Introduction
Why has the pace of consolidations increased so dramatically in the last few years? Are mergers today different in character from those of a decade ago? It is believed that the current merger wave is significantly different from the "junk bond"-fueled mergers of the 1980's. (Pitofsky, R. 1998) Some of those mergers involved the acquisition of unrelated businesses that were targeted for their break-up value or designed to generate cash for corporate raiders. Today's mergers are more likely to be motivated by fundamental developments in the rapidly changing economy and reflect more traditional corporate goals of efficiency and competitiveness.
Corporate Finance is the specific area of finance dealing with the financial decisions corporations make and the tools and analysis used to make those decisions. The decision discipline as a whole may be divided between long-term capital investment decisions, and
short- term working capital management. The two are related......

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