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Please provide sufficient answers. Thanks a lot. I will high rate(like) the answers. Part1. Facebook Case & Goodwill Impairments You are working as an intern

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Please provide sufficient answers. Thanks a lot. I will high rate(like) the answers.

Part1. Facebook Case & Goodwill Impairments You are working as an intern at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Your boss, Warren Buffett, is planning to make investment on Facebook stocks. Warren Buffet wants to evaluate some potential risk of Facebook investments and asked you to write a report (so report on potential risk, i.e., downside of FB investment) because Warren Buffet saw your recent education at PKU GSM from your resume. Warrant Buffet promised you to give 1% of his entire net wealth to you, if you write a really good report. Now, you have incentive to write a really good report. While reading Facebook financial statements, you discovered that Facebook acquired WhatsApp on February 19, 2014. Appendix A. includes information on Facebook-WhatsApp deal. 1. You want to evaluate Facebook's WhatsApp acquisition and see whether there are any risks coming from past M&A deals. 1) Please, write your evaluation of Facebook's WhatsApp acquisition at the deal inception (i.e., when the deal is made). In other words, if you are evaluating the deal around February 19th 2014, how will you evaluate WhatsApp dea, i.e., do you think the Facebook's decision on acquiring WhatsApp is good or bad? If so, what is your explanation

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