Home Depot announced an all-cash deal to acquire SRS Distrib…

Home Depot announced an all-cash deal to acquire SRS Distribution for $18.25Bn. The press release says “This transaction is expected to be dilutive to earnings-per-share (EPS) from a GAAP perspective due to amortization expense, but accretive from a cash EPS perspective in the first year, post-closing, excluding synergies.” What explains how this could be true? Choose all that apply.