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Acquisition

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- Choice of procedures: merge all the assets/liabilities with yours ; buy the stocks, buy the individual assets. It is a complex mechanism: antitrust law, different taxations...
- Amicable or hostile take-over
• in practice of mergers from financial holdings ; MBO (management buy out) did not work in France
• Pb of all acquisitions
- asymmetric information
- corporate culture: the staff must agree, otherwise its behaviour could hinder the development of the merger
- cost of take-overs: banker, lawyers.

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Corporate finance

The subject: corporate finance

PART ONE: CAPITAL EXPENDITURE
The present value
Investment decisions
Practical problems in capital budgeting
Firms evaluation

PART TWO. BASICS OF FINANCE
The financial markets
Options
The market efficiency
Risk
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Control
International Financial Management

PART THREE FINANCING DECISIONS
Corporate financing
Dividend policy and capital structure

PART FOUR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Financial planning
Short-term financial management


Courses created and updated by Dr David Chelly, PhD in Management sciences from the University of Tours.