Build practical expertise in mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, valuation, M&A accounting, and investment banking financial modeling.

Learn how to analyze real-world corporate transactions, evaluate deal risks, and prepare professional M&A financial outputs.

This Specialization is designed for learners who want to develop job-ready skills in merger accounting, acquisition strategy, due diligence, valuation, restructuring analysis, and M&A modeling. Across three focused courses, learners will explore how companies evaluate acquisition opportunities, structure transactions, account for mergers, assess synergies, and measure shareholder impact.

You will learn how to calculate purchase consideration, prepare realization accounts, record merger-related journal entries, reconstruct post-merger balance sheets, evaluate goodwill, analyze dilution, and apply valuation techniques such as DCF, relative valuation, growth models, and asset-based methods. The Specialization also covers strategic M&A decision-making, failed mergers, defensive strategies, due diligence workflows, and case-based transaction analysis.

By completing this Specialization, learners will be able to confidently analyze M&A transactions, build financial models, evaluate acquisition risks and opportunities, and support strategic decisions in investment banking, corporate finance, accounting, consulting, and transaction advisory roles.

Applied Learning Project

Learners will complete practical M&A projects involving deal analysis, acquisition accounting, valuation, due diligence review, and financial modeling. They will apply these skills to evaluate transaction risks, calculate purchase consideration, assess synergies, prepare post-merger financial statements, and support investment banking-style deal decisions.