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Salary Transparency’s Impact On the Future of Labor
With salary ranges being required in more areas, how can executives use these new laws to better their hiring practices?
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| February 3, 2023
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Corporate Finance
Is Goodwill Accounting’s Future in the Past?
Investors don't want to go back to an amortization model, but that's the way FASB is leaning.
By
Vincent Ryan
| December 15, 2021
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Balance Sheets Filled With Goodwill
But goodwill impairments are on the rise, having climbed 23% in 2017.
By
Vincent Ryan
| January 2, 2019
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Tax
Supreme Court Ruling Scrambles Online Retailers
The decision "could turn out to be almost as significant for American businesses as the recent rewrite of the U.S. federal tax code."
By
David McCann
| June 21, 2018
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Technology
Can Advanced Technologies Ease Compliance?
After a decade of improvements by compliance teams, artificial intelligence and machine learning could further streamline the function and tame costs.
By
Steven Bock
| June 20, 2018
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Strategy
Duff & Phelps Expands Globally With Kroll Buy
The combined organization will offer services in valuation, corporate finance, compliance, investigations, security, and cyber solutions.
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Matthew Heller
| March 14, 2018
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Tax
How Will Tax Reform Affect the Cost of Capital?
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will boost the cost of capital even as it hikes net cash flows.
By
Roger Grabowski
| February 6, 2018
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M&A
In Defense of M&A Fairness Opinions
Research disproves criticisms of fairness opinions, according to Duff & Phelps.
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Christopher Janssen
| April 25, 2017
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M&A
Goodwill Impairments Double
Ongoing weakness in energy prices and some large writedowns in tech resulted in a notable year for goodwill impairments.
By
Vincent Ryan
| December 16, 2016
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Risk Management
Assuring Lenders an Affiliate Transaction Is Fair
Doing a deal with an affiliate? Existing lenders or debtholders will require assurances that the transaction is carried out in arm’s-length fashion.
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David Turf
| May 10, 2016
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Growth Companies
Oil & Gas Sees Steep Rise in Goodwill Impairments
U.S. companies reported goodwill impairments of $26 billion in 2014, boosted by falling oil pirces.
By
Matthew Heller
| November 18, 2015
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Risk
Should Microcap Companies Go Private?
By staying public, small companies could actually be destroying shareholder value, not boosting it.
By
Mark Kwilosz
| October 7, 2015
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Technology
Study Links Share Prices, Goodwill Impairments
When the equity market turned around and share prices started moving higher in 2009, using stock price as a key determinant in assessing goodwill impairment became less common.
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Kathy Hoffelder
| October 5, 2012
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