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BUSI 4510

Mergers and Acquisitions

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

The theory and practice of mergers and acquisitions; the best ways to analyze, design and implement mergers and acquisitions transactions. A highly practical planning-based approach to managing the acquisition process will be employed.

2025

Topics

  • Introduction to Mergers, Acquisitions, 1, 2
  • The Corporate Takeover Market 3, 4
  • M&A Cash Flow Valuation Basics 7
  • Financial Modeling Basics 9
  • No Class due to Reading Week
  • Analyzing and valuing privately held 10
  • Financing the Deal: Private Equity, 13
  • Wrapup & Presentations Group Acquisition

Readings

  • Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities, Edition 12 An Integrated Approach to Process, Tools, Cases, and Solutions DePamphilis, D. 12th edition, Elsevier, 2025
  • Damodaran on valuation, most recent edition.
2025

Readings

  • Investment Valuation, University Edition: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of any Asset Paperback Damodaran, A. 4th edition, Wiley, 2025, ISBN: 978-1394262731

Prerequisites & course information

Prerequisite(s): BUSI 3500 and BUSI 3502 (with a grade of C- or higher in each), and STAT 2602 or STAT 2607 (with a grade of C- or higher in each). Lecture three hours per week.

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