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StraightTalk Webinar Series—March 2021
COVID-19 and Business Valuation—One Year Later: What Worked and What Didn’t On March 2, 2021, Jim Hitchner, Managing Member of Valuation Products and more ...
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Anatomy of Saving a Business
Put on the Gloves, Speak Bluntly, and Devise a Plan to Emerge from Chaos The author shares the trials and tribulations involving a troubled company th more ...
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Distinguishing Between Enterprise and Personal Goodwill
Why it Matters Distinguishing between enterprise (or business) goodwill and personal (or professional) goodwill can sometimes be difficult. That disti more ...
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How Fees Help Determine Client Perceptions of Value
Confessions of the Pricing Man, How Price Affects Everything Financial experts often struggle with setting fees for their own services and expertise. more ...
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An Unimpeachable Treatise
Apropos Restrictions of Data, Time, and Financial Resources When uncertainty rises to a level—where facts appear to be indistinguishable from fiction— more ...
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Risk and Fraud
in the Cryptocurrency Economy Although cryptocurrency and blockchain technology create an environment that can help combat fraud within their systems, more ...
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How Open Source Research Can Advance Your Business Intelligence Work
Employing Open Source Data, OSINT, and SOCMINT in the Due Diligence Phase Today’s accountants specialize in document management, research, money laund more ...
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Using International Economic Time Series Data in Determining Lost Profits
Forensic engagements that involve determining lost profits or other economic damages often require a “time series” of economic and market data. When t more ...
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The Intersection of Advocacy and Financial Forensics
The Role of the Expert in 21st Century Dispute Resolution—A Recovering Judge’s Perspective As technology evolves, the role of the expert and the inter more ...
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Money Laundering
In More Ways Than One It seems every few months we read about a financial institution involved in a money laundering scandal. The bank typically agree more ...
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March 2021
These Drivers Quantify the Time and Money You Get from Your Practic Time and money. These are two things we generally want more of. Because they are g more ...
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How Fees Help Determine Client Perceptions of Value
Confessions of the Pricing Man, How Price Affects Everything Financial experts often struggle with setting fees for their own services and expertise. more ...
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10 Social Networking Tactics I Would Use to Build My BVFLS Practice
If I Were Starting Today Business valuation and financial litigation services (BVFLS) practitioners—since the COVID-19 disruption—have embraced the us more ...
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64 Ways to Increase and Enhance
the Value of a Business Buyers look at earnings as a primary driver of value. There are many other factors such as strategic value, competitive positi more ...
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Reconsidering Compensation for Your Expertise
Perceived Value is the Driver Alan Weiss wrote a book titled Value-Based Fees, How to Charge - and Get - What You’re Worth. Even though the book was p more ...
StraightTalk Webinar Series—March 2021
COVID-19 and Business Valuation—One Year Later: What Worked and What Didn’t On March 2, 2021, Jim Hitchner, Managing Member of Valuation Products and Services (VPS), made a follow-up presentation, COVID-19 and Business Valuation—One Year Later: What Worked and What Didn’t. This article summarizes the issues d more ...
Accounting for COVID-19 in Valuation
The Bankruptcy Court Weighs-in In Re: Body Transit, Inc. The Bankruptcy Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania In re: Body Transit, Inc. addressed how COVID-19 impacts valuations. On August 7, 2020, the Court heard and decided the case. This case proceeded under the Small Business Reorganization Act (S more ...
Some Trends
Expert Witness Industry Revenues IBISWorld, an economic and industry source used by valuation and damages professionals, issues an economic report on the expert witness industry. In this article, Michael Pakter, an expert, discusses industry revenue trends—which are mixed—and also how that may affect current more ...
Risk and Fraud
in the Cryptocurrency Economy Although cryptocurrency and blockchain technology create an environment that can help combat fraud within their systems, their introduction into the global economy has opened numerous doors for nefarious activity. This article provides an overview of what is cryptocurrency, block more ...
Small Business Valuations
Using Forensic Accounting Valuing the small business is how most valuators earn their living. These small businesses pose as much issues to valuation professionals as they do for tax, accounting, and legal professionals by providing these entities with advice. The issues are wide-ranging, and the purpose of t more ...
Changes to Stark Law’s Foundational Terminology
Valuation Implications On November 20, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule to modernize and clarify the Stark Law. The Stark Law governs those physicians (or their immediate family members) who have a financial relationship with an entity, and prohibits those indiv more ...
An Unimpeachable Treatise
Apropos Restrictions of Data, Time, and Financial Resources When uncertainty rises to a level—where facts appear to be indistinguishable from fiction—business valuation, forensic accounting, and litigation support must prioritize the virtues of unimpeachable neutrality, integrity, and objectivity. These three more ...
Anatomy of Saving a Business
Put on the Gloves, Speak Bluntly, and Devise a Plan to Emerge from Chaos The author shares the trials and tribulations involving a troubled company that was on the verge of closing and managed to recover. In this engagement, he took the lead, coordinated and assigned roles within the company, negotiated with more ...
March 2021
These Drivers Quantify the Time and Money You Get from Your Practic Time and money. These are two things we generally want more of. Because they are generally two things, we think we don’t have enough of. If you want more time and money than you are currently getting out of your practice, this QuickRead decon more ...
Tax/Personal Financial Planning
Avoid Traps with a Timely Appraisal New basis-consistency requirements make defensible valuations of inherited property even more important. Informed taxpayers are aware that only the wealthiest individuals should have concerns about the federal estate and gift tax, for gifts given and decedents dying in 2018 more ...