7 Lessons From WaMu's Playbook - Mergers and acquisitions are, once again, shaking up all kinds of industries. The big question: How do you do them right? Here's the playbook according to Washington Mutual, one of the best in the business.
Publisher: Fast Company     Author: George Anders   

Horizontal Merger Guidelines - The Guidelines describe the analytical process that the Agency will employ in determining whether to challenge a horizontal merger.
Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice     Author: U.S. Department of Justice   

A Lesson Before Buying - University executive-education programs tackle one of the business world's toughest jobs: teaching M&A.
Publisher: CFO.com     Author: Roy Harris   

Accounting for Customer Relationships in Mergers and Acquisitions - The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s recent rules on accounting for mergers creates a disconnect between how merger partners actually are evaluated and how FASB wants merging companies to account for the combination.
Publisher: Strategic Finance     Author: Alfred M. King   

An Appetite for Growth - What do you get when you take one bank and add 23 other banks in just two years? A heck of a lot of work for the IT department.
Publisher: CIO Magazine     Author: Lauren Gibbons Paul   

Another Play for M&As - A new wave of mergers and acquisitions will soon alter the landscape of ebusiness, invigorating ecommerce industries and allowing a stronger set of companies to emerge as the new leaders.
Publisher: Business 2.0     Author: Walid Mougayar   

Applying New M&A Accounting Rules - Under the FASB’s new mergers and acquisitions rule, the pooling-of-interests method is out; the purchase method is in.
Publisher: Strategic Finance     Author: Alfred M. King   

Are Mergers Paying Off? - Some are, but as the FASB prepares to end pooling, evidence is mounting that many big-name mergers have been far from successful.
Publisher: Financial Executive Online Edition     Author: Jeffrey Marshall   

Building a Unified Reporting System - In a merger, developing a common set of metrics and a unified reporting system is a major feat. Sometimes the best solution is for each entity to use its own measures and systems.
Publisher: Businessfinancemag.com     Author: Tad Leahy   

Building an Empire: Why Do Managers Undertake Acquisitions? - Even in the era of downsizing, many executives want to expand and diversify business operations -- sometimes at the expense of shareholder wealth. But why?
Publisher: Capital Ideas     Author: Judith Chevalier