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Merger and Acquisition

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  • This topic has 4 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 9 years ago by AvatarJohn Moffat.
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  • November 23, 2016 at 7:26 am #350884
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    Sir, for finding the combined earning after the acquisition/merger, why sometime answer show Profit after tax from each companies plus synergy but sometime answer show equity value of each firm plus synergy.

    Is it acceptable both ways?

    November 23, 2016 at 8:12 am #350907
    AvatarJohn Moffat
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    Yes – subject to exactly what the question required you to do.

    November 23, 2016 at 8:18 am #350912
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    Thank you very much 🙂

    November 26, 2016 at 9:34 am #351564
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    Dear Sir,

    May I know how should I deal with a question of finding a WACC if the scenario provides more than one cost of debt (Kd)?

    Thank you.

    November 26, 2016 at 11:19 am #351609
    AvatarJohn Moffat
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    You calculate it in the same way as we always do.

    You calculate the cost of each sources of finance in the normal way, and then we take the weighted average of them using the total MV of each source of finance.

    It doesn’t matter how many sources of finance there are.

    My lectures will help you (especially the Paper F9 lectures on the calculation of the WACC, because more than 2 sources of finance can happen in F9 as well).
    (I assume you are not simply relying on the WACC formula on the formula sheet, given that that formula is rarely correct anyway)

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