Growing Your Business Through Acquisition
Making the decision to grow your business through acquisition should not be one that is taken lightly. This course will guide you on how to grow your business through mergers and acquisitions and the pitfalls and issues to be aware of along the way.
£100 +VAT
Growing Your Business Through Acquisition
£100 +VAT
Growing Your Business Through Acquisition
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This course will enable you to
- Consider whether a takeover or a merger is the right step for your organisation
- Understand how to value a company and finance an acquisition
- Identify the most appropriate ways to merge businesses and recognise the potential challenges involved
- Consider the issues arising from a takeover or merger from the viewpoint of customers, suppliers, and business assets
- Identify and apply the right accounting and finance processes
About the course
There are various options to consider when growing your business. This course focuses on expansion through buying another business or merging with a partner business. Whether it’s a merger or a takeover, expanding a business in this way requires a leap into the unknown; no matter how much preliminary investigation and negotiation you do, the full truth never emerges until the businesses are affiliated.
This course provides you with the tools and techniques you need to be able to understand how to grow your business and the pitfalls and issues to be aware of. This course will enable you to gain the knowledge and skills needed to successfully manage a merger or acquisition.
Contents
The right move?
The difference between takeovers and mergers
The difference between takeovers and mergers
Reasons for expanding your business
Making a big decision
When a takeover goes wrong
Explaining due diligence
Due diligence and the acquisition process
Financing the deal
The cost of a takeover
The additional costs of a takeover
Understanding business valuation
The cost of borrowing and the risk premium
Reducing the risk premium
Mezzanine financing
Merging the businesses
Identifying synergies in operations
Merging employees
Dealing with management
Reducing costs post-takeover
Redundancies and cost savings
Understanding cultural blending
A clash of cultures
Identifying bottlenecks and problems
Customers, suppliers, and assets
Dealing with customers
Retaining customers following a merger/takeover
Understanding the management challenge
Managing your suppliers
Maintain a good working relationship with suppliers
Accounting and finance
What factors should you consider?
Merging MIS
Choosing a new system
The benefits of an effective management information system
Overheads and the effect on pricing
Revising the processes
Thinking about your processes
Cashflow planning
Taking write-offs and provisions
How it works
Author
John Taylor
John is a Chartered Accountant who has spent many years advising small and medium-sized businesses across the North of England. John is the author of two industry standard textbooks: Millichamp – Auditing and Forensic Accounting. He has also written several auditing textbooks for AAT courses.
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