Since the Federal Reserve issued guidance on leveraged lending limits, borrowers and lenders have been interested in the ratio of debt-to-EBITDA in proposed financing packages.  However, banks are supposed to steer clear of deals for which the ratio is 6.0x or greater.  Travis Harms, Mercer Capital’s Financial Reporting Valuation Group lead, explains the topic of earnings adjustments. To read the full artic ...

and the Process for the Valuation of a Closely Held Business (Part 1 of 2) Assessing shareholder value for either publicly held or privately held companies are two sides of the same coin. The U.S. capital markets have undergone significant changes in the past several years. This development in turn has had an impact on how these two types of companies are valued. Valuing public companies can be rather strai ...