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In business, consolidation or amalgamation is the merger and acquisition of many smaller companies into a few much larger ones. In the context of financial accounting , consolidation refers to the aggregation of financial statements of a group company as consolidated financial statements .
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of companies, business organizations, or their operating units are transferred to or consolidated with another company or business organization.
A merger, consolidation or amalgamation, in a political or administrative sense, is the combination of two or more political or administrative entities, such as municipalities (in other words cities, towns, etc.), counties, districts, etc., into a single entity. This term is used when the process occurs within a sovereign entity.
The early explorer G. Windsor Earl stated that the Jaako appeared to be formed from the "amalgamation" of two distinct tribes. [4] Earl claimed on the one hand that they were a disagreeable people, who blindly followed their chieftains, and engaged in theft, but on the other hand that they treated with generous hospitality Earl's party when they visited the Jaako on Croker Island.
Some religious movements have embraced overt syncretism, such as the case of melding ShintÅ beliefs into Buddhism or the amalgamation of Germanic and Celtic pagan views into Christianity during its spread into Gaul, Ireland, Britain, Germany and Scandinavia.
Amalgamation (race), a now largely archaic term for the merger of people of different ethnicities and "races" Amalgamation, another name for a trade union, chiefly used in the UK; Amalgamation, in C (programming language) (C) and C++ programming, merging all the source codes of a library into a single header file
In the business world, amalgamated refers to an organization that has undergone consolidation (also known as amalgamation). Amalgamated organizations may use "amalgamated" in their name to signify that it is the amalgamation of its component companies or trade unions .
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