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Breaking down the M&A Case Study

Tom Spencer

Can the buyer easily finance the acquisition? Rationale: The main reason IBM decided to buy these 40+ companies is that they could all benefit from the firm’s global sales force. Situation #2: In 2010, Apple decided to buy Siri , its now famous voice assistant. What’s the acquisition rationale? Apple Acquisition.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Revenue: $1.35B (2010). And, of course, their claim to fame, Financial Services , is broken down into even more practices including: Finance and Risk. Corporate and Finance and Advisory. All degrees are welcome to apply, but the firm attracts those with a demonstrated interest in banking, finance, and business administration.

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Japan Tells Firms "Stop Sitting on Cash", Ignore the Lack of Customers

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Instead, it is sitting on a pile of cash worth about $280 million—50% higher than its pile a decade ago, equivalent to one-fifth its annual sales, and more than twice the level required for the firm to be deemed loan-worthy by a bank. 2010-02-12 Max Keiser.

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The U.S. Economy Is Suffering from Low Demand. Higher Wages Would Help

Harvard Business

Higher pay throughout the industry helped lead to more sales, creating a virtuous cycle of growth and prosperity. Looking closer at the period following the financial crisis, 2010 to 2014, we find that weak demand played a key role in the recent productivity growth decline to historic lows. Could we be at another Henry Ford moment?

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The Real (and Imagined) Problems with the U.S. Corporate Tax Code

Harvard Business

companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. And in practice, the foreign income of U.S. Further, U.S.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

Management Consulted

and status of financial commitments – commitments like sales orders, purchase orders, payroll, inventory, shipping, and taxes. In 2010, PwC continued the trend by buying out Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, Inc., 2010 PwC #4 as “World’s Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises” in the Global Make Study.