmative Action” was set in place through the “Canadian Employment Equity Act” for the same purpose. After reading through the articles as well as some supplemental material revolving around affirmative action I have concluded
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Affirmative Action In the Human Rights Act‚ Chapter 214 of the revised statutes‚ 1989‚ it states that "in recognition that human rights must be protected by the rule of law‚ this Legislature affirms the principal that every person is free and equal in dignity and rights without regard to race‚ religion‚ religious creed‚ colour‚ sex‚ physical or mental disability or ethnic or national origin." Unfortunately though‚ sometimes this law is not always abided by. Women‚ aboriginal people who are physically
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Seeking to fight past discrimination in their city‚ the city council of Richmond‚ Virginia created a program that required 30% of all municipal contracts go to Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs). In 1989‚ the J.A. Croson Company challenged the program‚ after not receiving a contract because of the MBE program‚ arguing it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The court ruled in favor of the Croson Company stating‚ “While there is no doubt that the sorry history of both private
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Affirmative action ultimately fails in its attempt to address the social imbalance caused by past discrimination because it only treats the symptoms rather than the cause. Do you agree? A growing number of equality programs‚ also known as affirmative action‚ which include quotas‚ minority scholarships and job opportunities based on diversity‚ have been proposed by governments throughout the world‚ as measures to diminish the inherited discrimination towards different groups of our society. But what
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