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. .

Marketing 130

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. In closing, I also want to dispense with the notion that data is objective and that numbers-focused people have no bias.

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Valuation Currencies Numbers Corporate Finance 52

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.

Hurdle Rate 80

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 86

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. So, how far has accounting come in bringing intangible assets on to balance sheets?

Valuation 104

Valuation Profit and Loss Accounting Investments 104

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.

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Financial Reporting Valuation IFRS GAAP 40

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Using the words of IFRS (1.7), ‘ Information is material if omitting, misstating or obscuring it could reasonably be expected to influence decisions that the primary users of general purpose financial statements make on the basis of those financial statements, which provide financial information about a specific reporting entity ’.

Profit and Loss 70

Profit and Loss Accounting Numbers IFRS 70