Scientific Journal of KubSAU

The objective of this article was to develop the concept of decision-making support in business assessment in mergers and acquisitions. The concept is developed with regard to system and process approaches, international and federal estimation standards, including projects of standards under development. The article presents the following research findings obtained personally by the author: mergers and acquisitions are classified; the validity of investment value for business assessment in mergers and acquisitions is shown; conditions of appraiser’s independence are given. The summary of findings allowed elaborating provisions of the concept of decision-making support in business assessment in mergers and acquisitions. The scientific novelty of the concept in question is provided with the use of investment value as a basic value of the target company and consideration for each party based on the model of their preferences. The practical relevance of this work is that the concept in question extends the methodological modeling basis for preferences of parties to a transaction, for the decision-making support in business assessment in mergers and acquisitions and study of effectiveness of algorithms proposed using business simulation games