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| 1. Accounting Problems Encountered in M&As |
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2 The Present Conditions of M&A Accounting in Japan: Stepping toward International Harmonization |
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3 The Revision of the Accounting Standards for Business Combinations: Toward Convergence |
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3.1 M&A accounting standards (established in 2003, enforced in 2006) |
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3.2 Revised M&A accounting standards (established in 2009, will be enforced in 2010) |
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4 Reexamination of Governance Based on Stockholder Dominance |
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| 2. A Study of Goodwill and Intangible Fixed Asset on Business Combination: Pharmaceutical Companies in Japan |
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1 Prior Studies Concerning the Reasonability of the Adoption of the Free Cash Flow Method |
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2 Corporate Evaluation of Business Combination Accounting and PPA |
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3 Revaluation in the Case of Share Transfer of Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited |
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4 Verification of Reasonability of Accounting for Goodwill |
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5 Details of R&D Expenditures and Revaluation of Intangible Assets |
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5.1 M&A and motive for innovation |
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5.2 Examination of reasonability of appropriation |
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6 hi-Process R&D Expenses |
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6.1 What are in-process R&D expenses? |
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6.2 M&A of alai Co. Ltd. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd |
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6.3 Direction of in-process R&D expenses |
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| 3. The Method of Payment in Takeovers and Earnings Management |
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2 Earnings Management and Takeovers |
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3 Research Design and Sample Selection |
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3.1 Measurement of earnings management |
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4.1 Descriptive statistics |
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4.2 Abnormal accruals for acquiring firms around the agreed-on exchange ratio of the merger |
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4.3 Abnormal accruals for target firms around the agreed-on exchange ratio of the merger |
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| 4. Income Smoothing and the Just-in-Time System in the Japanese Automobile Industry |
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1 Potential Inventory Manipulation |
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2 Discretionary Models and Hypotheses |
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2.1 Discretionary accruals: the modified DJ model |
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2.2 Discretionary day's inventory |
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3 Assumptions and Hypotheses |
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3.2 Hypothesis 1: discretionary accruals (DA/S) |
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3.3 Hypothesis 2: discretionary day's inventory change (DΔINV/S or DΔINV/C) |
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4 Data and Day's Inventory |
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4.2 Day's inventory: descriptive statistics |
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5.1 Comparison of the positive ΔCFO Group with the negative ΔCFO Group in the discretionary accruals |
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5.2 Comparison of the positive ΔCFO Group with the negative ΔCFO Group in the discretionary day's inventory change based on sales |
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5.3 Comparison of a positive ΔCFO Group with a negative ΔCFO Group in the discretionary day's inventory change based on cost of goods sold |
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| 5. M&A and Its Incentive System for the Inter-Firm Organization |
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2 What is the Network Organization? |
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2.1 Boundaries of the inter-firm network as an open adaptive system |
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3 The Concept that Makes the Network Organization Unique |
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4 Three Roles of the Core Company in a Network Organization |
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5 Strategic Decision No. 1: Selection of Network Participating Companies Through M&A |
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6 Strategic Decision No. 2: Design of Forms of the Inter-Firm Combination |
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6.1.1 Acquisition price as incentive to M&A |
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6.1.2 Control right: origin of synergy effect |
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6.2 Placing a company under control as an affiliate |
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6.4 Business tie-up (operational alliance) |
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7 Design of an Incentive System for the Companies Participating in a Network |
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8 Determination of the Resource Allocation as Task Control: A Case of the Toyota Motor Group |
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| 6. The Impact of Market Inefficiency on TOB in Japan |
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2 Inefficiency of the Stock Market |
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2.1 Causes of inefficiency of the market |
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2.2 Market inefficiency and knowledge in behavioral finance |
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2.2.1 Efficient market and behavioral finance |
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2.2.2 Knowledge in behavioral finance |
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2.3 Cross-shareholding among Japanese firms |
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3.1 Determination of TOB price and its effect |
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3.2 Strategies for successful TOB |
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| 7. A Survey of Public-to-Private Buy-out Transactions in Japan |
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2 Trends of Public-to-Private Buy-outs in Japan |
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3 Classification of Public-to-Private Transactions in Japan |
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3.2 Business succession type |
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3.4 Strategic going private type |
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3.5 Protection against hostile takeover type |
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4 Public-to-Private Deals and Financial Package |
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| 8. Do M&As in Japan Increase Shareholder Value? |
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2 The State of the M&A Market in Japan |
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3 Do M&As in Japan Increase Shareholder Value? |
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4 Factors Behind the Value Creation by M&A Activities |
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5 Long-Term Shareholders' Return after M&As in Japan |
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| Index |
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