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This article covers business divestments, for the social and political uses of divestment, see Disinvestment. Disinvestment, sometimes referred to as divestment, refers to the use of a concerted economic Boycott, with specific emphasis on liquidating stock to pressure a government

In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset for either financial goals or ethical objectives. The field of finance refers to the concepts of Time, Money and Risk and how they are interrelated Economics is the social science that studies the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services. In Business and Accounting, assets are everything owned by a person or company (all tangible and intangible property that can be converted into cash. A divestment is the opposite of an investment. Investment or investing is a term with several closely-related meanings in Business management, Finance and Economics, related to saving

Divestment for financial goals

Often the term is used as a means to grow financially in which a company sells off a business unit in order to focus their resources on a market it judges to be more profitable, or promising. Sometimes, such an action can be a spin-off. A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new Organization or Entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a Television series based on a pre-existing (For the United States); Divestment of certain parts of a company can occur when required by the Federal Trade Commission before a merger with another firm is approved. The Federal Trade Commission ( FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act A company can divest assets to wholly owned subsidiaries.

The largest, and likely most-famous, corporate divestiture in history was the 1984 U.S. Department of Justice-mandated breakup of the Bell System into AT&T and the seven Baby Bells. For animal rights group see Justice Department (JD The United States Department of Justice ( DOJ) is a Cabinet department The break up of AT&T was initiated in 1974 by the US Department of Justice antitrust suit against the telephone Monopoly. The Bell System which was named for Alexander Graham Bell, the technologist popularly credited with the invention of the Telephone, was a Trademark and Before proposing a merge request please see Talk and see if the merger you propose has recently been made and

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Consolidation or amalgamation is the act of merging many things into one Corporate finance is an area of Finance dealing with the financial decisions Corporations make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions Corporate social responsibility (CSR also called corporate responsibility corporate citizenship responsible business and corporate social opportunity is a concept whereby Organizations Demerger is the converse of a merger or acquisition. It describes a form of restructure in which Shareholders or unitholders in the parent company gain direct Disinvestment, sometimes referred to as divestment, refers to the use of a concerted economic Boycott, with specific emphasis on liquidating stock to pressure a government Enterprise value (EV Total enterprise value (TEV or Firm value (FV is an economic measure reflecting the market value of the whole business Financial economics is the branch of Economics concerned with "the allocation and deployment of economic resources both spatially and across time in an uncertain environment" A tax resister resists or refuses payment of a Tax because of opposition to the institution collecting the tax or to some of that institution’s policies

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divestment

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  1. The reduction of some kind of asset, for either financial or social goals.
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