Company A released financial statements for year end 2021. The financial statements included a note of a significant event. The note stated, "During the year we acquired all the net assets of company B. This event is reflected in the presented financial statements." Based on this information, what type of business combination occurred on the date these two companies combined?
A)Statuatory Merger
B)Statuatory Consolidation
C)Statuatory Acquisition
D)Hostile Takeover
C) Statuatory Acquisition is the correct answer.
A merger is the condition when two separate entities combine forces to create a new, joint organization. Here No new entity is created.
A statutory acquisition refers to the takeover of one entity by another. Which has happened in this case.
Statutory consolidation is the situation, where both of the merging entities are terminated and replaced by a successor organization. which is not applicable in this case.
A Hostile takeover is the acquisition done through directly approaching shareholdrs of the target company. Which is also not the case.
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