What is the difference between an operating merger and a financial
merger?
Describe the way post-merger cash flows are estimated in a DCF
analysis.
What is the basis for the discount rate in a DCF analysis? Describe
how this rate might be estimated.
Describe the market multiple approach.
What are some factors that acquiring firms consider when they set a
bid price?
How do control issues affect mergers?
What is purchase accounting for mergers?
What is goodwill? What effect does goodwill have on the firm’s
balance sheet? On its income statement?
