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Introduction: Acquisition is a corporate term used to represent purchase of another company and gaining the ownership of the company.
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Concept Used:
Acquisition is a corporate term to define buying all of another company and gain the ownership of the company.
There are four steps in acquisition of company
- Identify the Acquirer
- Determine the acquisition date
- Measure the fair value of acquiree
- Record the acquiree’s assets and liabilities that are assumed.
Identify the acquirer: for acquisition it is very important for acquiree’s to know the acquirer.
Following things should be kept in mind voting rights, large minority interest, governing body of combined entity and terms of exchange.
Determine the acquisition date: this is the date that the acquiring firms makes payment by transferring assets, issuing stock, and assuming the liabilities of the company.
Measures the fair value of acquiree: the fair value of the aquiree as an entity is assumed to be paid by the acquirer. The price includes the contingent consideration, the costs of acquisition are not included in the price of the company acquired and expended.
Record acquiree’s assets and liabilities that are assumed: the fair value of all identifiable assets and liabilities of the acquire are determined and recorded.
Contingent consideration: contingent consideration is consideration given on the happening or non-happening of event. It is generally added in purchase consideration and increase goodwill.
Estimation of goodwill can be done by many methods
- By yeas of excess earning
- By excess earning continue indefinitely
- By excess earning continue for particular years on annuity
Calculation
Excess earning continues for
Goodwill= discounted present valued of
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