Essays on Merger And Acquisition

Southwest Airlines strategy

Learning Activity #1 Organizations have heavily invested in developing their strategy, and it is found that even the best strategies often fail. There are certain reasons behind that and organizations are unable to implement a sound strategy in an effective manner. During the last week, I have used the Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM) tool to evaluate the merger and strategy for Southwest Airline. It was identified that the strategy would be probably acceptable, and it is a more attractive strategy that can increase the performance and operational effectiveness of the company. The organization design has a significant impact ...

Southwest Airlines strategies

Southwest Airlines strategic planning is an ongoing process and struggling to meet the challenges and gain a competitive advantage in the market. During the last week, I have identified the strategy of the company through Space Matrix analysis and found that the company had focused the service development. It has designed low-cost carrier strategy to maintain the competitive advantage in the U.S market. The current strategy of Southwest Airlines has maintained its position in the market and attracted more customers (Southwest Airlines, 2015). Southwest Airlines can choose some other strategic alternative such as improve its sustainability through providing better ...

An Analysis of Merger & Acquisition Strategy

Introduction There has been a major fall in the oil prices in past two years from 2014-2016. The decline in oil prices has led to a major impact on the energy sector making it difficult for energy producer companies to survive. However, despite the falling oil prices and damp prospects, there has been a major announcement of merger and acquisition that touched the $300 billion dollar mark in 2016, while the deal announcements in 2015 were in the tune of $3.2 trillion across the globe. Most of the surge in the energy sector is attributed to some of the ...

Introduction

Under a merger, two business entities come together and become a new business with a new name. On many cases, the mergers bring together firms, which are equal in size and stature. On the other hand, an acquisition involves a larger and more powerful company buying another business; a smaller business. The purchased business may be fully absorbed by the parent company or in some occasions, may be operated as a subsidiary. The use of mergers and acquisitions may take place during any economic environment meaning that it may take place when the companies involved are both performing well, ...

Business

Assignment 2

The financial statement for the last seven years of the company shows improvement in earnings or revenue of the company every year. From 2009-2016, the revenue of the company showed significant improvement. This fact is also evident from ratio analysis of the company. The profitability of the company has increased from 2009-2016, return on equity in percentage has shown improvement in seven years, and in the same manner return on invested capital in percentage has increased. Further, return on assets in percentage has also increased, and interest coverage has also shown remarkable improvement. Growth has also been ...

Strategic management

Introduction Merger and acquisition (M&A) is a very common strategy that combines two or more organizations to become a new business. It is agreement between two companies’ to combine their different resources and run operations. In merger, one company is completely absorbed by other company. The merger and acquisition are changes in control of organizations that involve combining the operations of different entities into a single organization. The horizontal merger is a common method that exists between two organizations that are competing in the same industry such as energy sector. It can increase the market share and decrease the ...

Question 1

The most important and significant assets of the business are the customers. The decisions for the mergers and acquisitions are being made to acquire the trust of the customers they have. Holding the first and preliminary customers is one of the most difficult and toughest jobs, mainly after the merger and acquisition of the organizations. The ownership of the company does not mean to the customers as all they desire and want is the smooth, kind and flat service and treatment. Their expectations remain same that their work must be done in the same system and process as it ...

The economic uncertainty, the increasing regulatory pressure from the government and other entities as well as the rising competition leads to the escalation of merger and acquisition in the health care industry. In recent years, the health care industry has been affected by new federal and state laws that aims to improve health care services. While new health care policies and regulations has become beneficial to patients, it has caused a great economic strain, especially among smaller health care entities. This leads to the decision among many hospitals and health care institutions to align with other health care system. ...

Suggest the key financial drivers that most likely will cause health care organizations to merge. Provide support for your rationale. There are several key financial drivers that are more than likely going to cause health care organizations to merge. The first key financial driver is the challenges in the access to the capital. When the organizations do not have the investments that they want but they do have the potential for long-term grow they are going to face some challenges like the access to capital. This means that they might be taken over by the bigger firms. Healthcare has ...

Option 1

Part 1 The company selected for the assignment is Teledyne Technologies. Chart below shows the information regarding the company: The audit report of Teledyne Technologies Inc. for the year ended January 3, 2016 carried an unqualified opinion. The report stated that the consolidated statement of income, comprehensive income, cash flows, and stockholder’s equity for the year then ended presented fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the company and were in conformity with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles of United States of America. The company’s internal control for the year ended January 3, 2016 were also ...

Introduction

Joseph Dunn, the proprietor of Dunn’s ski emporium intends to acquire the deli across the street which is owned and run by George Atkins. Joseph intends the merger and acquisition to be part of an expansion to his ski emporium business. The challenge for Joseph Dunn is that he has no experience in running a deli. It would therefore be critical that Dunn involves George Atkins in running of the deli during the transitional period before he takes over the deli fully. The report is therefore intended to interrogate and come up with a suitable organizational structure to ...

A Merger and Acquisition (M&A) usually occurs when one firm or company acquires all assets and liabilities belonging to another company. There are majorly two types of mergers and acquisitions depending on what is involved (Cooke, 1988). The two forms of mergers and acquisitions are:

- Merger as a result of absorption: this happens through a combination of two or more companies into an existing company. Usually, the acquired companies lose their identity while the acquirer retains its name and identity. A classic example is the acquisition of AMC Entertainment by the Chinese Dalian Wanda Group Corporation Limited. In this ...

Business Environment

Introduction Strategies lie at the heart of an organization, and no organization could be in the sake of economic prosperity without utilizing and molding their operational and non operational strategies for the sake of organizational productivity in total. When it comes to organizational productivity, there are motley things which have to be in regular consideration for its productive both from financial and non financial angles in total (Kourdi Jeremy 2010, p.23).

It is more than important for the entities to utilize and mold their strategies in a perfect and well organized manner. It is an obvious thing that ...

Bahrain economic performance slowed down in the year 2009 and 2010, after enjoying economic prosperity. The slowdown tends to affect the finance sector and constructions. The political unrest in 2011 led to decline of merger and acquisition, as well as equity. The most targeted sector in Bahrain was the financial sector because it accounted to approximately 34% of the country activities. Despite the adverse economic climate in the region and political issues, various, merger and acquisition were completed in the region. For example, the merger between Al Salam Bank Bahrain BSC and Bahraini Saudi Bank BSc (Coyle, 2000). The ...

Introduction

Companies are now required to be very dynamic, efficient, profitable, adoptive, and forward looking in order for them to gain a dominant and ocmpetitive edge. Without these qualities, they cannot compete in a very international and globally compettive market. In some industries like in banking and insurance, they may transfer into new and foreign markets (Ashkenas & Francis, 2000). In others industries such as in medical products and suplies, companies may choose to work with smaller firms which have developed or are developing new products which they can manufacture and/or distribute more efficiently. Meanwhile, the rest of the ...

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This paper will address the different nuances of Health care company merger and acquisitions , specifically it will address the key financial drivers which prompt a merger, post merger analysis , financial planning in the post merger arena and the relevance of financial analysis in a healthcare organization. Finally the paper will address the current state of the healthcare system and what we can expect to see in the future.

Financial drivers that prompt mergers and acquisitions in Healthcare organizations.

Target company value: If the acquiring company feels that the target company to merge with is undervalued it would be a win fall for the former. Also from the perspective if the target company ...

Introduction

In the entire field of finance, there are certain aspects, theories and topics are interlinked with each other that will be used for all other purposes over the world. The financial management and aspect and functions are profound for the corporation for a core and long term effectiveness and determination. Among numerous things and aspects that will be used in the function of the finance and investment, there is a name of Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) is one of them (Mendenhall, 2013). M&A has now has significance for the management and for the organizations particularly because it is one of ...

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Draft 1 (10/11/2014) Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Operating Performance: a Case Study of UK Literature Review There could be multiple reasons of M&A, but the main reasons of merger and acquisition could be acquiring the brands, market access and the knowledge of the market. M&A can cover The possible loss in the company's image or product services. Merger and acquisition is one of the reasons to cover the business financial losses. The increase of foreign companies in mergers and acquisition is that these companies have the ability and power to expand the deals. Mergers and ...

Introduction

Every sphere of the corporate world has seen the integration through Merger and Acquisition. Merger and Acquisition (M&A) usually take place when two or more corporate entities join together their operations, either in part or full. The factors which play a large role behind such an activity include the relative size of the participating companies, their collective share in the market of operation, the ownership and control of individual partner after the combining of the business.

Merger and Acquisitions in Entertainment and Media Industry

As already mentioned before, Merger and Acquisition, are widely occurring phenomenon, encompassing every sphere of corporate activity. Thus, the field of Media and entertainment ...

Impact/Effect of Organizational Culture Change on Performance: Case study Kraft foods and Cadbury

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Research question 3 Research objectives 4 Literature Review 4 Methodology 5 Discussion and Finding 8 Conclusion 9

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Introduction According to Gibson, Ivancevich, Donnly, Jr, & Konopaske (2009) when companies merge financial success and the return on investment are the major considerations. Hardly do they think of cultural compatibility as it is considered as a soft factor. If there is a culture class, this could lead to a merger failure. According to Colquitt, LePine, & Wesson (2009), the success rate of cultural change is less than 20 percent. This is because it takes much effort to create ...

Mergers and acquisitions are a popular strategy for businesses both in the United States and, across borders. Although these two terms are often used in the same breath, the terms merger and acquisition bear some slight differences. A merger is an amalgamation of two or more firms whereby the assets and, liabilities of the selling company is absorbed by the buying firm. The buying firm may be a significantly dissimilar organization but after the merger, it holds its original identity. On the other hand, acquisition refers to the buying of an asset, for example, a division, a plant or even a whole company, with ...

INTRODUCTION:

Owing to increasing competition and technological advancements, organizations are looking for different innovative ideas and strategies to create sustainable competitive advantage. The purpose of these strategies and tactics is to improve the overall performance of the company. This eventually leads to the creation of wealth for the shareholders. The main goal or aim of an organization is to create wealth for the shareholders. All strategies and decisions of the organizations are directly associated with this aim and hence are evaluated on the yardstick of wealth creation for the shareholders. In today’s highly competitive environment organizations are engaging ...

Perhaps because of the extraordinarily high estimate of close to a 90% failure rate, there has been much commentary on the reasons behind the high risk of failure for mergers and acquisitions (Price, 2012). Although the 90% figure may have more to do with the way the researcher is defining failure than with any real measure of business risk, it remains that there is a significant possibility for merger and acquisition deals to go poorly. One effective way to examine key reasons for this involves examining decision points over time during the merger and acquisition process. At each step in the ...

Introduction

In an organization, the corporate level of management carries out the growth strategies of the organization. Growth strategies are employed to seek growth, sales, profit and market share or any other objectives the organization may have set. The growth strategies are expected to result to an increase in the organization value. Some of the growth strategies which may be implemented are vertical integration, horizontal integration, and diversification, take over, mergers and acquisition, strategic alliance and joint ventures. The strategies discussed leads to an increase in the market share of a firm. The strategies are also adopted to help the firm ...

In recent years, policy makers of organizations are using different growth strategies to perform well in market. This research study intends to explore growth strategies of Tata Motors and Jaguar and Land Rover. The second part of research study explores the growth strategies of Wal-Mart, one of the biggest retail grocery stores of the world. We examined the acquisition of pink n pay and we critically analyzed these growth strategies in this research study. For this purpose we collected data from Tata Motors and Jaguar Land Rover. Data was collected from scholarly research papers, companies’ annual reports and official ...

The case study method is a research method that uses a case, which is a “single example of some phenomenon of interest” (Veal, 2005, p. 169). As such, a case study is a type of research or study that focuses on a single event, product, workplace or workplace unit, or organization. However, it is also possible for a case study to involve more than one case, particularly if the objective of the study is to make a comparison of the cases involved. It should be noted, though, that even in such instances, each of the cases involved remain to be distinct from each other and can be ...

A Detailed Public Relations Plan to Efficiently Handle the Merger of ABC Ltd with MNO Ltd Which is scheduled after 3 Months from Now

Public relations: It is the outreach of the media that has popularized the event of public relations to an enormous extent. The availability of the online social forums has granted enough liberty to a common man to sometimes get his “not so true” comments about a company or a product published. Not that all the claims made are false or “just misinterpreted” but there needs to be someone who is constantly keeping a watch on what is being said ...

Question 4: Discuss the implications of the real options likely to be embedded in a multi-million pound capital budgeting decision on whether or not to accept such a proposed investment project and compare and contrast real-options with financial options (25 marks) Real option techniques are increasingly being used as the standard method of evaluating investment decisions whose uncertainties are quantifiable. Capital budgeting decisions are long-term strategic decisions that impact directly on the organization’s efficiency of its daily operations, cash flow, income statement, and the taxable income for the subsequent years; however, most organizations treat them as operating budget decisions. ...

Abstract

This is a comprehensive analysis on the M&A actions of Merrill Lynch and Bank Of America. This analysis incorporates the strategic examination of the different features that shaped synergies involving these two companies, putting them as the ideal constituents for a likely merger. This analysis also enlightens on the assorted features of M&A and the approaches of Mergers and Merger incorporation procedure. This analysis clarifies Merger as a procedure, which is well planned for the improvement of both the companies involved in it.

Introduction

The Bank of America is among the world's leading monetary establishments, providing individual customers, minute, middle market ...

Foreign Direct Investment

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is an investment made to acquire long-term interest in an enterprise operating in an economy other than that of the investor (World Bank, 2011). FDI has been more beneficial to both investors and host countries as compared to alternatives. The two parties, investors and host countries, engage in FDI and benefit in various ways. Investors gain new markets, attain efficiency, and aquire cheaper and more readily available resources, from the host countries.Moreover, FDI benefits the host countries by contributing to their economic growth, creating empolyoment, transfering technology and knowlegde, and increasing government revenue through ...