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What is Due Diligence? Due diligence is a thorough investigation service of a business by a potential buyer, to establish value, assets, liabilities, potential and the associated risks....more
Why do many business owners undervalue accounting and the profound financial impact it can have on your business operations and profit? Business in 2025 moves at an incredible rate of speed, and the complexities of managing...more
On September 13, 2024, in the Federal Register, the Treasury and IRS published proposed regulations implementing the corporate alternative minimum tax (“CAMT”). Its 182 pages (including 62 pages of preamble) describe a...more
Many business owners and executives fail to realize that accounting is the information connection within your own business. Accounting doesn’t simply capture the box scores of your company’s business transactions. A...more
It's astonishing how many business owners undervalue accounting and its profound financial impact on business operations, transactions, taxation, and profit. An effective accounting strategy captures the information required...more
This memorandum outlines key considerations from White & Case's Public Company Advisory Group for foreign private issuers ("FPIs") during the 2024 annual reporting season, divided into two sections: Form 20-F Housekeeping...more
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has issued a new accounting standard to improve the accounting for and disclosure of certain crypto assets. The new standard marks a significant change in how companies...more
The SEC’s Office of Chief Accountant appears to be taking a hard look these days at statements of cash flows. In “The Statement of Cash Flows: Improving the Quality of Cash Flow Information Provided to Investors,” SEC Chief...more
Public companies are under tremendous pressure to meet or beat stock analyst earnings estimates. This pressure caused Warren Buffet to observe: “Managers that always promise to ‘make the numbers’ will at some point be tempted...more
The SEC has just filed a complaint against Sequential Brands Group, Inc., a brand management company, for failing to take timely and appropriate goodwill impairment charges as required by GAAP and the federal securities laws,...more
Recent court decisions - Germany - Cum/Ex-trades spark litigation - So called Cum/Ex-trades have become one of the hottest legal topics in Germany. A flood of claims dealing with those trades has reached German...more
With more than 130 highly trained enforcement accountants at his disposal, Matthew Jacques, the Chief Accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), provided a firsthand glimpse into current enforcement...more
1. Experienced advisors - Choose experienced advisors, including lawyers, auditors and financial consultants (if necessary), and get them involved early. Advisors who work routinely with the SEC and investment bankers –...more
As Christmas Eve approached with vacations and holiday shopping in full swing, President Trump signed the Tax Cut and Jobs Act and the SEC promptly issued guidance to public companies on related accounting matters. Perhaps...more
When it is time to sell a company, there are a number of financial and legal steps a business should consider to ready itself for a merger or acquisition. When the potential buyer is a U.S. public company, that list may get...more
Certain questions seem to recur when it comes to outside counsel’s communications with a company’s auditors about potential exposures as a result of litigation or regulatory/enforcement matters and the underlying accounting...more
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) has issued an exposure draft of a Proposed Accounting Standards Update, Presentation of Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Entities, which would make significant changes...more