We worked on his homework on short term financing including calculating the cost of short term loans, managing credit cards, factoring accounts receivable to raise cash, and commercial paper transactions.
We worked on his homework including mergers and acquisitions, the reasons for combining businesses, types of transitions, calculating cash and stock purchases, and the difference between a merger and an acquisition.
We completed his final exam with 4 IRAC analyses, Then, he completed his discussion posts for the week. He is basically done with this semester! He just has one presentation to create on powerpoint for his Professional Speaking course, and he should be fine with that.
We completed the homework assignment including the tax effects of an acquisition by calculating the companies tax liability and earnings after taxes, the tax liabilities before and after the acquisition, and evaluating whether or not the acquisition results in a net positive gain and calculating the ratios of exchange and Earnings Per Share (EPS) for a stock swap acquisition given different ratios of exchange.
We researched the discussion question concerning mergers and acquisitions. He had to choose one of the more famous cases and discuss it and the major issues associated with these kinds of transactions like how to keep key people, merging the cultures, merging the technologies, etc.