M&A for Management Consultants & Business Analysts

Description
Consulting firms are hired very often to help with Mergers & Acquisitions. Those projects are difficult as you have to deliver results fast and you have to deal with many stakeholders. You not only have to help select potential targets, model businesses in Excel but also you will have to estimate the potential benefits of M&A, the value of the firm, and forecast the development of the acquired firms. In this course, I will teach how to perform fast and efficiently different types of analyses during M&A projects.
In the course you will learn the following things:
1. What kind of analyses you may have to do during the M&A project
2. How to Select Potential Targets for M&A using Excel
3. How to create a financial model in Excel for M&A purposes
4. How to estimate the value of M&A target
5. How to estimate potential synergies coming from the M&A process
6. How to conduct commercial due diligence
7. What kind of market research tools you can use during due diligence
I will also show you how Amazon, Disney are using M&A to grow their business. We will have a look at useful methods to conduct research during commercial due diligence. I will briefly go through the main methods useful for market estimation, competition analysis, trend analysis, and consumer analysis.