Study on selection a target business in M&A of coal companies in Xinjiang based on AHP

The selection of target business is the key point to success or failure for M&A. From the purpose of M&A, this paper selects five indexes and three target companies, and uses combining qualitative evaluation and quantitative evaluation, and gives an example that a domestic large coal enterprise annexes a coal company of Xinjiang, and then deals with more detailed analysis the application of AHP. The result shows that AHP can be used in the processing of M&A to some extent.