Accounting for Mergers and Acquisitions: Advanced Topics

Instructor: Oktay Urcan

Intermediate Level • 7 hours to complete • Flexible Schedule

What You'll Learn

  • ✓Account for and interpret economic events and transactions related to special types of divestitures including spinoffs and equity carveouts.
  • ✓Account for and interpret economic events and transactions related to corporate reorganizations such as leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations.
  • ✓Account for and interpret economic events and transactions related to tax issues in inter-corporate investments.
  • ✓Account for and interpret economic events and transactions related t financial statements analysis with inter-corporate investments.

Skills You'll Gain

Private Equity
Financial Modeling
Tax
Corporate Accounting
Corporate Tax
Financial Analysis
Financial Accounting
Capital Markets
Corporate Finance
Mergers & Acquisitions
Financial Statement Analysis
Investment Banking
Accounting

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Outcomes

  • Learn new concepts from industry experts
  • Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
  • Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
  • Earn a shareable career certificate

There are 5 modules in this course

Acquirer firms may divest their investments in other firms in some exotic ways. In this module, you will explore two notable special divestitures: spinoffs and equity carveouts.

Acquirer firms may obtain the control of target firms in some exotic ways. In this module, you will explore two notable corporate reorganizations: leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and recapitalizations (RECAPs).

Inter-corporate investments can result in special tax issues for target shareholders and target firms. In this module, you will explore taxable versus tax-free transactions, step-ups versus carryovers, deferred taxes, and miscellaneous acquisition-related tax issues including loss trafficking and goodwill taxation.

Financial statement analysis (FSA) builds models to evaluate past position and predict future performance of a firm using financial statements. In this module, you will explore FSA in the presence of inter-corporate investments and calculation of organic versus acquired growth.