Acquisition Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide to Smarter Deals - Softcover

Denzil Rankine; Peter Howson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273688618 ISBN 13: 9780273688617

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2006

Synopsis

If you are a manager who is new to the complex area of M&A, you need to learn quickly about what to look out for and what to avoid. Unprepared managers can be sucked along by the process and end up being disappointed, or even out of a job. This is the ultimate practical and easy to follow guide to Acquisitions.

About this title

About the Author

Denzil Rankine is Chief Executive of AMR International, a strategy boutique specialising in acquisition-related activity.

From the Back Cover

Do you really understand the business you are thinking of buying?

Have you worked out the realistic synergies?

What is the right price?

How well prepared are you for the negotiations?

What does all that lawyer speak mean?

Have you developed a clear integration plan in advance?

What is the distraction potential for managing your core business?

 

These challenges face every executive engaged in an acquisition.

Knowing the answers to these questions will help you and your business make the right choices, make the right decisions and deliver a successful acquisition.  These are the questions which Acquisition Essentials answers.

Acquisitions Essentials is the comprehensive and crystal-clear companion to making the right acquisition decisions and executing them well. 

It will guide you, step-by-step, through the M&A process.  It will help you understand the critical issues and master the critical interventions that make the difference between success and failure.

Edition details

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273688618
• ISBN 13: 9780273688617
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 215