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Mergers and Acquisitions Paper
How does a merge or acquisition impact a business? What benefits or consequences will a merge or acquisition have for a business? Will there be financial risks involved due to merging or acquiring a business from another country? How can the risks be mitigated? These are just a few of the concerns that an organization must consider whether they are merging or acquiring or being acquired or merged with. This paper will attempt to show the effects of mergers and acquisitions on organizations.
A merger is two organizations combining to become one and the organization that is acquiring, assumes the assets and liabilities of the organization that was merged with. An acquisition is a takeover of an organization by purchase of their assets or common stock. A merge or acquisition may impact an organization in may different ways. The main ways that an organization is impacted is with finances and assets. This can be a positive or negative impact if not researched properly and thoroughly. There are three ways that an organization can be acquired. They are by a merge of all the assets and liabilities from a target firm into the acquiring firm, purchase of stock of the target company also known as a tender offer, and the purchase of individual assets of the target.
A merger should make sense for the acquiring firm. The value of the two organizations may increase or be valuable together verses being separated. There should be a positive gain from economics of scale, economics of vertical integration, and the redistribution of surplus funds. Dubious reasons to complete a merge would include for diversification of risks or artificial growth increase. These reasons will not be b ...