Growing your business through acquisition

Overview

There are various options to consider when growing your business. This course focuses on expansion through buying another business or finding a partner business, and merging it with your existing business. Whether it's a merger or a takeover, expanding a business in this way requires a leap into the unknown; no matter how much preliminary investigation and negotiation you do, the full truth never emerges until the businesses are actually joined.

John Taylor’s course provides you with the tools and techniques you need to be able to understand how to grow your business through mergers and acquisitions and the pitfalls and issues to be aware of. This course allows you to work through activities, share your learning with peers, and gain the knowledge and skills that will enable you to successfully manage a merger or acquisition.

This course will enable you to:

• understand the challenges in business expansion
• understand how to finance an acquisition
• identify the most appropriate ways to merge businesses
• recognise potential problems and issues
• understand how best to deal with customers and suppliers
• identify and apply the right accounting and finance processes.

Key information

• learn at your own pace
• help meet your annual CPD requirements
• develop your own learning needs
• iPad/Android compatible
• exclusive member benefit – 10% discount.

Helping accountants grow 

Disclaimer: This course is available for ACCA members, you may need your ACCA membership number to complete your booking. This course and outline is provided by a third-party course provider. All course bookings are subject to the terms and conditions set by the course provider. Please see individual supplier pages for full terms and conditions. ACCA takes no liability for bookings made with third-party suppliers.