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The private equity business model: On terra firma or shifting sands?

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  • Tord Andersson
  • Colin Haslam

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This paper reveals how the financial crisis undermined the performance of Private Equity Partnerships (PEPs). The private equity business model depends upon leveraged finance coupled with corporate transformation from market arbitrage that, in turn, delivers inflated market valuations and exit multiples. Private equity partnerships conjoin corporate productive and financial activity with speculative capital market demands where liquidity, risk appetite and market value appreciation matter. It is a business model where productive transformation of acquired firm's is often disappointing because leverage inflates balance sheet capitalization ahead of cash earnings capacity. It is also a volatile business model because capital market valuations and fair value reporting amplify holding gains and losses for limited equity partners. It is a business model constructed on shifting sands not terra firma.

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  • Tord Andersson & Colin Haslam, 2012. "The private equity business model: On terra firma or shifting sands?," Accounting Forum, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(1), pages 27-37, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:accfor:v:36:y:2012:i:1:p:27-37
    DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2012.01.002
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    1. Andersson, Tord & Lee, Edward & Theodosopoulos, Grigorios & Yin, Ya Ping & Haslam, Colin, 2014. "Accounting for the financialized UK and US national business model," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 25(1), pages 78-91.
    2. Beisland, Leif Atle, 2014. "Equity valuation in practice: The influence of net financial expenses," Accounting forum, Elsevier, vol. 38(2), pages 122-131.
    3. Haslam, Colin & Tsitsianis, Nick & Theodosopoulos, Grigorios & Lee, Edward, 2018. "Accounting for voluntary hospices in England: A business model perspective," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 27-40.

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