companies completed the ideal merger? The thesis analyzes the mergers in chronological order of the merger deals starting from …The mergers between AT&T and Cingular, Sprint and Nextel, and Verizon and Alltel telecommunication companies have … companies in each merger as separate entities before the merger, the actions they took while completing the merger, and the new …

accrual methods of accounting. Most owners or managers did their own day-to-day accounting, and most employed an outside CPA … what kinds of accounting methods small-volume homebuilders are using. …

evaluate the grouping methods in a hedging framework by assessing their ability to reflect relationships consistent with theory …

governance shifts in power cause creditors to enforce stricter rules on management’s actions, making sure that the acquisitions …

Acquisitions continue to be an important topic for management scholars and practitioners alike. Managers are actively …

that are each comprised oftwo complementary components. It confirms that all prices fall as aresult of a vertical merger …, competition between themreduces prices (in comparison to full monopoly) thereby eliminating theusefulness of a vertical merger in …

electricity industry has spawned a new wave of mergers, both raising questions and providing opportunities to examine these … mergers. Third chapter of my dissertation investigates the drivers of electric utility mergers consummated between 1992 and … 2004. My results provide support for disturbance theory of mergers, size hypothesis, and inefficient management hypothesis …