Most financial statement readers look only at their monthly or annual reports, and most monthly or annual reports present their period data compared against the immediately prior period, or against the same period a year ago. The more enlightening reports compare...
Owners and CEOs of middle market and smaller privately owned companies have to make cash investments in the future of their companies just like the Fortune 1000 do. But they often don’t have the seasoned financial analyst on board to develop discounted cash flow...
We’re all reading about the increasingly common risk of cybersecurity exposure, the bad actors launching attacks from all over the world, and the embarrassing press announcements by companies that have been victims of these attacks. What doesn’t make the news is what...
For young entrepreneurs who launched their companies in the past 5-10 years, grew them through intense energy and hard work, and then rode them out through a punishing pandemic, more than a few of them will be saying today “I don’t ever want to go through that again!...
If you read any of the hundreds of articles on the topic of valuation of privately owned companies, you’ll get a laundry list of important but often esoteric measurements that your investment banker will quote to tell you what they think your company might be worth....
