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Model the earnings consequences of an acquisition

New shares, interest and deal costs can make an attractive purchase dilute earnings.

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Proposed inputs

Name
Fictional company summaries
Owner
Deal owner
Minimum scope
Two companies’ income and shares
Quality check
Match periods; label adjustments.
Name
Illustrative deal sheet
Owner
Analyst
Minimum scope
Funding mix, fees and synergies
Quality check
Label estimates; preserve unknowns.

Access and setup — proposed or unknown

Proposed minimum: Use a separate working copy and identify the person who can resolve uncertain inputs.
Agree the allowed artifact and review boundary before implementation.
Compatibility unknowns: Unknown: installed runtime, required tools, external service access and present-day compatibility.
External actions requiring approval: Approve assumptions, data sharing and professional review; negotiation, investment and transaction decisions remain with people.

Detailed steps and output format

At a glance

Suggested result: A combined-earnings bridge, consideration scenarios and a reviewable assumptions summary.Suggested; untested.
Tool: Hermes AgentSource-named; check current access.
Suggested inputs: Fictional company summaries; Illustrative deal sheetProposed; access notes below.
Human review: Approve assumptions, data sharing and professional review; negotiation, investment and transaction decisions remain with people.Suggested boundaries; source approvals below.
Setup notes: Use a separate working copy and identify the person who can resolve uncertain inputs. Agree the allowed artifact and review boundary before implementation.Guide notes; proposed setup untested.
Cost: Workflow cost not established. Check current tool pricing, setup and human review costs before trying it.No measured cost or time added.
Content depth: Source-linked example · suggestions untestedDepth does not establish successful execution.

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Source-backed example. Practical decision guidance is proposed and untested; this is not a full implementation guide.

The problem

New shares, interest and deal costs can make an attractive purchase dilute earnings.

Suggested task · untested

Prepare a consequences model that separates supplied facts from uncertain deal assumptions.

What you could produce

A combined-earnings bridge, consideration scenarios and a reviewable assumptions summary.

Where these suggestions come from

Core problem: Our suggestion; no result reported by the source
Agent job: Our suggestion; no result reported by the source
Expected output: Our suggestion; no result reported by the source
Relevant job roles: Our suggestion; no result reported by the source
Benefit type: Our suggestion; no result reported by the source

Suggestions and their limits

Describes the proposed purpose and review output; measured benefit and successful delivery are not established.

Editorial synthesis based on the linked source. This framing does not add evidence of successful delivery or results.

Before you try it · suggestions untested

Original decision guidance and first check are proposals. The source supports the attributed task; this guidance has not been executed.

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Why use this

Purchase price alone misses financing consequences.
Separate assumptions make the earnings comparison reviewable.

Why an agent / simpler alternative

Useful judgment: Reconcile reporting bases and explain assumption effects.
Simpler alternative: A qualified analyst’s established merger template is sufficient when all inputs are already standardized.
Unsuitable when: The exercise would decide an acquisition, set binding terms or substitute for accounting, legal or investment review.

Expected deliverable and review checks

Proposed artifact: A combined-earnings bridge, consideration scenarios and a reviewable assumptions summary.
Critical checks: Reconcile standalone to combined earnings.
New shares follow the stated consideration mix.
Do not present projected synergies as realized.
Missing output evidence: No finished output from an executed recipe was inspected.

First check — proposed, unexecuted

Status: proposed_unexecuted
Synthetic fixture: An invented buyer earns 20 units on 10 shares; a target earns 4 units. One case adds two buyer shares; another uses cash with an unspecified interest effect.
Acceptance checks: Show 12 shares in the stock case.
Mark the cash case incomplete.
Keep a zero-synergy case alongside the optimistic case.
Stop conditions: Stop before using real terms or recommending whether to transact.

Tasks: Money & accounting Sales & outreach Data & analysis

Useful for: General use

Editorial relevance from the title and source-supported actions; not evidence of the operator’s occupation.

Hermes AgentIndependent testing: No

Failure handling, costs and limits

Failure signals and proposed responses

Signal
New shares omitted
Why it matters
Per-share earnings are overstated.
Proposed response
Rebuild the share bridge.
Signal
Synergies start immediately
Why it matters
Timing can reverse results.
Proposed response
Separate ramp-up from target benefits.

Effort and cost — unknown

Setup work: Prepare scoped inputs and an independent reviewer-owned answer key.
Ongoing review: Recheck changed assumptions against the original acceptance checks.
Unknowns: Unknown: setup effort, usage charges, review time and reliability; no savings established.

Limits

This proposed offline check establishes neither live compatibility nor successful implementation.

Full source evidence

Official recipe · Tool workflows

Original task title: Model the earnings consequences of an acquisition

Editorial candidate. This is source-backed reporting or a documented workflow. BotCurrent has not independently tested this task. A proposed Canadian adaptation is not evidence of a Canadian deployment or compliance certification.

Original source

https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/blob/main/optional-skills/finance/merger-model/SKILL.md ↗

Attributed to: Anthropic (adapted by Nous Research)

Official recipe

Original action type: tool_action
What the source reports: Builds an acquisition workbook covering funding, combined per-share earnings, deal sensitivities and synergy break-even, with a consequences summary.
Source outcome limits: Recipe only. Accounting treatment, jurisdiction-specific rules and forecast credibility require qualified review. No independent execution test.
Evidence attribution caveat: This official recipe describes a procedure; it does not prove successful execution or independently reproduced results.
Source approval description: Source requests input gathering and marks unsupported numbers; no explicit stage-by-stage user approval gate is stated.
Named tools: Hermes Agent; merger-model
Model or version: Skill 1.0.0; agent runtime/model unknown
Publication date: Unknown
Source last checked: 2026-10-14
Demonstrated in Canada: Unknown
Canadian availability: Unknown
Proposed Canadian adaptation: Proposed: review local requirements and approved data scope before any use.
Recommended approval boundaries: Approve assumptions, data sharing and professional review; negotiation, investment and transaction decisions remain with people.