Accounting & Finance Assistance

This is the document I used to prepare myself for the SMM233 Mergers & Acquisitions exam, for which I achieved a 73. The document covers all important topics: the basics of deals, acquisition premiums, hostile vs. friendly, types of deals, the process, reasons, due diligence, anti-takeover defences (poison pills, shark repellents, parachutes), takeovers, regulatory issues, alternatives to M&A, deal pricing, types of valuations, synergies, arbitrage & post-deal intergration - amongst others. I...

This is the document I used to prepare myself for the exam for the module SMM249 Financial Reporting at City University London, where I achieved an 84. It covers accrual and cash accounting, inventory transactions, non-current assets, long-term liabilities, shareholders' equity, cash flow statement, inter-corporate investments, group accounting & foreign exchange translation.

These are the lecture notes I used to get a 72 on my exam for the module SMM469 Corporate Finance at City University. The document covers a broad array of topics, including time value of money, accounting & cash flow basics, stock valuation, bonds, risks & return & portfolio theory, cost of capital, factor models & APT, capital allocation, capital budgeting, market efficiency. At the end of the document, you can find an abbreviated summary of all the key items and the key questions / concepts ...

These are the notes I used to study for the exam for Corporate Restructuring, where I achieved a score of 80. It includes notes on all the lectures during the semester, on extra reading as well as on homework cases. Topics covered include: spin-offs, divestitures, value creation framework, margins, capital structure, licensing & franchising, strategic alliances, equity partnerships, joint arrangements, SOTP valuation, split-offs, equity carve-out, leveraged recaps, LBOs, different types of restr...

These are the notes I used to get a 86 on the exam for the module Strategic Cost Management. It covers topics such as ABC costing system, key performance indicators, variable/absorption costing, overhead costs, joint / job / process costing.