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Mergers, corporate control and governance and financial distress is examined.

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Mini-Case: Mergers, Corporate Control, and Corporate Governance

Question 1
Remember that goodwill is the difference between the market value of the portion of a company's voting stock purchased by another company. In other words, goodwill only appears when an entity purchases another company.

See Excel for computation.

Question 2
Since we have computed that the total offer price for MSI's 2 million outstanding shares is $50 million, to compute for the number of shares to be ...

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