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Effectively Optimizing Costs in Mergers and Acquisitions

Executive leaders must optimize costs throughout the phases of a deal to ensure that M&A transactions achieve their goals.

Analysts: Chris Ganly, Cesar Lozada

As organizations seek to grow through acquisition, they will accumulate an increasingly diverse or duplicate set of capabilities and systems, the integration costs of which can quickly become suboptimal without attention to rationalization. 

To facilitate the integration of finances across the acquired and acquiring companies, executive leaders should track M&A-related costs through a dedicated cost center structure. Use this research to optimize costs throughout the phases of a deal to ensure that M&A transactions achieve their goals.

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