Problem:
Conduct research on contemporary financial management issues (e.g., mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyout, hostile takeover, global outsourcing, corporate governance). Based on your research, select one contemporary issue and an organization that has created a financial management strategy to manage this issue.
For this assignment, I selected Caterpillar Inc for the organization and mergers and acquisitions for the contemporary issue. Please evaluate the impact of the selected contemporary issue (mergers and acquistion) on the selected organization (Caterpillar Inc). Please address the evaluation on the following items:
1) Describe your selected contemporary issue.
2) Describe the financial strategy that your selected organization has created to manage your selected contemporary issue.
3) Assess the impact of corporate governance and ethical issues on the organization's strategy.
4) Evaluate the financial situation of the organization prior to any action taking place.
5) Assess the financial situation after the action was taken.
6) Was the organization successful in managing the selected contemporary issue? Why or why not?
Please provide reference(s)