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A demerger is a form of corporate restructuring in which the entity's business operations are segregated into one or more components. [1] It is the converse of a merger or acquisition . A demerger can take place through a spin-off by distributed or transferring the shares in a subsidiary holding the business to company shareholders carrying out ...
AOL was a Time Warner spin-off in 2009; this effectively was a demerger, as AOL had previously merged into Time Warner. Ocean Rig was spun off from DryShips in September 2011. News Corporation's publishing operations (and its broadcasting operations in Australia) were spun off as News Corp in 2013.
A capital gains tax (CGT) was introduced in Australia on 20 September 1985, one of a number of tax reforms by the Hawke/Keating government. The CGT applied only to assets acquired on or after that date, with gains (or losses) on assets owned on that date, called pre-CGT assets, not being subject to the CGT.
The following is a glossary which defines terms used in mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers of companies, whether private or public.. Acquisition When one company is taking over controlling interest in another company.
A financial calculator or business calculator is an electronic calculator that performs financial functions commonly needed in business and commerce communities [1] (simple interest, compound interest, cash flow, amortization, conversion, cost/sell/margin, depreciation etc.).
[1] Inflation adjusted (in billions USD) 1 1901 Carnegie Steel Company [9] Federal Steel Company National Steel Company: 0.492 18 2 1907 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company [10] Boston and Maine Corporation: 0.310 10.1 3 1909 Interborough Rapid Transit Company [11] [12] Metropolitan Street Railway: 0.222 7.5
The main effect of stock splits is an increase in the liquidity of a stock: [3] there are more buyers and sellers for 10 shares at $10 than 1 share at $100. Some companies avoid a stock split to obtain the opposite strategy: by refusing to split the stock and keeping the price high, they reduce trading volume.
In Canada, the 1990s saw the forced amalgamation of several municipal entities in the provinces of Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec into larger new municipalities. Even in cases where a central city merged with its suburbs, the amalgamated city was legally a new municipality, even if it was given the central city's name and was in effect a defacto annexation by the central city.