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Business Valuations Used in ESOPs
Federal Rules and Regulations Governing ESOPs Business valuation reports of employer’s securities owned by ESOPs are subject to review by plan fiducia more ...
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A Valuation Primer for Renewables
Techniques Used in a Wind Power Valuation Engagement This article is aimed at valuing renewable interests or rights which is straight forward requirin more ...
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Debating the Incremental DLOM
A Nuanced Approach to Asset Valuation Marketability refers to the ease with which an asset can be sold, and the DLOM accounts for the reduced liquidit more ...
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Normalizing Financials in Business Valuation
Using Forensic Accounting Skills to Your Advantage When valuing a business, one essential step in the process is to review and analyze the subject com more ...
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Navigating Capital Structure Assumptions
Ensuring Accurate Valuations with Real-World Testing One of the key assumptions valuation professionals must make is about a company's capital structu more ...
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Strategies to Avoid Cyber Insurance Claim Challenges
Part I of II When companies suffer a cyber incident, they often look to their insurance policy for coverage to help mitigate financial exposure. Addit more ...
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IRS Cannabis Compliance Report, Wrong!! Why?
A Forensic Investigation Opens IRS-Floodgate! In this article, the author critiques the IRS Participant Guide for Marijuana Companies. This 200-page g more ...
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The Difference Between Lost Wages and Lost Income Analyses
From a Forensic Accountant’s Viewpoint Forensic accountants are frequently retained to evaluate economic damages arising from a multitude of circumsta more ...
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Beyond the Query
A Meandering in the Mind(s) of ChatGPT (Part III of III) In the first two articles of this three part series, the author introduced a brief history of more ...
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Beyond the Query
A Meandering in the Mind(s) of ChatGPT (Part II of III) This is the second article of a three-part series. In the first article, the author introduced more ...
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How Pricing with Options Increased My Fee by $10K
Assessing the Engagement Prospect In this article, the author shares how he crafted an engagement letter that enabled him to earn far more than a fee more ...
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How to Get More Work from Existing Clients
Turn Clients into Your Advocates Existing clients can be your advocates and a source for future work. In this article, Rod Burkert discusses how to cu more ...
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How Targeted are Your LinkedIn Connections?
Rethinking How to Connect Effectively on LinkedIn While LinkedIn provides professionals an opportunity to connect, not all connections are desirable. more ...
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Lessons Learned
Memoirs of a CPA on Getting Started in the Valuation and Forensics Fields Edward Mendlowitz considers himself the last of the “expert generalists”. He more ...
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4 Hacks That Will Get Your E-mails Opened and Read
A Call to Action E-mail is our front line of communication. And because of that, everyone’s inbox is overloaded. Of course, your e-mail is brilliant/c more ...
Business Valuations Used in ESOPs
Federal Rules and Regulations Governing ESOPs Business valuation reports of employer’s securities owned by ESOPs are subject to review by plan fiduciaries, government agencies, and IQPAs auditing the ESOP’s financial statements. Each of these readers have their own responsibilities to the participants and ben more ...
Legal Update: September 2024
Connelly v. United States—Do Redemption Agreements Create a Business Liability? Most have some form of agreement and financing in place to address sudden changes in ownership. In Connelly v. United States, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court may have turned many of those plans on their heads. The question before t more ...
The Evolving and Expanding Role of Expert Witnesses
Frequently, the competing attorneys are inadequately equipped to educate the mediators and arbitrators about the salient facts and the governing legal issues in dispute. Consequently, trial courts increasingly have encouraged attorneys to involve their experts in the ADR process. The author describes the expa more ...
Strategies to Avoid Cyber Insurance Claim Challenges
Part I of II When companies suffer a cyber incident, they often look to their insurance policy for coverage to help mitigate financial exposure. Additional external resources also help the insured get back to normal operations. Part I of this series poses several questions to assist insureds or policyholders more ...
Normalizing Financials in Business Valuation
Using Forensic Accounting Skills to Your Advantage When valuing a business, one essential step in the process is to review and analyze the subject company’s historical financial information. This information allows a business valuator to analyze the company’s past performance and pinpoint trends in the busine more ...
Multispecialty Surveys for Physician Compensation Released
An Overview of the Physician Compensation Surveys Beginning in late May each year, numerous industry normative benchmark physician production and compensation surveys begin publishing the most recent year’s reports. When consulting benchmarking survey data for assessing physician compensation arrangements for more ...
Unimpeachable 10 Commandments 2.0
Unimpeachable Neutrality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence The world of economic damage and business valuation is evolving rapidly, with artificial intelligence (AI) poised to become an indispensable tool for financial expert witnesses. As with any technological advancement, its use and implementation wit more ...
Getting R.E.A.L. in Later-Stage, Venture-Backed Companies
A Process to “Right” the Company Often later-stage, venture-backed companies (“late-stage start-ups”) seek advice as they find themselves languishing in the neverland between being heavy on intellectual property (IP) assets and light on commercial products or services. Typically, we are contacted by an invest more ...
How Pricing with Options Increased My Fee by $10K
Assessing the Engagement Prospect In this article, the author shares how he crafted an engagement letter that enabled him to earn far more than a fee he was prepared to accept. Understanding a prospect’s motivation and the underlying facts enabled him to craft an engagement letter that worked for both and ear more ...
A Primer on Establishing Trusts and its Taxation
Grantor Trust—Living Trusts to Irrevocable Trusts and their Taxation This article provides the general rules which are applicable for many and sometimes almost every situation, but with taxes and legal issues there are very few absolutes and almost everything has exceptions. That is why competent and experien more ...