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Mergers and Acquisitions: Accounting Principles

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Course Features

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Duration

2 weeks

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Lifetime Access

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Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Effort

4 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

There are several key steps that will help ensure a successful merger or acquisition. This course will cover some of these steps and teach you how to use accounting and federal income tax principles for projecting earnings and cash flows.

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Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

Investigate how the Aggregate Deemed Sales Price and Adjusted Grossed-Up Basis are determined

Discuss the conditions that make a 338(h)(10) transaction economically feasible

Identify the mechanism of an IRC 338(h)(10) transaction

Interpret the conditions that make a 338(g) transaction economically feasible

Identify the mechanism of an IRC 338(g) transaction

Calculate the accretion and dilution of future earnings resulting from business combinations

Explain how to estimate the impact of target's unrecognised intangible assets on goodwill and the combined company's future earnings

Calculate the acquisition purchase price and transaction goodwill

Explore how net operating loss limitations may impact the combined company's future cash flows

Identify a targets' net identifiable assets by adjusting for existing goodwill, long-term asset write-ups and write-downs, LIFO inventories, deferred tax items, and fees

Describe the fundamental concepts for accounting for business combinations using the purchase model

Summarise the impact of phantom goodwill or phantom depreciation

Investigate the tax considerations for equity method investments

Describe the equity method of consolidation

Target Students

This course is ideal for financial analysts and associates

It is also suitable for directors and managers who have transitioned, or hope to transition, to mergers and acquisitions from other areas, such as equities or fixed income

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