Posted: February 5th, 2015

Multinational Acquisition (Disney and Pixar)

Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements

Assignment: Multinational Acquisition

Use the Internet to research a publically traded multinational corporation that has recently acquired

another multinational corporation.

Write a six to eight (6-10) pages paper (excluding appendices) in which you:

1. Briefly describe the acquisition you have selected.
2. Analyze the accounting requirements for the business combination and discuss challenges in

preparing the financial statements for the consolidation of subsidiaries on the date of acquisition.

3. Evaluate the amount of goodwill or other intangible assets derived from the transaction and explain

whether or not you support that this value was created as a result of the business combination.

4. Analyze special issues related to business consolidations including changes in ownership, insolvency,

liquidation, and reorganization resulting from the acquisition you selected.

5. For the company your selected, identify the key areas of difference for the acquisition reporting if

IFRS was used instead of US GAAP and if the difference would be material to the profitability of the

combined entity.

6. Include three (3) external sources (references) to support your position.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all

sides; citations and references must follow Harvard format.

• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s

name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in

the required assignment page length.

Assessment procedures:

• This assignment is a group project. Each group consists of max. 5 students, one of them will be

the group leader.

• Students will be evaluated based on different criteria: quality of work and the team work.
• All group members are expected to fully participate. The role of each group member should be

clear to the instructor. Group members who do not participate will receive a score of zero.

• The group leader will be asked to report to the instructor the activities of the group the

organization of the work, the tasks of each member, and the communication between the

members. The group discussions, meetings and activities should be also available on the

Discussion board of the group on the blackboard.

• The instructor will schedule meetings with the group leader (and with group members if

necessary) to be updated about the activities of the group and the progress of the work.• The due date of the project is December 27th (midnight). A well-structured report answering all

questions must be submitted to the instructor (hard copy and soft copy through Blackboard).

• Any work submitted after the due date will receive a penalty of 10% per day late but the total

penalty will not exceed 50% of the points available for the assignment.

• No work will be accepted when the final examination period starts (January, 4th) and the

resulting score will be zero.

• The assignment should be handed over the safe assignment link to check for any plagiarism.

Assignments with high level of similarities will be penalized depending on the percentage of

similarity with other work.

• Total marks allocated for this assignment is 10 marks.