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What is in the Purchase Price?
It is all Based on Your Perspective The purchase price of a transaction can look vastly different. Therefore, when considering the prices of various t more ...
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New Detailed Cost of Capital Case Study: Step-by-Step Comparison of the Kroll Cost of Capital Navigator, BVR Cost of Capital Pro, Damodaran Data, and Surveys
VPS StraightTalk Webinar, October 20, 2022 This summer and fall 2022, within the business valuation profession, one of the most contentious issues has more ...
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A Hybrid Approach to Determining Company-Specific Risk
Using Weights and Factors to Quantify Risk This is a condensation of the author’s article, originally published in The Value Examiner, July/August 202 more ...
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Do Not Double Tax Your Business
How the PTE Tax Can Impact the Valuation of Pass-Through Entities This paper explains how the PTE tax in Massachusetts and several other states affect more ...
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The Impact of Inflation
On Business Valuation The effects of inflation on consumers’ spending and psyche are well-known. The difficulties each causes in day-to-day life are o more ...
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Financial Statement Fraud
Taking Another Look at Perpetrators and Their Schemes—Can a Testifying Expert Witness Rely on the Financial Statements and/or Other Financial Reports more ...
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Crypto After the Crash
Strategies for Resolving Litigation Disputes The cryptocurrency market is down approximately 57 percent for the year as of the time of this writing. F more ...
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The Role of Forensic Accountants in Measuring and Detecting Fraud in Employee Loss Claims
With Examples From Asset Misappropriation to Financial Statement Fraud (Part II of II) This two-part article (Read Part I here) focuses on the two sig more ...
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The Role of Forensic Accountants in Measuring and Detecting Fraud in Employee Loss Claims
With Examples From Asset Misappropriation to Financial Statement Fraud (Part I of II) This two-part article focuses on the two significant, but differ more ...
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Crypto Investing, NFT Trading, and Online Sports Betting
Behavioral Underpinnings of Greed In this article, the authors discuss the unprecedented growth of cryptocurrency and the accompanying risks and fraud more ...
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Will Social Media Marketing Work for You?
Answer These Five Questions How do you know if social networking will work for you? If you are using social media and not getting results, are you was more ...
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What Does Your Big Picture Look Like?
It is that time of the year when we take stock of what we accomplished, what we did not, and plan for next year. But chances are, you may be too focus more ...
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Successful Marketing is All About Commitment and Consistency
No matter what marketing strategies we use, we must be committed to them—and be consistent with them—if we want to see results. Intuitively, we know t more ...
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Original Content is Critical to Growing a Practice
How does a business valuation appraiser become top of mind? For an expert to be top of mind in the mind of their target audience, this audience wants more ...
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We are Just Like Our Clients and Prospects
Why isn’t that client opting for the higher level of service? Why hasn’t that prospect accepted my proposal? Why can’t these people see the value in w more ...
What is in the Purchase Price?
It is all Based on Your Perspective The purchase price of a transaction can look vastly different. Therefore, when considering the prices of various transactions, it is important to know how those prices have been calculated so that one has a consistent perspective and is not comparing apples to oranges This more ...
Legal Update
November 2022 The importance of consumer protection laws can seem unfathomable when you see a label on a sweater reminding you to remove the child before laundering, but laws prohibiting deceptive trade practices and false advertising exist because the incentives to run roughshod over consumers are significan more ...
The Unimpeachable Rebuttal
Pearls Clutched and Loaded Have you ever read an opposing expert’s rebuttal of your expert report that left you clutching your pearls the rest of the day? With over 2,000 cases under my belt, I have had some true works of fiction written about me and still can be found clutching my proverbial pearls from time more ...
Financial Statement Fraud
Taking Another Look at Perpetrators and Their Schemes—Can a Testifying Expert Witness Rely on the Financial Statements and/or Other Financial Reports Provided? For more than a decade, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) has published its report on global occupational fraud. The term occupation more ...
The Role of Forensic Accountants in Measuring and Detecting Fraud
in Inventory Loss Claims Insurance claims for loss of inventory are generally examined by insurance carriers. The carrier will retain a forensic accountant who has the ability to quantify out of sight inventory losses. Out of sight inventory losses occur when the accountant is not able to physically count the more ...
Law Introduced to Stop Medicare Sequestration
Valuation Implications On September 13, 2022, Representatives Ami Berra (D-CA-7) and Larry Bucshon (R-IN-8) introduced the Supporting Medicare Providers Act of 2022 (H.R. 8800), which aims to infuse the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) with a 4.42% funding increase for 2023. With a bipartisan coalition more ...
Finding Hidden Assets
Where to Start? In forensic accounting, whether litigation is contemplated or not, the key to the most reliable conclusion is starting with accurate and complete information. Under the best of circumstances, the primary source of this information is your client. On the other hand, when the person or entity yo more ...
Is Non-Traditional Debt Financing Right for You?
A Five-Step Process to Secure Debt Refinancing For anyone dealing with a company that has a troubled balance sheet, maintaining cash flow is critical to determining an optimal go-forward approach. In many cases, the go-forward involves a transaction such as a merger or sale. But, to get to that point, a stres more ...
Will Social Media Marketing Work for You?
Answer These Five Questions How do you know if social networking will work for you? If you are using social media and not getting results, are you wasting precious time? If you are not using social media, are you missing out on a gaping opportunity? The author of this article has invested about 16 years on Li 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 ...