Many founders ask the question about the preferred legal form their business should have. Selection of the appropriate legal status depends on a number of considerations.
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Tax Treatment of Startup and Organizational Costs
To qualify as startup or organization costs and, thus, be subject to specific IRS rules, the costs must satisfy certain requirements.
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Asset Impairment: Special Considerations
Many parts of impairment test are based on the concept of fair value. Fair value standard is used as part of impairment testing of PP&E, intangible asset subject to amortization, goodwill and other indefinite-lived intangible assets.
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Monte Carlo Simulation: Examples
A Monte Carlo simulation uses samples of input data together with a known mathematical model to predict probabilistic outcomes.
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What is Goodwill?
In our opinion, FASB’s analysis of goodwill provided in Basis for Conclusion of FAS 141, Business Combinations provides well-structured and cohesive conceptual understanding of goodwill. This understanding can be used in addressing practical valuation and accounting questions related to transactions with businesses.
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Is ChatGPT taking over valuation?
The purpose of this publication is to assess ChatGPT’s ability to access certain valuation information, answer specific valuation questions.
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Backsolve Valuation Method
The main idea behind the Backsolve method is to use recent transaction price for one of the classes of shares, Black-Scholes option pricing model and other additional information that can be derived from company’s capital structure to determine estimated fair value (FV) of equity.
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Estimating Borrowing Rates
Pre-tax cost of debt is used in financial reporting in accounting for leases and application of effective interest rate method in accounting for debt.
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Confusion About Fair Values
Use of fair market value standard of value in current valuation practices causes confusion and results in additional unnecessary work.
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Customer Asset Protection
Custodial or asset protection relations became a more prominent topic in light of recent scandals involving crypto exchanges and how they safeguard (or should safeguard) customer’s assets.
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