Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Posted by Ted Sikora, NACD, on Friday, February 10, 2023 Editor's Note: Ted Sikora is a Project Manager, Surveys and Business Analytics at NACD. If 2020 was the year of the COVID-19 pandemic and 2021 was the year of building toward recovery, 2022 offered little respite for directors overseeing companies amid a chaotic business environment.

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Benzinga

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global rigid inflatable boats market size was valued USD 1.28 This information is provided by Fortune Business Insights™ , in its report titled, " Rigid Inflatable Boats Market, 2022-2029." AB Inflatables (U.S.) Pune, India, Feb. billion in 2021 and is projected to grow from USD 1.36

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Mckinsey and Company

APRIL 22, 2024

Consumption continues to be resilient, except in Europe; central banks hold interest rates steady due to ongoing inflation risk; business survey respondents show increased confidence in economy.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 14, 2024

The business and risk environment has changed dramatically over the past year, with greater geopolitical instability, surging inflation, high interest rates, and unprecedented levels of disruption and uncertainty. This post is based on their KPMG memorandum.

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Compliance 157

Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 5, 2023

Our latest CEO Outlook is being released amid a business environment marred by high inflation, geopolitical tensions and fears of a recession. They are set on transformative growth via mergers and acquisitions, with a majority considering making strategic deals to propel their businesses. more…).

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Technology 328

Mckinsey and Company

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The global outlook is unchanged despite weaker readings in trade, consumer confidence, and business activity. Still-elevated inflation and interest rates are acting as headwinds to economic growth.

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IVSC

APRIL 29, 2022

Join participants from around the world and hear from leading international experts on topics including the global economic outlook, the impact of inflation on valuation and the cost of capital, and the growing influence of digital assets in the investment world. IVSC Business Valuation Technical Director. Investor TBC. and Germany.

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Trout CPA

MARCH 20, 2023

Various provisions of the Internal Revenue Code that are tied to specified dollar amounts provide that those dollar amounts are to be increased for inflation. In the accounting methods area, those provisions include the following:

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Benchmark Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The M&A market has never interacted with this much inflation before. Inflation is now at a 40-year high. Short answer – We don’t know. In 1982, there was no M&A market.

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Marketability 64

Auto Dealer Valuation Insights

MARCH 18, 2024

Rising inflation has been top of mind for business owners (and everyone for that matter) over the last few years. As measured by the Federal Reserve’s preferred gauge — the personal consumption expenditures price index — inflation increased from an average of 1.5% in 2019 and 2020 to 5.0%

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Viking Mergers

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Running personal expenses through your business may not seem like a big deal, but this practice can cause problems you may not have considered. Here are a few reasons why you should keep your personal and business expenses separate. 3 Important Reasons to Stop Running Personal Expenses Through Your Business.

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Business Valuation 237

Machen McChesney

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act liberalized the rules for depreciating business assets. However, the amounts change every year due to inflation adjustments. And due to high inflation, the adjustments for 2023 were big. Here are the numbers that small business owners need to know.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Widely held concerns about inflation, rising interest rates, and a possible recession combined to slow debt financing and deal activity in the first half of 2023. Private equity sponsors, in particular, held back on debt-financed leveraged buyouts while watching to see whether interest rates (or business valuations) would fall.

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Biz Equity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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Business Valuation 98

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 31, 2023

Enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S. with the Inflation Reduction Act (U.S. IRA earmarked $369 billion for clean energy and climate-related projects, seeking to attract both domestic and foreign companies to establish green energy businesses in the U.S. Toms, Boris Bershteyn , Tansy Woan and Kathryn Gamble.

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Technology 189

Machen McChesney

APRIL 3, 2024

Your business should generally maximize current-year depreciation write-offs for newly acquired assets. These two deductions can potentially allow businesses to write off some or all of their qualifying asset expenses in Year 1. With that in mind, here’s how to coordinate these write-offs for optimal tax-saving results.

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Biz Equity

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Valuation Focus Evolution.

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Business Valuation 98

Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 14, 2023

But as businesses adapted to the pandemic’s “new normal,” and especially as the slow reopening process began, some industries benefited from a recovery that was just as swift as the descent. The recovery from the pandemic has been uneven at best, and it brought its own challenges—chief among them inflation.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 26, 2022

Energy, inflation, cyber risk, and recession are immediate CEO concerns. Just 9 percent of companies in our global survey say the war will have no material impact on their business operations in the coming year, though all companies will be dealing with energy and food inflation. Ray , Ataman Ozyildirim , and Dana Peterson.

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Technology 162

Mckinsey and Company

JANUARY 17, 2023

Global inflation is increasingly unpredictable, leaving companies unsure how to navigate the current environment. What are the effects of inflation on businesses in Asia?

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Machen McChesney

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

With rising interest rates, inflation, and continuing market volatility, tax planning is as essential as ever for taxpayers looking to manage cash flow while paying the least amount of taxes possible over time.

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Benchmark Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Financial markets are improving as inflation slows, and interest rates are expected to see much-anticipated cuts. Additionally, many businesses have strategic needs to evolve and remain competitive; for these companies, M&A deals can be their best friend.

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Marketability 57

Law 360 M&A

APRIL 3, 2024

Fidelity National's top brass recently urged a Florida federal court to toss an investor's lawsuit over a $46 billion market cap drop resulting from spinning off a payment business it had acquired a few years prior, arguing the company can't "be deceived by its own statements," which a pension fund alleged artificially inflated share prices.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In 2022, as both the ongoing direct impacts and unexpected side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to mount, the landscape of the business world is shifting yet again. Against this backdrop, business leaders are confronting a new trust crisis. In fact, business leaders vastly overestimate this sentiment.

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Marketability 211

Machen McChesney

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

An array of tax-related limits that affect businesses are indexed annually, and due to high inflation, many have increased more than usual for 2023. Here are some that may be important to you and your business.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

With rising inflation rates, geopolitical uncertainty, continued supply chain interruptions, and a lingering pandemic, deal volume began to slow significantly as 2022 progressed. Navigating this rapidly-evolving market presents a challenge for any business leader. But since then, the markets have shifted.

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Accountancy Today

JULY 15, 2022

Mazars said the figures come in the face of the highest interest rates in 13 years which have made businesses’ debts more expensive to service and has led to an even greater number of indebted businesses falling into insolvency. Many businesses that were already struggling are now facing a real crisis.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 19, 2023

Kristen Jaconi is an Associate Professor of the Practice in Accounting and Executive Director at Peter Arkley Institute for Risk Management at the USC Marshall School of Business. The past 12 months have continued to demonstrate the difficulty of effectively identifying and managing risk in the global business environment.

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Compliance 239

Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 5, 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine requires business leaders to remain in crisis-management mode. Whether or not it is true, at this stage of the crisis the main role of the board is to exercise oversight by asking probing questions to ensure the company is planning for multiple scenarios, reducing uncertainty, and adapting its business strategy.

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Biz Equity

JULY 14, 2022

Inflation is a serious concern for business owners. Learn more about how (and why) your clients might be affected, and how to help them through our current inflationary environment.

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Mckinsey and Company

OCTOBER 31, 2022

New sources of value are available for businesses that use their procurement function to combat persistent inflation and build resilience amid ongoing turbulence.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 20, 2022

In my last post , I discussed how inflation's return has changed the calculus for investors, looking at how inflation affects returns on different asset classes, and tracing out the consequences for equity values, in the aggregate.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 17, 2023

We are in a tighter labor market with daily headlines of layoff announcements driven by economic uncertainty and inflation concerns. McGoldrick, Ms. DiLeonardi, James Condon , Clare Marshall and Hamm Cooper. People have different concerns today as compared to 2021.

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Marketability 189

Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 2, 2024

A Nigerian man who last year came close to buying an English soccer club inflated his food and agricultural technology business valuations, defrauding Wall Street investors out of millions of dollars, according to a Manhattan federal court indictment unsealed Tuesday.

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Machen McChesney

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Treasury Department and the IRS, on December 29, 2022, released information on the clean vehicle provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act. The new guidance provides greater clarity to consumers and businesses that, beginning January 1, 2023, are able to access tax benefits from the law’s clean vehicle provisions.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2022

Inflation numbers have been coming in high now, for more than a year, but for much of the early part of 2021, bankers, investors and politicians seemed to be either in denial or casually dismissive of its potential for damage. While the implied inflation in bond rates is low, investors seem to be anticipating higher inflation.

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ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 19, 2023

What renewable energy tax incentives does the IRS offer for individuals vs. businesses? For accountants, understanding renewable energy tax credits and how they relate to individuals and businesses is essential in helping clients maximize their tax benefits. Jump to: How do renewable energy tax credits work?

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