Growing your business through acquisition
Learn how to grow your business through mergers and acquisitions and the pitfalls and issues to be aware of along the way.
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Course Type
E-learning
Length
3 - 5 hours
What you’ll achieve
- 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 this course
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.
Overview
E-learning |
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3 - 5 hours |
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Practice growth |
Syllabus
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 to access
You will be directed to an external site to complete purchase and VAT will be applied at checkout.