Gergory Caruso

JANUARY 20, 2022

Most accountants and related professional practices fail to plan for their business or practice succession or business exit. Fortunately for them most accounting practices perform bookkeeping, audit and/or tax work which is reoccurring and therefore has value. Your practice is the same way. But it does not.

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Benzinga

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a result, we look forward to continuing to deliver best-in-class results with a combined employee base headquartered in Midland, assuring Midland's relevance in the global oil market for the next generation." "I per share quarterly), effective for the fourth quarter of 2023. per share annually ($0.90 per share annually ($0.90

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Audit Board

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

This article will give you four SOX planning best practices to help you have the best SOX year ever. This article will give you four SOX planning best practices to help you have the best SOX year ever. You can breathe a sigh of relief as the weight lifts from your shoulders.

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Audit Board

JANUARY 4, 2023

The most successful companies have a simple process in place to capture the root cause of issues, establish corrective action plans, [and] continually focus on improving the GRC environment,” a PwC study of IT risk programs states. Producing an IT risk profile aligned with the overall ERM program that informs the risk management action plan.

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Value Scout

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Whether you’re an old hand at exit planning, or a newly-certified CEPA looking to expand their practice, a common struggle is finding a tool (or set of tools) that makes it possible to actually do the work of planning exits. Value Creation > Exit Planning. So what does that mean for you as an exit planner?

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M&A Leadership Council

JUNE 8, 2023

Before Launching Your Next Integration Take a Good Look by Mark Herndon, Chairman Emeritus, M&A Leadership Council It’s not a trick question: “How do you know you're ready to launch integration planning?” Our answer? Not until you’ve done THIS – created a comprehensive Integration Strategy Framework (ISF).

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Audit Board

AUGUST 1, 2023

IT Risk Management practices can have a significant positive impact on an organization’s information risk posture, with a focus on inventorying, identifying, and prioritizing risks. In general, IT Risk Management follows the same pattern of risk management practices, with a regular cycle of identifying, assessing, and monitoring risks.

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Viking Mergers

MARCH 8, 2023

The best way to ensure a smooth business sale is to anticipate potential business deal breakers or deal killers and address them before it is time to close the deal. Repeat this process on a quarterly basis to resolve any findings that are not accurate or resolved, and request they be removed from the state database.

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Audit Board

AUGUST 16, 2023

Many approaches to risk management focus on risk reduction, but it’s important to remember that risk management practices can also be applied to opportunities, assisting the organization with determining if that possibility is right for it. What Different Types of Risks Are There?

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Audit Board

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

FRM best practices offer companies ways to handle the most common financial risks, and reduce or eliminate the likelihood or impact of those risks. Financial risk management is a function of enterprise risk management (ERM) that has to do with handling, identifying, and treating financial risks.

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Audit Board

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Would it surprise you that the IPPF does not require an annual audit plan? There are another 25 mentions in Implementation Guidance, but only two about audit plans that “typically are prepared annually” — but may also be multi-year — and “may be assessed annually.”. What Does the IPPF Say About Audit Plans? .

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Audit Board

MAY 5, 2023

ESG Maturity Landscape : best practices for growing your own organization’s ESG maturity. AuditBoard's Claire Feeney and Arsh Kaur share best practices for building an audit-ready ESG program. We can see that a vast majority of consumers really expect corporations to be actively shaping ESG best practices.

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RC & Co.

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

In our valuation and advisory practice , we routinely need quality, timely information on publicly traded companies and on private transactions in the M&A marketplace. We recently received the TagniFi Quarterly M&A Update for Q4 2021. Our go-to source for such information is TagniFi. Most agree that the correction is warranted.

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Audit Board

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Gone are the days of annual or quarterly risk assessments being adequate to keep up. Continuous monitoring — to the extent it’s actually being practiced — largely relies on homegrown systems. But in reality, it’s not widely practiced. Planned corporate initiatives , which all have risks associated with them.

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M&A Leadership Council

JANUARY 3, 2022

It’s not a trick question: “How do you know you are ready to launch integration planning?” So, let’s take a quick look at what an ISF consists of, how it is developed, and how this ONE best practice can put you and your organization WAY ahead of other acquirers. . Before Launching Your Next Integration Take a Good Look.

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ThomsonReuters

MARCH 22, 2022

Here are some things to keep in mind while trying your best to give clients a heads up about surprises: Communicate early about potentially bad news. How they plan to scale the business — up or down — if the right circumstances arise. It’s best to limit this practice to individual clients, as opposed to businesses.

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Audit Board

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Auditors on rotation are also is a wonderful position to share best practices in internal control outside of an audit setting, which has the added benefit of creating some goodwill with your business partners. . Lesson 2: Update the Audit Plan for Recession Risks. Another fraud driver comes from staff reductions.

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Value Scout

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Developing a plan to build financial reserves for the company to be used in an emergency. Preparing a succession plan to transfer control of the company to someone else when you’re ready to retire. Preparing a succession plan to transfer control of the company to someone else when you’re ready to retire.

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Benzinga

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Worthington Steel Will Operate as a Best-In-Class, Value-Added Steel Processor with Blue Chip Customers and Expanded Opportunities in Electrical Steel and Automotive Lightweighting. Worthington to Discuss Planned Separation and First Quarter 2023 Financial Results on Webcast at 8:30 a.m. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept.

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Equilest

JANUARY 22, 2022

And now is the best time to start offering these services. Why Now is the Best Time to Offer Clients Valuation services. Adds Value to Their Practice. Tax Planning. However, their clients likely want and need more valuation services, such as retirement planning. Offering these services adds value to their practice.

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Audit Board

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I was inspired by a recent LinkedIn podcast by Sarah James called “ The Best Way to do Audit Reports.” We have the year planned out in advance divided neatly into quarters and we work systematically to get our reports delivered according to our timeline. Unfortunately, our desire to tell all can obscure our message.

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As I discussed in a recent article , the indicators of investor demand, murky even under the best of circumstances, are often misunderstood when it comes to ESG. It is supported by finance theory and recent empirical research as well as by the SEC’s rulemaking practice and judicial doctrine. ESG Shareholder Proposals. percent in 2021.

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FE International

APRIL 20, 2022

Business owners have always had to be conscious of both macro- and micro-economic factors when planning. With inflationary pressures and increased national debt across most developed nations, many will be making more conservative decisions in 2022 as they expect to bear some of that burden from the government, such as through higher taxes.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 13, 2022

In addition, a week before the 2022 examination priorities were announced, Richard Best was appointed as Exams’ new Acting Director. Rounding out a series of quarter-end announcements from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Division of Examinations (Exams) announced its 2022 examination priorities on March 30, 2022.

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ThomsonReuters

APRIL 13, 2023

For accounting professionals, a retainer may work best if it’s paid on a monthly or annual basis, similar to a subscription. While there are very few “sure shots” in business, a retainer is the next best thing. Here are the top 5 ways to help them make the transition, as well as the “why” and “how” of the retainer agreement system.

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Audit Board

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Before diving into IT risk assessment best practices, it’s important to understand the larger context of IT risk management and even risk management as a whole. Once the risks are identified, IT risk management practitioners then establish security controls and mitigation plans to prevent or limit the impact of those identified risks.

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Audit Board

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Even organizations that do not have to meet this mandate must perform quarterly vulnerability scans through an Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) and conduct an annual PCI Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ). The most recent version of the PCI Data Security Standards released is version 4.0,

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The debate over the “one share one vote” doctrine is not, however, solely jurisprudential – economists have conducted voluminous studies on this subject, and legal scholars have gathered compelling evidence for their own arguments. Yet, sophisticated empirical research has failed to determine conclusively whether the doctrine is optimal. [1]

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The Numbers Since I last valued the FANGAM stocks in September 2020, there have been six quarterly earnings reports from each of these companies, and I report on two key operating measures, revenues and operating income, in the table below, for the last three fiscal years for each of the companies. to 14.9%.

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 19, 2023

and governance” factors that are increasingly used in connection with business and investment management practices. [1] Accounting was practiced and developed by governmental units (e.g., Elizabeth Pollman recently developed a deft history of the acronym ESG, which stands for the “environmental, social.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

This year we were named the third-best place to work among midsized federal agencies, building on our ranking in the top five for the previous five years. [1] Good morning, Chairman Brown, Ranking Member Scott, and members of the Committee. Thank you for inviting me to testify today. The core principles of U.S.

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ThomsonReuters

APRIL 18, 2023

Today, many private entities are in the midst of implementation and are, ideally, looking to public companies for best practices and lessons learned. This has given rise to new growth opportunities for firms, but that’s not to say that accounting issues don’t remain in their daily workflows.

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Shephard Mullin M&A

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

So just as a pilot would perform a pre-flight check before takeoff, there are steps that a savvy buyer or seller of an A&D company can take to give themselves the best chance of a successful and smooth closing. As with many areas of the government, however, delays in this process are common and you should plan ahead accordingly.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 18, 2022

Good morning, Chairman Quigley, Ranking Member Womack, and members of the Subcommittee. I’m honored to appear before you for the second time as Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. It is good to be here alongside Federal Trade Commission Chair Khan. laws became the gold standard for capital markets around the world. What’s more, U.S.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 23, 2023

Depositors lost everything every time a bank failed. But the Great Depression was the trigger for a seismic change. Congress created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) during the Great Depression to stop the rolling banking panic by guaranteeing bank deposits.

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Upon Samantha’s return, he asks if she’s interacting with others. Yes, she responds, with 8,316 others. Plaintively, Theodore asks: You only love me, right? Samantha says she’s in love with 641 others. Shortly thereafter, she goes offline for good. I’ll leave it to you if you’ll be watching Her tomorrow with your Valentine.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 30, 2024

As we look ahead to the 2024 proxy season (and beyond), let’s review the key 2023 trends and developments from activism playbooks, with a sharp focus on the ever-changing landscape in the technology and healthcare sectors. Momentum building for 2024? 4] Activists won 134 board seats globally in 2023, a 30% increase from 2022.

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