The motives of reverse acquisitions and rules of their settlement

Abstract

In recent years, there has been increasing talk about reverse acquisitions in capital concentration process- es. These situations are associated with the use of certain economic, tax, and other privileges by compa- nies that are often the initiator of such undertakings. The purpose of the article is, among others, to pre- sent the premises that guide economic entities when making decisions about reverse acquisitions. It is a process in which there is a specific type of acquisition of control of one entity by another. In these cases, there is a reversal of typical relationships between entities involved in the merger, because the entities that have control over the entities that acquire them are taken over. The regulations of the Interna- tional Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) No. 3 "Business Combinations" have a very important role in accounting for these processes. They allow for the proper recognition of these relationships. Based on numerical examples, the authors present the rules for accounting for such a combination. Thus, they confirm the role of accounting, which implements the principle of faithful and reliable presentation of this process. A critical analysis of the literature and legal regulations, as well as deductive reasoning, made it possible to determine the most important motives of this type of connection.

Keywords

• merger
• acquisition
• reverse acquisitions
• legal regulations