The Standards Board and the Professional Board of the International Valuation Standards Council met in London March 15-17, 2012. I attended the Professional Board meeting for the first time since I was appointed to that board last November. It is an interesting time. A great deal is going on in the world of international valuation […]
Read more »Buy-sell agreements are helpful and used in every industry where different owners have potentially divergent desires and needs – and that includes every industry I have seen to date. Characteristics of Companies with Buy-Sell Agreements Companies that most need and most frequently employ buy-sell agreements tend to share the following characteristics: They have substantial value. […]
Read more »An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) can be complicated combination of employee benefits, employee motivation, succession planning and corporate finance. If you know a bank CEO, COO or CFO or a director of a financial institution, you would do them a favor by sending this post to them. Mercer Capital, in conjunction with Corporate Capital […]
Read more »Some time ago, an attorney called saying he was in the midst of a negotiation with the Internal Revenue Service regarding the enterprise value of a business. The company was in a cyclical industry and the appraiser had used a ten year analysis of historical earnings in developing his estimate of earning power for capitalization. […]
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