acquisition

The dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) contemplate three uses for the word acquisition, a word that comes from the Latin term acquisition: the action of achieving a certain thing, the thing in itself that has been acquired and the person whose services or intervention are widely valued.

Among the examples that we could use to better understand the term in question are the following sentences: "The owner of the company fought hard to get the acquisition of the land attached to his industry"; "The art expert was congratulated by those present for the acquisition of the Van Gogh painting" or "The new managing director has been praised by the owner of the company for being the best acquisition for the future of the same."

The verb acquire refers to the fact that win or get something through own job or effort. It can also be synonymous with to buy (through money) and get or achieve. In the field of right, acquire is take a thing as one's own property Provided that it does not belong to anyone or that it has been transferred for profit or consideration, or by prescription.

In the business world, an acquisition is understood as the purchase that a legal entity makes of the stock control package of another society, without actually merging their respective patrimonies. It is an economic decision, which implies an investment.

Acquiring a company or business venture can be carried out by a strategic buyer, which intends to consolidate in the market, or by a financial buyer, whose purpose is to acquire a firm to increase its value and then be able to market it at a higher amount.

In this aforementioned business area, it should be emphasized that the expression "mergers and acquisitions of companies" (M&A) is commonly used, which encompasses all these financial operations, both combination and purchase, as well as other companies well of what are the assets.

An action that has the clear objective of achieving greater value to the buying industry. However, it is also carried out for other important issues such as bargains, the motivations of the entrepreneurs and managers themselves or financial synergy.

On the other hand, it is worth mentioning that the linguistics and the psychology they talk about the acquisition of language, an area of ​​study that focuses on how a baby acquires language. There are those who consider that people are born with an innate ability to learn to speak, while other specialists think that this learning it is a cultural phenomenon based on imitation. Noam chomsky Y Jean piaget are some of the scholars who were in charge of analyzing language acquisition.

The latter figure that bequeathed us a series of theories about learning, such as the Cognitive Theory, with which it brings us closer to how, from childhood to adolescence, there is a series of stages depending on the cognitive development of the individual. Specifically, this period is divided into the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations and formal operations stages. And all of them are based on two actions on his part: adaptation and assimilation.