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This article aims to evaluate the current accounting criteria used to assess business combinations and suggest necessary improvements.

Accounting for Business Combinations.

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This article critiques accounting criteria for business combinations, highlighting the need for improved guidelines and practices.

This article aims to evaluate the current accounting criteria used to assess business combinations and suggest necessary improvements.
Analyzes existing accounting criteria for business combinations
Critiques the effectiveness of the relative-size criterion
Compares pooling and purchase concepts in asset management
Current criteria inadequately reflect economic realities and intentions
Pooling concept leads to misleading interpretations in accounting
Purchase concept aligns better with asset realization and objectivity

Lawrence Christman Phillips (1965) studied this question.

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