#mergers-and-acquisitions
Accounting guidance for business acquisitions, goodwill, purchase price allocation, and deal structuring
Отчетът на FedEx за Q4 и цялата фискална 2026 г.: приходи от 25,0 млрд. долара за тримесечието / 94,7 млрд. долара годишно, нетна печалба от 4,43 млрд. долара, оперативен марж от 5,8% и над 1 млрд. долара икономии от трансформацията — като отделянето на Freight от 1 юни 2026 г. е моделирано в публичен регистър на Beancount, обхващащ фискалните години 2021–2026.
Около 6 милиона малки и средни предприятия в САЩ ще сменят собственика си до 2035 г., тъй като собствениците от поколението на бейби бумърите се пенсионират, а McKinsey изчислява, че повече от 1 милион от тях са продаваеми, представлявайки до 5 трилиона долара стойност на предприятията — но само около 35% от собствениците имат план за приемственост. Това ръководство обхваща тригодишния времеви график за продавача, как се постигат множители на оценка от 2x до 4x SDE, структурите на SBA 7(a) и финансиране от продавача за купувачите, надлежната проверка и счетоводните навици, които отличават продаваем бизнес от такъв, който тихо затваря врати.
Бизнесите от типа "main street" се оценяват като дискреционни доходи на продавача, умножени по множител — средно за всички сектори 2,57 пъти, вариращо от 1,39 пъти за магазини тип "всичко за 1 лев" до 4,99 пъти за автомивки. Ето как се изчислява SDE, кои добавки оцеляват при проверката от купувача, защо стълбицата на множителите се променя и как правилата за кредитиране по SBA през 2026 г. променят структурата на сделките.
Gusto's acquisition of compliance-automation platform Mosey signals that multi-state registration is becoming a payroll-provider feature. Small businesses under 50 employees spend about $14,700 per employee per year on regulatory compliance, and a first hire in a new state triggers foreign qualification, withholding and SUTA accounts, workers' comp, and new-hire reporting — each with its own agency, deadline, and penalties.
Tax liability insurance transfers one specific, identified tax risk — an invalid S-corp election, a Section 382 NOL limit, QSBS eligibility — to an insurer instead of a price cut, escrow, or seller indemnity. Premiums run 2–5% of the insured limit, underwriting takes two to four weeks, and most carriers want exposure above roughly $1 million. Here's how it works and when to raise it before a closing deadline.
Nuvei is acquiring Payoneer for $7.40 per share — about $2.75 billion — with closing expected by mid-2027. Here's what the deal means for freelancers and small exporters in 190+ countries who rely on Payoneer payouts, and four bookkeeping steps to track fees, FX spreads, and platform risk through the transition.
FASB's ASU 2025-07 adds an ASC 815 scope exception for non-exchange-traded contracts whose payoff depends on a party's own operations — ESG-linked interest rate step-downs, M&A earnouts, regulatory and product milestones, change-of-control triggers — and routes warrants received from customers through Topic 606 instead of derivative accounting. Effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026, with early adoption permitted.
FASB's ASU 2025-08 extends the CECL gross-up approach to purchased seasoned loans, eliminating the Day 1 provision expense on healthy acquired loan portfolios. Effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026, with early adoption permitted — here's who qualifies, how the mechanics work, and how to prepare before your next acquisition.
Nuvei is acquiring Payoneer for $7.40 per share in a $2.75 billion all-cash deal announced June 15, 2026, expected to close mid-2027. Here's what the merger means for freelancers and marketplace sellers who rely on Payoneer — and why fees, FX spreads, and platform integrations are worth watching over the next year.
A Phoenix operator that bought 93 fast-food restaurants in 2023 filed Chapter 11 in July 2026, disputing a $7.04 million seller note over allegedly undisclosed liabilities. The case shows why setoff clauses, escrow holdbacks, facilities diligence, and seller solvency checks matter in any seller-financed business purchase.
Prosperity Partners' July 2026 sale to Lightyear Capital is the third major accounting firm to flip private equity owners in 18 months, and over 1,000 firms worldwide have taken PE money. Here is what an ownership change means for outsourced bookkeeping clients — staff turnover, pricing resets, data migration — and how a portable plain-text ledger keeps your books out of the churn.
Stripe and Advent International offered $60.50 a share — about $53.4 billion — to buy PayPal, a deal that would merge processors handling $3.7 trillion in annual volume. History shows consolidation like Global Payments-Worldpay raised merchant costs through padded fees, so here are four concrete steps to protect your processing costs now.
