• Practice Management - QuickRead Top Story

    What Professional Services Firms’ Websites Get Wrong

    Five Ways Professional Services Websites Fall Short (Part I of II) Business leaders today know that how a firm’s website is planned and organized matters more than ever. What worked well enough five years ago to separate your firm from your competition may simply not work today. At Hinge, we audit hundreds of professional services websites a year—and we see many of the same mistakes repeated. In this article, I will explore five of the most fundamental mistakes professional services firms make long before a single page has been designed and published. Whether it was due to a broken planning…

  • Accounting - QuickPress

    Lower Valuations for Private Companies?

    A recent survey of investment professionals in the CFA Institute reports investor concerns about the use of different accounting standards and rules for SMEs under IFRS and private companies under GAAP.  Karolina Grabowicz, a financial analyst with Mercer Capital, reports how the use of different standards adds complexity and costs to financial reporting.  Issues also arise over the loss of information due to private company accounting standards that could lead to lower valuations. Read more about the results of this report in the Mercer Capital’s Financial Reporting article, Lower Valuations for Private Companies? This article is republished from Mercer Capital’s…