Book description
Spending on M&A has, in aggregate, grown so fast that it has even overtaken capital expenditure on increasing and maintaining physical assets. Yet McKinsey, the leading management consultancy, reports that "Anyone who has researched merger success rates knows that roughly 70% fail". The idea that businesses might be using huge…
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1 author picked Accounting for M&A as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This brings together 9 specialists in accounting, economics, or statistics – from academe or practice – to tackle questions such as: does accounting manipulation affect the terms on which acquirers buy targets; are the post-merger accounts projected by bidders to be trusted; did the way targets were incorporated in the combine’s accounts affect share price?
It’s not a relaxing read – some heavy statistical work and disturbing conclusions: clever accountants have often been able to hoodwink investors before, during and after M&A transactions.
From Geoff's list on accounting for M&A.
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