The Finance Weekly

APRIL 6, 2024

This measure is a direct product of fair value reporting, a principle insisting that assets be reported at their market value, which forms the bedrock of financial reporting standards under US GAAP.

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GAAP Accounting Principles Financial Reporting Accounting Standards 52

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Stock prices opened at $15 but popped pretty immediately thereafter, shooting up 56 percent by the end of the first day — and locking Lending Club’s valuation in at $8.5 Lending Club’s valuation never got much higher than that $10 billion mark, but it did manage to keep its share price above its IPO value for the first half of 2014.

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GAAP Compliance Valuation Auditing 73

CFA Institute

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The explanatory power of the financial information reported to investors for market valuation has plummeted in recent decades.

Financial Reporting 52

Financial Reporting Accounting Valuation Performance Measuring 52

Michigan CFO

MARCH 30, 2023

Are your books organized and GAAP compliant? Your CFO can help you set goals for your business in terms of sales, assets, and growth to target a particular valuation. What do you want the transition to look like? What are the key value drivers of your business? What are your plans for managing your debt?

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CFO GAAP Sales Planning 40

CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

Even though we live in an age where user platforms and hyper revenue growth can drive company valuations, that adage remains true. IFRS and GAAP now treat as leases as debt, but that is still not the case in many other markets that are not covered by either standard). The numbers yield interesting insights. .

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Marketing Hurdle Rate Investments Accounting 130

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

To illustrate, consider a practice in valuation, where analysts are trained to add a small cap premium to discount rates for smaller companies, on the intuition that they are riskier than larger companies. It is very likely that these rules of thumb were developed from data and observation, but at a different point in time.

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Valuation Currencies Numbers Corporate Finance 52

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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Valuation Profit and Loss Accounting Investments 104

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Even though we live in an age where user platforms and hyper revenue growth can drive company valuations, that adage remains true. IFRS and GAAP now treat as leases as debt, but that is still not the case in many other markets that are not covered by either standard). The numbers yield interesting insights.

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Hurdle Rate Investments Accounting Entertainment 80

Bramasol

JUNE 10, 2022

For example, a company with branches doing business in the United States and the European Union will need to comply with both GAAP and IFRS accounting principles. The account-based approach uses account logic identifiers to assign accounting principles, such as using unique prefixes to determine which accounts use IFRS vs GAAP principles.

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Accounting Principles IFRS SAP Accounting 85

Planful

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Valuations are a classic example of hole-filled financial reporting. History is riddled with companies that went public based on inflated valuations and false narratives. WeWork expected to offer shares to the public at a $47 billion valuation. If you want to build shareholder trust, start with the data.

Financial Reporting 40

Financial Reporting Valuation IFRS GAAP 40

The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

If your organization falls into the $50,000-$200,000 range but must complete an annual audit for funding or GAAP purposes, it is wise to skip Form 990-EZ and head straight to the full form. . Full Form 990. For nonprofits earning over $200,000.

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Nonprofit Profit and Loss Auditing GAAP 98

PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2016

The numbers are non-GAAP, which would indicate a somewhat clearer-eyed picture of what consensus expects, but still, again, we are in uncharted territory as we have only the second decline in the bottom line coming in recent memory. So, valuations are enough to start people thinking or sweating … and possibly, selling.

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Forecasting GAAP Valuation Marketing 40