Corporate Restructuring


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
Corporate restructuring is frightening, but it doesn't have to scare you to death! This course will show you how to initiate successful mergers or resist hostile takeovers. As well, it will improve your chances of surviving financial distress. Whatever your restructuring situation, you will be prepared to handle it by taking this course!

Target Audience
This course is designed specifically for business managers, financial professionals, and other business professionals who have the need to understand finance and investment in corporations, and to analyze their own businesses or the performance of another company.

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Mergers and Divestitures

  • recognize the benefit of following the procedures involved in corporate restructuring through mergers and divestitures.
  • determine the most appropriate type, form, and motives of a merger, given a scenario.
  • determine the appropriate valuation methods to value a target company in a business scenario.
  • determine the most appropriate antitakeover measures for the given scenarios.
  • determine the appropriate type of divestiture for a given scenario.
  • determine the best method of financing a merger, given a scenario.

    • Coping with Financial Distress

  • recognize the benefits of identifying financial distress in its early stages.
  • identify financial failure in given scenarios.
  • analyze financially insecure companies to determine the appropriate recovery alternative.

    • Course Number:
    FIN0215