Explanation: In 2012, Hewlett-Packard wrote off 9 billion USD of the 11 billion USD it paid for Autonomy, a software company that it purchased one year earlier. After the purchase was completed, HP realized that the Autonomy accounting statements were not accurate. This resulted in a nearly 80 percent drop in the value of Autonomy once the accounting irregularities were corrected.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Acquisitions and Mergers
Learning Objective: 06-01 The reasons for the failure of many diversification efforts.
Bloom's: Analyze
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
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Step-by-step explanation:

A successful merger is one that sees two different companies come together as one company under one central management.

However, this was not the case with Hewlett-Packard and Autonomy merger in 2011, this resulted in a series of lawsuits seeking for damages.

This case stress the importance of proper auditing of accounts before a merger is done.

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option: d is the correct answer.

d) none of the above.

step-by-step explanation:

clearly from the figure attached to the question we could see that there is no shape given. hence without any shape given in the figure and after rotation we can't obtained a square pyramid.

since, to obtain a image we need a proper figure of the pre-image so that it can be transformed.

hence, the correct answer is:

d) none of the above.

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