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How Accounting Comparability Between Bidders and Targets Affects Deal Outcomes
How comparable are the financial statements of M&A bidders and acquirers in the same industry? And does financial statement comparability affect the outcome of a deal? In a recent paper, available here, we investigate these questions, using a sample …