Financial Times M&A

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Plus, two credit card lenders strike a megamerger and private lending gets another thumbs up from Michael Dell

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NYT M&A

JANUARY 3, 2024

The move is the printer maker’s latest as it tries to shift more toward its business services offerings.

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NYT M&A

MAY 4, 2023

Hired to help with a capital raise, Goldman Sachs advised SVB to make a move that provoked a public panic and ended with the smaller bank collapsing.

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Mckinsey and Company

JULY 13, 2023

McKinsey’s Rewired distills the lessons from successful digital and AI transformations so companies can build competitive advantage.

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Mckinsey and Company

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Americans 18 to 24 years old report high rates of mental-health challenges, impediments to effective work, and worries about the future, our latest American Opportunity Survey shows.

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Quantive

MAY 25, 2023

The final price paid for a business can heavily depend on the […]

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IVSC

MARCH 28, 2024

He has worked as a property professional for over twenty years in a number of different specialisms, including at DTZ where he became an associate director in both their international valuation and international investment teams, focussing on cross border portfolio valuation and investment.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

At their core, boards are more than a group of highly qualified individuals — they are sophisticated teams, assembled to work together smoothly while bringing diversity of thought, expertise and experience to their oversight role. Directors certainly know how to work in high-level teams. And why shouldn’t they?

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 20, 2022

The ISSB has also made the framework of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) a key part of its work. At the same time, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) is working to establish the reporting standards for the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

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ThomsonReuters

APRIL 17, 2024

Jump to: Perceptions of GenAI How are tax professionals using GenAI ? T raining and policies The future of work New Report: 2024 Generative AI in Professional Services Explore all the latest comprehensive insights into how GenAI is shaping professional services. Will AI replace tax professionals?

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 23, 2024

This post is based on his working paper. Posted by Patrick Corrigan (University of Notre Dame), on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 Editor's Note: Patrick Corrigan is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School. more…)

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

I stopped working for AMCs about 5 yrs ago. However, for the time that I did work for AMCs I’d let them know that if they added any fees for any reason, it was not coming out of my fee. The others I did business with for years until I decided to no longer work for AMCs.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Boards and compensation committees worked to understand talent issues and make their companies more attractive, inclusive, and engaging. While many companies worked diligently on the symptoms, they may have missed some underlying nuances driving core HCM issues. This post is based on a NACD Directorship magazine publication.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

Yes, there are appraiser’s that do crappy work for crappy fees. Eventually they will not have any work because they really don’t know what they are doing and for whatever reasons, they are not trying to learn how to do their jobs better. I lost almost all of my work to someone that uses click forms.

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Law 360 M&A

APRIL 22, 2024

on Monday unveiled plans to buy Nehring Electrical Works Co. Machinery industry company Mueller Industries Inc. and some of its affiliates for up to $600 million in a deal that will provide Mueller with a platform for long-term growth in the electrical and power infrastructure space.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Intimidating appraisers works, and works very well. An over 90% success rate so far. good,” “bad,” “high,” “low,” “strong,” “weak,” “slow,” “rapid,” “crime,” “school district” “student,” “preferred,” “well-kept”, “desirable,” “place of worship,” “student” COME AND TAKE IT.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

Intimidating appraisers works, and works well. ’ This comes from FHFA tying GSE executives compensation and bonuses to their ability to incrementally eliminate the full service appraiser from the process. link] Page 5. Code word; I do not think it means what they think it means. An over 90% success rate so far.

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Lighter Capital

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

In this detailed resource, we’ll explain how revenue-based financing works to help you determine if RBF is a viable funding source for your startup. How does revenue-based financing work? How does revenue-based financing work? What is revenue-based financing? As the saying goes, the devil is in the details.

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Appraisers Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Typically its $100 (low) per hour to $150 for typical GSE work. Normal good quality work takes 6 to 8 hours. Complex work can easily take 10 to 20 hours. We can earn much more doing non GSE non FRT work. As appraisers we try to make a certain gross fee per hour. At 10 hours they are scraping by. Some will take short cuts.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

It is the distinct privilege that the appraiser and the appraiser alone get to make, the scope of work, neighborhood boundaries and comparable selection. In reply to mark robert freitag. It’s the appraiser and the appraiser alone that gets to do this. Not the LO, buyers, sellers or UW.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 21, 2024

It’s not working for society. In reply to Baggins. Statistics haven’t had it easy ever since Mark Twain’s famous “ There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” I think stats can be used as a baseline but not the end all be all. My stats teacher taught me how to bet on race horses with stats and win. But real estate?

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NYT M&A

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

According to its editors and writers, it was also an exhilarating place to work. The site defined an era of feminism for millions of readers.

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Avanade

MARCH 19, 2024

Sean Peterson proposes four ways that you can “microdose” GitHub Copilot (or any similar copilot) — that is, introduce it into your work holistically and deliberately, in the spirit of adventure and experimentation.

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Mckinsey and Company

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Hybrid work. Talent shortages. Polarizing politics. Building a culture is tougher than ever. Recent research reveals the difference empathy can make—as well as how to develop it in your workplace.

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ThomsonReuters

MARCH 6, 2024

Finding ways for people to work smarter is a key goal of many organizations today. Top 3 priorities for corporate tax departments Clearly, unlocking time savings should not come at the expense of quality tax work. AI is adept at supporting both. Identifying and extracting it can be difficult, let alone categorizing it and analyzing it.

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NYT M&A

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Adam Neumann, the co-working company’s onetime chief, has sought for months to buy the now-bankrupt business, but accuses its current leaders of stonewalling him.

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Appraisers Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Appraisers can choose to decline to work with AMC’s. The problem is many appraisers continue to work with AMC’s and sustain the corrupt business model. Boycotting does work and the same affect can happen with the appraisal industry. Boycotting does work and the same affect can happen with the appraisal industry.

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Appraisers Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Typically my experience with obtaining my own NON lender work for years, you MUST be the one to sell those NON lenders on YOU and your work, not some 3rd party they do not know! Most of my non lender work is direct referral from someone who knows me and my work and the person they are referring me to knows that person well!

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Appraisers Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

Yeah, that does not work though. Because three out of four licensed appraisers refuse mortgage lending work due to the amc companies presence, and only half of all appraisers complete mortgage lending work, the other quarter, only if an amc is not involved. In reply to Spencer Paul. And these issues are lending related.

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ThomsonReuters

MAY 15, 2023

Working in the tax and accounting industry can be a stressful job. With long hours, tight deadlines, and pressure to deliver results, it can be hard to achieve a work-life balance. With Mental Health Month upon us, this is a good time to think about strategies to ensure that your teams maintain a healthy work-life balance.

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Appraisers Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The AMC industries is going to run out of steam, for the same reasons that none of you are working; or, they are going to convinced some of you, who are near retirement to go to work for them, and allow your license to be reciprocated across the country and pay you next to nothing. One of two things is going to happen.

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Law 360 M&A

APRIL 26, 2024

Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya said Friday that it's important for enforcers to consider the impact mergers can have on labor, even if they never did in the past, contending that concentration can lead to lower wages and dangerous working conditions.

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Mckinsey and Company

JANUARY 26, 2024

Moshik Temkin explores the traits of dynamic leaders in history and how they worked with power—or in opposition to it—to meet the moment. Today’s changing world calls for bold leadership.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

The other fees are very much there and is another write-off for work, but up until now, it was not impacting my bottom line on each order. I don’t recall the effective date of the changes, but will have to monitor each and every order that come in and do the math on it to see what I’m making or not making.

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JPAbusiness

MARCH 5, 2024

Working capital includes cash at bank, debtors, creditors, short-term credit lines, inventory, and other current assets and liabilities. Having surplus cash that can be used as working capital gives your business more options to grow, invest and change.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

I was working with Solidifi on an order and they did the same thing. In reply to Eric Kretz. Use seasoned landscaping. It was the chief appraiser that called and explained things for me. He hated to make the call and thought it was a joke too, but obviously has to play the game.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

If there is some moron out there willing to work for damn near free, God Bless his or her dumb @$$. Just say no. The fastest way to go broke is running around thinking that you are making money when you are not. It takes far longer to go broke being still than it does spinning your wheels.

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