ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
IF4420 | Mergers and Acquisitions | Spring Fall |
3 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi BAHAR KÖSEOĞLU |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi UMUT UĞURLU Prof. Dr. İPEK ALTINBAŞAK FARİNA |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | This course aims at providing students an analytical and theoretical framework to understand the M&A process and will also use cases and real-world applications to develop skills necessary to evaluate and implement a transaction. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; The student who successfully completes this course; I. will have a thorough knowledge of the value drivers of a company II.Will be able to assess a company within the context of its competitive advantage and the industry it operates in III.Will learn the process of M&A of a company IV.Will know the difference of the M&A process from the buyer or seller perspectives V.Be able to do basic company valuation VI Have an insight to the participants of the M&A process, negotiation process and the legal documents involved in M&A process. |
Valuation, valuation techniques, M&A process, Negotiations |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Why companies are bought or sold? | |
2) | Why the industry in which the company operates is important? Hence industry analysis | |
3) | What make the medium and small companies differ from the big ones | |
5) | Valuation II | |
5) | What are the value drivers of a company? | |
6) | Valuation II | |
7) | Most used valuation techniques | |
8) | Other valuation techniques | |
9) | M&A process | |
10) | M&A milestones | |
11) | Negotiation I | |
12) | Negotiation II | |
13) | Due diligence | |
14) | Wrap up |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Mergers & Acquisitions ,A. Sherman and Milledge Hart (2006), Investment Valuation, Aswath Damodaran (2002) |
References: | Yok / None |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Homework Assignments | 1 | % 20 |
Midterms | 1 | % 35 |
Final | 1 | % 45 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 55 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 45 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 4 | 56 |
Homework Assignments | 1 | 35 | 35 |
Midterms | 1 | 40 | 40 |
Final | 1 | 45 | 45 |
Total Workload | 218 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 3 |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 2 |
9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |