The FactSet Mergerstat Review is the cornerstone of any mergers and acquisitions library. This must-have resource delivers comprehensive rosters, data and statistics on merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions that involve U.S. companies, including privately held, publicly traded and cross-border transactions, and also lists unit divestitures, management buyouts, and certain asset sales.
The FactSet Mergerstat Review is the cornerstone of any mergers and acquisitions library. This must-have resource delivers comprehensive rosters, data and statistics on merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions that involve U.S. companies, including privately held, publicly traded and cross-border transactions, and also lists unit divestitures, management buyouts, and certain asset sales.
The FactSet Mergerstat Review is the cornerstone of any mergers and acquisitions library. This must-have resource delivers comprehensive rosters, data and statistics on merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions that involve U.S. companies, including privately held, publicly traded and cross-border transactions, and also lists unit divestitures, management buyouts, and certain asset sales.
Two strengths distinguish this textbook from others. One is its presentation of subjects in the contexts wherein they occur. The other is its use of current events. Other improvements have shortened and simplified chapters, increased the numbers and types of pedagogical supplements, and expanded the international appeal of examples.
Mergers and Acquisitions Basics: All You Need to Know provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts of mergers and acquisitions. Key concepts discussed include M&As as change agents in the context of corporate restructuring; legal structures and strategies employed in corporate restructuring; takeover strategies and the impact on corporate governance; takeover defenses; and players who make mergers and acquisitions happen. The book also covers developing a business plan and the tools used to evaluate, display, and communicate information to key constituencies both inside and outside the corporation; the acquisition planning process; the negotiation, integration planning, and closing phases; financing transactions; and M&A post-merger integration.This book is written for buyers and sellers of businesses, financial analysts, chief executive officers, chief financial officers, operating managers, investment bankers, and portfolio managers. Others who may have an interest include bank lending officers, venture capitalists, government regulators, human resource managers, entrepreneurs, and board members. The book may also be used as a companion or supplemental text for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, business strategy, management, governance, and entrepreneurship. - Describes a broad view of the mergers and acquisition process to illustrate agents' interactions - Simplifies without overgeneralizing - Bases conclusions on empirical evidence, not experience and opinion - Features a recent business case at the end of each chapter
While ideas and methods continually evolve in the business valuation profession, 2020 marked a year of challenges unlike any other. Always a highly-anticipated annual publication, the Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2021 covers the year's most groundbreaking and thought-provoking advancements on valuation methodologies in the face of a global pandemic. It also captures, changes in regulations and professional standards, key takeaways from the best virtual conferences, and tactical practice-building ideas. This critical desktop reference puts you ahead of the competition with on-the-ground reporting from valuation experts, thought-leaders, and BVR's expert editorial and legal teams.The Yearbook is divided into eight sections for easy navigation.
In the business valuation profession, ideas and methods continually evolve, making it imperative to stay current with the most innovative approaches and techniques, new court decisions, and regulatory and professional standards. BVR has you covered with the Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2019. This newest edition from the publishers of Business Valuation Update(BVU) covers the year's most groundbreaking and thought-provoking advancements on valuation methodologies, changes in regulations and professional standards, leading conferences, and practice-building ideas. This critical desktop reference keeps you ahead of your peers with on-the-ground reporting from valuation experts, thought-leaders, and BVR's editorial team. The Yearbook is divided into six easy to maneuver sections: Section I. Business Valuation Approaches, Methods, and Entity-Specific Issues: This section covers the latest industry news as well as the most discussed and most controversial business valuation topics that arose over the past year. Make sure you're in-the-know on topics such as the debate over the use of statistics in the transaction method, disagreements related to the use of calculation reports in valuation, methods to separate active and passive appreciation, work file checklists for fair value for financial reporting, and much more. Section II. Business Valuation Conference Coverage: Get on-the-ground reporting from the premiere business valuation conferences both in the U.S. and around the globe. Section III. Legal, Regulatory, Standards: It's imperative to stay current on the latest news regarding the legal, regulatory, and business valuation standards landscape. This section offers critical insight into how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will affect valuations going forward. Key issues include the deduction for "qualified business income" for owners of a pass-through entity as well as the limitation of business interest expense deductions. Also of note is the Department of Labor's (DOL) crackdown on ESOPs as well as the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's new standards to address ongoing audit deficiencies in fair value. Section IV. Business Valuation Profession and Practice Management: A number of articles in this section reveal insights into valuation firm performance and practice development. These comprehensive articles offer tips on how to bring in more business valuation work, as well as coverage of cutting-edge techniques to collaborate with the IRS. Section V. Reviews of Data Sources and New Books: This section includes an overview of BVR's launch of the new platform, Cost of Capital Professional and a review of the major upgrade of Pratt's Stats to DealStats. In addition, we have included reviews of Gary Trugman's 5th edition of Understanding Business Valuation: A Practical Guide to Valuing Small to Medium Sized Businesses, the new edition of Nancy Fannon and Jonathan Dunitz's Comprehensive Guide to Economic Damages, 5th edition, and insight into the significant enhancements made to the Mergerstat Review. Section VI. Data: This important section is an amalgamation of the monthly cost of capital data presented in tabular and chart form. It also includes aggregated data from DealStats, the valuation profession's leading data platform for private company transactions.
This one-stop information Guide helps practitioners whenever employee-owner compensation is subject to review and adjustment. In all private companies, an expense that is discretionary to the owner in terms of size, timing and payment method may represent not only compensation for services rendered, but also disguises dividends or profit distribution. The valuation of a business could be greatly affected by owner's compensation, or the lack thereof. This book is also an invaluable resource when valuing non-compete agreements or calculating personal vs. enterprise goodwill. If you purchased all these reports individually, the cost would be over $600.
This research handbook provides a state-of-the-art perspective on how corporate governance differs between countries around the world. It covers highly topical issues including corporate purpose, corporate social responsibility and shareholder activism.
An authoritative text on cost of capital for both the nonprofessional and the valuation expert -- now revised and expanded In endeavoring to practice sound corporate finance, there is perhaps nothing so critical, nor slippery, as cost of capital estimation. The second edition of Cost of Capital: Estimation and Applications combines a state-of-the-art treatise on cost of capital estimation with an accessible introduction for the nonprofessional. This comprehensive yet usable guide begins with an exposition of basic concepts understandable to the lay person and proceeds gradually from simple applications to the more complex procedures commonly found in the marketplace. New features of the revised and expanded Second Edition include chapters on Economic Value Added (EVA) and reconciling cost of capital in the income approach with valuation multiples in the market approach, as well as expanded coverage of cost of capital in the courts and handling discounts for marketability. Cost of Capital remains an incomparable resource for all parties interested in effective business valuation.
