Talk:List of largest mergers and acquisitions

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Inflation
I’ve been working on inflation but the inflation templates can only go to 2020 and I’ve been using 2022 inflation rates so as a result the inflation templates are being removed. If they are updated to current year that would be great. I Am Hunted (talk) 23:38, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Merger valuations
In accounting terms there is no such thing as a merger, because from a purchase price accounting perspective there is always an acquiring entity and an acquired entity. If users want to remove or downgrade deals on the list selectively based on their opinion of whether a merger was "real" or "true" or not, then theoretically the entire list should be reviewed and revised downwards, citing only the valuation of the acquiring entity (and not the combined value of the merged companies at the date of signing). Alternatively the list could be reviewed and all amounts revised to cite only the value of the business being acquired (and not including the acquirer's value). Such a methodology would be consistent for both mergers and acquisitions and could still be adjusted for inflation. Ideally for this list to have utility such a method would not be applied selectively. Capmarkets1000 (talk) 16:04, 7 November 2023 (UTC)