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Steps for Becoming a Better Leader for Millennial Employees
With millennials constituting a significant chunk of the workforce, it is important for employers to avoid preconceived notions about this generation. more ...
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SEC Simplifies Disclosure by Public Companies, Money Managers
The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved amendments to Regulation S-K aimed at simplifying and modernizing disclosure by public companies, more ...
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Copyright Litigants Entitled to “Full” Costs, Not “Extra” Costs
On March 4, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Ninth Circuit’s expanded view of "full costs" in copyright cases was improper, going beyond the more ...
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Falling Economic Confidence Now Affecting Hiring Decisions, Says Survey
More than a third (35 percent) of employers intending to hire temporary workers expressed concerns over the availability of agency workers with the re more ...
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Business Leaders’ Top Concern is Moving to a Hybrid AI-Human Workforce
Two-thirds of business leaders fear that their organization could become irrelevant if they fail to move to a “hybrid” workforce. According to researc more ...
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The Most Underutilized Tool in Business Valuation
The Use of Common Sense and Experience The acceptance of tools such as Monte Carlo simulation and Option Pricing models has changed our ability to val more ...
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What to Consider When Divorcing Parties Have
Ownership Interests in Privately Held Companies This article focuses on concepts and issues that are important for family law attorneys to understand more ...
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The Size Effect Continues to be Relevant
Considerations in Applying a Size Premium (Part III of III) In this third and final article, as displayed in Exhibits 1 through 4 in Part 1 of this th more ...
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The Business Will
It is Not Just About Having a Buy-Sell Agreement A business is a dynamic entity. Businesses are fueled by the passion and vision of its owners. While more ...
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The Size Effect Continues to be Relevant
Criticism of Ang (Part II of III) In the second part of this three-part article, Roger Grabowski respond to criticism over the years about the validit more ...
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The Illusion of Value: Everything is Changing
Consider Michael Jackson, the Empire State Building, and Myriad of Value Drivers (Part II of II) In this concluding article, the second of a two-part more ...
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Seven Strategies for Expanding Your E-mail List
Options that Provide Superior Results Compared to Renting Marketers of accounting and valuation firms have long used e-mail marketing to nurture new a more ...
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The Illusion of Value
Everything is Changing (Part I of II) In this two-part article, the authors present some illustrations that indicate the illusion of value of many bus more ...
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Part-Time Accountant
Full-Time Mother and the Firm Perspective (Part II of II) This article is a follow-up article to an earlier article written by Laura Whitman, CPA, MS, more ...
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Make it Easier
For Prospects and Clients to Work With You One of the easy-to-implement practice development tips proposed by the author, who coaches, is this: If you more ...
The Most Underutilized Tool in Business Valuation
The Use of Common Sense and Experience The acceptance of tools such as Monte Carlo simulation and Option Pricing models has changed our ability to value options, warrants, and derivative instruments. The list goes on and on. However, as many of us are fond of saying, valuation is as much an art as it is a sci more ...
Case Law Update
April 2019 In the first quarter of 2019, there were no reported U.S. Tax Court cases involving either business, estate, or FLP valuation issues. Notwithstanding the above, there were several cases that valuation and litigation support professionals will want to consider. In this article, five recent cases are more ...
Expert Witness Exchange: CVAs
and Expert Witnessing In this article, the Expert Witness Exchange (EWE) discusses expert witness opportunities available to CVAs. As a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), there is a vast array of employment opportunities you can pursue. One area that may not be as obvious is the ability to play a crucial role more ...
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 agrees to pay a fine, promises to behave, hires consultants to monitor and report to the regulators, and the scandal is generally forgotten. You may ask what do the more ...
The Importance of Forensic Accounting
Analysis in Matrimonial Matters As forensic accountants, we may be called upon to determine the value of the marital estate. Frequently, we either receive an avalanche of documents or very few documents. How do we distinguish what is valuable versus what is not? Why is the information so important in our fore more ...
Private Equity Investment in the Healthcare Industry
Private Equity’s Fast and Furious Entry into Healthcare (Part III of III) The third of this three-part series examines why private equity and venture capital firms are targeting the healthcare industry and the issues that they encounter managing their healthcare portfolio. Private equity (PE) and venture capi more ...
Improving the Probability
Of a Successful Negotiation It does not matter if you are going to be involved in direct negotiations or negotiating a settlement during mediation, the key is to determine the answers to five critical questions. In this article, Nancy Neal Yeend shares the five critical questions and answers that must be addr more ...
Big MAC II
Fresenius is the First (General) MAC in Delaware History (Part II of II) This is a follow-up article about the first seller that successfully terminated a deal in Delaware due to a MAC clause. The previous article addressed the General MAC clause. This article addresses the Regulatory MAC clause. Introduction more ...
The Illusion of Value: Everything is Changing
Consider Michael Jackson, the Empire State Building, and Myriad of Value Drivers (Part II of II) In this concluding article, the second of a two-part series, the authors conclude presenting additional illustrations that underscore their primary thesis: that in many businesses, value is illusory and there are 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 ...
