Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures
Subtitle: Control and Audit Best Practices
Publisher: The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9780894134975
Subjects: Corporate Finance; Business & Economics; Business/Economics; Auditing - General; Mergers & Acquisitions; Auditing; Auditing, Internal; Consolidation and merger of corporations; Corporate divestiture
First sentence: Empirical evidence assembled by several in the United States, United Kingdom, and other countries points to a high rate of failure of mergers and acquisitions to create value for the shareholders of acquiring firms.