Mergers & Acquisitions

Organic Growth vs Inorganic Growth

This guide explains organic growth vs inorganic growth. We’ll explain the difference between them and explain how each form of growth takes place. This guide covers concepts about mergers and acquisitions.

Financial Synergy

This guide explains what financial synergy is and why it’s important. Understanding financial synergies is important for understanding mergers & acquisitions (M&A). Financial synergy is what strategic buyers are looking to create in an M&A transaction.

Financial vs Strategic Buyers

This article aims to explain the difference between two categories of buyers—financial and strategic buyers. Financial and strategic buyers have different objectives for making acquisitions.

What Is A Teaser in M&A?

This guide is designed to familiarize you with the teaser, which is a document used in M&A (mergers and acquisitions) transactions. To begin with, here are some bullet points to understand the teaser as a document before we cover how it’s used in M&A.

M&A Process Terminology List

Here is a list of important terminology for understanding mergers and acquisitions. This list of terms is designed to help familiarize you with the “language” of M&A.

What is Goodwill in Accounting?

This post explains what goodwill is in accounting. We look at what goodwill is, how it is calculated, the conditions for amortizing goodwill, and why goodwill arises in M&A deals. Here are some key takeaways about goodwill:

Asset Purchase vs Stock Purchase

This guide is designed to quickly walk you through the decision to make an asset purchase vs stock purchase. When a business is bought or sold the buyers and sellers have a choice to make. Should they structure the deal as a purchase and sale of assets, or a purchase and sale of common stock.