Has Work-Life Balance Changed After COVID-19? In this article, the author shares a personal story regarding how the COVID-19 outbreak affected her role as a professional and mother. The story shared is about perseverance and focus, and emerging emotionally stronger as a mother and valuation professional. Like many valuation analysts, I began my career at a CPA firm. Several years into my career, I became a mother. I was passionate about my work and wanted to continue my career but did not want to outsource motherhood. I gained valuable experience from some of the professionals I worked for but ultimately…
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Digital tools and technologies are now relentlessly and remorselessly transforming how performance management works. Customized and continuous data-driven feedback is becoming a new normal for enterprises worldwide. This feedback appears both qualitatively and quantitatively superior to its performance review precursors and should lead to better outcomes. But does AI-flavored feedback require a human touch to measurably improve its impact? To read the full article in MIT Sloan Review, click: Does AI-Flavored Feedback Require a Human Touch?
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Meet Skynet … Your Professional Role is About to Change! What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? How will AI impact the way we work? Serve our clients? In this article, the author explains what AI is and how the evolving technology will impact our professional practice. The goal of artificial intelligence (AI) in the computer science world is to create human intelligence demonstrated by machines. Once this human intelligence is demonstrated, AI programs would then be able to perform a variety of tasks that, until now, were only done by human beings. AI and the promise of intelligent computers has long…
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What is the difference between a company’s total capital value and enterprise value? The difference between these two concepts is the treatment of cash. In the following post, Z. Christopher Mercer, founder and CEO of Mercer Capital, examines the effect of cash on the relative valuation multiples of three public companies. To read the full article in Mercer Capital’s Financial Reporting Blog, click: Market Value of Total Capital and Enterprise Value: Cash Creates Potential Differences in Total Capital Multiples. This article is republished from Mercer Capital’s Financial Reporting Blog. It is reprinted with permission. To subscribe to the blog, visit:…
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Use Big Data to Improve Performance Using big data to inform business decisions can give organizations an edge over their competitors, IBM Vice President Paul Zikopoulos said Tuesday at the AICPA’s spring council meeting. Ken Tysiac, JofA editorial director, describes how to start integrating data analytics into your plans. To read the full article in the Journal of Accountancy, click: IBM Big Data Expert Shares Tips With CPAs.
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Will Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon continue to competitively price match, even if it’s not necessarily in the downward direction? Barb Darrow, a senior writer at Fortune, discusses cloud pricing and how the changes may affect your company. To find out more on the Fortune article, click: Surprise! The cost of cloud is about to rise.
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The Black Scholes Model The true value of a stock option is often greater than its intrinsic value. This article takes a theoretical approach to valuation that focuses on the time value of money with the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model.
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“It’s a Huge Case for the Patent-Law Community.” On One Side: Google, Facebook, Intuit. On the Other? IBM. “Because the patents are often unclear, there’s no way to know whether an infringement claim by a competitor or a troll is legitimate until you’ve spent $8 million in litigation fees,” said Mr. Schruers Ashby Jones in the Wall Street Journal reports this morning that a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., will hear arguments Friday over a fundamental question that has vexed the technology industry for nearly two decades: When is a piece of software patentable?