In Chapter $1$ of Advance Accounting we talked about some reasons why businesses might want to combine $-$ cost savings, lower risk than starting a business from scratch, etc. Provide some additional reasons why one company might want to combine with another. Reference a business combination that has occurred in the last few years, and describe what you see as the main motivations for this combination. Why was the combination successful?

OR

alternatively $-$ give an example of a proposed business combination in recent years that fell through $-$ meaning that two companies had discussed the possibility of combining, but in the end, did not. What do you see as the reason$/$s why the combination did not happen? You could also discuss a combination that happened but was not successful from a business perspective $-$ why was the combined company not successful post combination?

If you can give an example of a combination that did or did not happen in recent year AND providing some logical reason$/$s why the companies did or did not combine and why the combination was successful or unsuccessful.

$*$ TWO well written paragraphs, six sentence each $*$