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Economics, Politics and Business Environment
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Harvard Business Publishing
Length: 16 pages
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Abstract
The merger of two computer software firms with very rapidly growing non- overlapping products makes great strategic sense, but presents difficult valuation and accounting problems. How can a firm pay $225 million to acquire another firm with negligible current earnings, and which promises to produce an immediate $150 MM one-time charge to earnings which will be followed over a five-year period by $65 million of amortization of intangible assets?
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Industry:
Size:
USD100 million revenues
Other setting(s):
1993
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Abstract
The merger of two computer software firms with very rapidly growing non- overlapping products makes great strategic sense, but presents difficult valuation and accounting problems. How can a firm pay $225 million to acquire another firm with negligible current earnings, and which promises to produce an immediate $150 MM one-time charge to earnings which will be followed over a five-year period by $65 million of amortization of intangible assets?
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Location:
Industry:
Size:
USD100 million revenues
Other setting(s):
1993