The Determinants of Cross-Border Acquisitions: Evidence from Romania

The cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are powerful strategies, used by companies, usually with financial resources, to search and acquire target companies that fulfill specific needs of the acquirers. The characteristics of the target companies and of the environment where they activa...

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Language:English
Published: Chamber of Financial Auditors of Romania 2019-05-01
Series:Audit Financiar
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Online Access: http://revista.cafr.ro/temp/Article_9614.pdf
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description The cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are powerful strategies, used by companies, usually with financial resources, to search and acquire target companies that fulfill specific needs of the acquirers. The characteristics of the target companies and of the environment where they activate compose the determinants that lead to either a domestic or a cross-border M&A, suitable to generate synergy success and efficiency gains for the shareholders of the involved companies. Considering a sample of 60 acquisitions which involved at least one Romanian company in the position of the acquirer or the target, the authors considered the financial information of both companies as predictors for the stake that the acquiring company will buy in the target. Also, they considered the level of relatedness between the activities of the companies and the accounting practice of the target as factors with significant influence in this choice. The research results will show that the deal value paid, the productivity and the relatedness of the two companies significantly influence the stake purchased in the target company, but the accounting practice lead to a significant increase in the capacity of the proposed model to predict the variance of the final stake.
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spelling doaj.art-c4a8b289716349c0b733e7d566857f3e2022-12-22T03:16:11ZengChamber of Financial Auditors of RomaniaAudit Financiar1844-88012019-05-011715432733810.20869/AUDITF/2019/154/3279614The Determinants of Cross-Border Acquisitions: Evidence from RomaniaThe cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are powerful strategies, used by companies, usually with financial resources, to search and acquire target companies that fulfill specific needs of the acquirers. The characteristics of the target companies and of the environment where they activate compose the determinants that lead to either a domestic or a cross-border M&A, suitable to generate synergy success and efficiency gains for the shareholders of the involved companies. Considering a sample of 60 acquisitions which involved at least one Romanian company in the position of the acquirer or the target, the authors considered the financial information of both companies as predictors for the stake that the acquiring company will buy in the target. Also, they considered the level of relatedness between the activities of the companies and the accounting practice of the target as factors with significant influence in this choice. The research results will show that the deal value paid, the productivity and the relatedness of the two companies significantly influence the stake purchased in the target company, but the accounting practice lead to a significant increase in the capacity of the proposed model to predict the variance of the final stake. http://revista.cafr.ro/temp/Article_9614.pdf cross-border acquisitionsdeal valuerelatednesstarget companyproductivity
spellingShingle The Determinants of Cross-Border Acquisitions: Evidence from Romania
Audit Financiar
cross-border acquisitions
deal value
relatedness
target company
productivity
title The Determinants of Cross-Border Acquisitions: Evidence from Romania
title_full The Determinants of Cross-Border Acquisitions: Evidence from Romania
title_fullStr The Determinants of Cross-Border Acquisitions: Evidence from Romania
title_full_unstemmed The Determinants of Cross-Border Acquisitions: Evidence from Romania
title_short The Determinants of Cross-Border Acquisitions: Evidence from Romania
title_sort determinants of cross border acquisitions evidence from romania
topic cross-border acquisitions
deal value
relatedness
target company
productivity
url http://revista.cafr.ro/temp/Article_9614.pdf