Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The resulting debate among accountants about how to bring intangibles on to the books has spilled over into valuation practice, and many appraisers and analysts are wrongly, in my view, letting the accounting debate affect how they value companies.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Setting the Table As with any valuation, the first step in valuing Airbnb is trying to understand its history and its business model, including how it has navigated the economic consequences of the COVID. The Valuation To value Airbnb, I will follow a familiar script, at least for me.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Valuation Investments Numbers 52

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

And interestingly, I’m happy to come back to these things I learned in helping companies through mergers, particularly around things like communications and shareholder relations, and employee engagement that have now served me really well, couple decades later in my career. Goods are still being moved around the country. Cambridge U.K.,

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Or should I have the advisors not worry about the workflows, communicate with their CSA the way that they prefer to communicate with the CSA, and then have the CSA spend the time putting the workflow together, and then let the advisor go on to the next client and give that very high-level customer service that are clients are very used to having?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

That explaining that process and communication to people built confidence. And since we’re looking for narratives as opposed, and then do valuation work second as opposed to cheap, we don’t screen. Like these companies could announce almost anything other than a sale of the company and nobody and nobody would notice.

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